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Nerd -semi side view- (Maplewood construction, 50.5cm x 56.3cm x 7.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

Nerd semi side

My work looks simple, easy, almost basic, …as if anyone could do it. -Hey, Anyone could but they don’t!. I was the FIRST PERSON to to construct, draw or paint “IT” and that IS what counts! I had the idea!

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Nerd (Maplewood construction, 50.5cm x 56.3cm x 7.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

Nerd

The exact same engraving of the grid (with the ‘Golden Section’ as it’s DNA) is on the other side as well, which is characteristic of the repetitive behaviours found in the little (sometimes autistic) nerd with special powers.

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

The Irrelevance of Everything

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

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The Mine (Bic-pen on stretched canvas, 79.5cm x 50.4cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

The Mine
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“Dilettante” side views Dirk Marwig blog March 22nd 2017

Dilettante -side view

Can’t you just picture the Dilettante at the show opening with hands in his/her pocket, posing and looking cool? hah! The slaves of fashion. Ignorant ego-trippers. This is the side view:

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The Dilettante Standing on a Shiny Floor (Pacific yellow cedar and plexiglass, 95.5cm x 21cm x 10.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

Dilettante A+B together

Dilettante: A person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge. In this case: The groomed, posing and ‘vogueing’ hipster standing on a shiny floor at every art gallery opening. He or she

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Untitled 2017 (Oil on wood panel, 94.5cm x 76.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

Untitled 2017

Paintings have a language of their own. In this case words simply fail again.

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VOYEUR (Construction made from a wooden wire spool, 80cm x 111.5cm x 3cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

VOYEUR_HDR

*Six simple cuts were applied to the plywood spool (2 discs) to make the components which then were arranged to construct “VOYEUR”. An almost ‘readymade’. It makes me smile because the distilled result is so multi-layered and congruent, something you

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Box Boy (Wall object-116 pieces of fir wood, 97cm x 72.8cm x 3.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

Box Boy

A module made out of components with a sequence. The generic: Box Boy

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Modern Man (Aged yellow cedar with oil wash, 95cm x 29cm x 13cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

Modern Man A+B

The photo shows both sides of this free standing object.

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