Dirk Marwig

DON’T BE AGENTIC. ALWAYS QUESTION AUTHORITY. NEVER OBEY ANYONE (unless they hold a gun to your head). ALWAYS THINK AND REASON. BIO: Dirk Marwig (German; 30 May 1960) is a German multifaceted artist (painter, creator and maker of “Objects” and Constructions, designer and crafter of furniture and jewelry; an autodidactic ”Jack of all Trades and the Master of Many”) born in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Dirk Marwig represents the ‘complete’ artist, a modern renaissance-man, his art being a lesson in lysergic geometry, a continuous, subtle yet energetic ‘back and forth’ between Reason and Unreason, always sublimely surprising, entertaining, and dazzling the spectator, always questioning the Status Quo. Dirk Marwig's art differs from most of his contemporaries in that he does not rely on a single, specific, easy to recognize and repetitive “Formula” or “Recipe” to express his ideas. Repetition is not part of his repertoire. He works by himself in order to keep the ‘result’ a pure work of his. Risk, the search for a new form of expression, and the challenge that comes with it, in combination with bold trust in his own basic instincts form part of his process. To confuse and to surprise himself and therefore his audience is how Dirk Marwig achieves to maintain a high level of freshness and childlike innocence in his work. His art is therefore in a constant state of evolution. Coming in contact with his work, characteristics such as the unusual technique, the handcrafted perfection, the attention to detail, texture and composition, the format, the humor or the tragedy, the hidden mathematics and messages, the creative geometry with exquisite use of color combined with eternal humanistic themes, astound and baffle the spectator.