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The Constructivist-study- (Oil on hardened cardboard on plywood, 30.5cm x 43cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

“This small painting is a study for a much larger painting. I hardly ever do a study but with this particular composition i needed to figure out the exact position of each element. My idea was to interlock 2 ‘Question

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‘Lines’ Painting No.3 (Oil on burlap, 140cm x 100cm, Dirk Marwig 1996) -older work-

“Little by little I’m finding photos of my earlier work and uploading these onto my website. This one is the third “Lines” painting i did in 1996. I believe that it is in the Nikolaus Fischer private collection in Germany.”

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Mind Cleaner (Oil on canvas, 122cm x 244cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)

“I just found the file of “Mind Cleaner” from 2008-this painting wasn’t on the site, I don’t know why. It’s a big painting that i made to clean my mind of all noise- to look at it really relaxes you

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Cartography, Organic, Random Close-up lower bottom left (Dirk Marwig 2013)

“This is a close up of the lower left bottom of the painting.”

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Cartography, Organic, Random Close-up mid section (Dirk Marwig 2013)

“This is a close-up of the mid-section of the painting “Cartography,Organic,Random”- total chaos.”

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Cartography, Organic, Random (Oil on plywood, 94.5cm x 75.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

“I have always loved maps. Without thinking i started scratching thousands of lines all over the plywood board- added some colour and at the end of the day some kind of map appeared. Then the real work began: organizing the

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Magic Square (Oil on wood panel, 60cm x 60cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

“I used 8 colours in this painting -you can see them diagonally from the top left going down to the bottom right- then I made a grid of 64 squares and only using these 8 colours,mixing them with each other

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For Love (Unfinished draft – oil + gesso on wood panel, 94.5cm x 76.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

This pic was taken in my studio before going to Germany and Spain (July 18 2013). The painting still has to be painted out in oil when i come back in August. The painting consists of 2 red lines which

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Summer Camp (Oil on Wood Panel, 56.7cm x 91.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

-As you can probably tell: I used the same 8 colours here as in the painting “Magic Square”!

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Predator (Oil and ink on wood panel, 51cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

I had this painting sitting in my studio for almost 2 years. Every time I looked at it I thought that it was finished, but because it was so dark I always wanted to ‘change’ it somehow. But I never

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