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The Beauty of the Undefined and Indefinite (Oil on canvas, 204.5cm x 166.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

the-beauty-of-the-undefined

This large canvas invites the spectator to enter and to be part of the composition. This is only a photo but when you stand in front of this large painting, you immediately form part of it and enter the world

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Scavenger (Bic pen on primed and oiled canvas mounted on 8mm board, 46.2cm x 76.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

scavenger

…it’s how it makes you feel.

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

happy-house

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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To My Mind… (Oil and enamel on wood panel, 91.3cm x 91.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

To My Mind...

A painting of my signature ‘irregular Heptagon’ placed on an easel in the garden.

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

Face Off

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

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

Pizzazz

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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Composition for the Hard of Hearing (Oil on wood panel, 89cm x 75cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Composition for the Hard of Hearing
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Flop World (Archival inks on paper, 22.9cm x 30.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Flop World

Confined to the bed and sofa after a terrible “quadriceps tendon rupture” and the following surgery 2 weeks ago (I slipped and fell awkwardly while trying to collect a watering hose on the granite rock in my backyard- in a

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‘Untitled 2016’ close-up (Plywood construction with oil and nylon string, 101cm x 101cm x 5,5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Untitled Close-up
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Folded (Oil on plywood, 58cm x 70cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Folded

-This Painting/Object is about finding beauty and coolness in something totally mundane and insignificant: the random little piece of math paper, “folded” and “discarded” (enlarged 700% and painted on a flat, thin and shaped plywood board).

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