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The Irrelevance of Everything (Oil on cotton cloth mounted on plywood, 36.3cm x 51.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

Time, Space, basically Everything is Irrelevant. Important is that you feel alive, now.

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Dirk Marwig ‘All work from 2016’ (Paintings, Drawings, Objects, Woodcuts and Furniture)

2016 was a very strange year for me. Nevertheless 31 pieces came into being. All work shown in the sequence of their creation from the Top Left(older) to the Bottom Right(newest). My mind works in a peculiar way, as you

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Two Girls on a Red Horse (Oil on plywood board, 105.8cm x 75.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

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Happy House(Oil on old dishrag, 33.5cm x 52cm, Dirk Marwig 2008-2016)

This is a rework of a painting from 2008 which was never really finished. I intensified the colours, mounted it on a 6mm board and flipped it.

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Face Off (Oil on canvas, 167.5cm x 106.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Flat as a floor plan: the architecture of strategy mixed with uncertainty in a “one on one” Face Off.

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Thriving in Exile (Oil on plywood, 52cm x 84cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

…Based on the “Golden Section”, of course.

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Pizzazz (Oil on canvas, 95.5cm x 154.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

It’s the 13th of July and I’m still so very slow working due to my knee injury but today I finally finished this new painting. Highly my kind of “deconstructivism” showing my idea of cool “Pizzazz”ness. This painting is based

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ORIWAKO (Oil on wood panel, 91.5cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

This painting was in my studio for more than a year and yesterday I finished it adding the last few essentials it needed. While I was working on it the name “Oriwako” kept going through my mind. I later looked

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Reach You With My Mind (Oil on plywood-irregular pentagon shape, 45.5cm x 71.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

This painting looks like as if it has been photographed close-up style with a ‘wide angle macro’ lens. But it’s not. This is what the painting actually looks like when photographed from a straight-on position. The irregular pentagon shape is

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“I Will Always See You” (Chinese ink and gesso on paper, mounted on plywood, 76.8cm x 54.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

This photo shows the entire painting: The “outside” edges are perfectly ‘squared’ but the ‘paper part’ is “off” on purpose.

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