LOVE IS THE ULTIMATE POWER.
THE QUESTION MARK (?) IS THE GREATEST SYMBOL.
USE BOTH ALL THE TIME AND YOU WILL FINALLY BE. Dirk Marwig (2014)
May 30.1960 born in Bochum, Germany
1966-1972 lives with parents in New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.A.
1972-1981 basic schooling in Frankfurt, Germany
1981-1990 lives, studies and works in New York City
1981-1984 studies Art at Art Students League, (meets Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat…)
1987 works with Marc Jacobs (creates shoes and plastic jewelry for Marc Jacobs’ first successful show-Spring 1988) -his Rings appear on the cover of Vogue (October1987) other creations are featured in French and British Vogue…,he sells at Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys New York also at various stores in Paris and London.
1988 creates the U-CREATE…a “do it yourself T-shirt” kit. It sells (among other stores) at the Guggenheim Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, both in N.Y.C., the Chicago Museum of Modern Art ,the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art gift shops and at F.A.O.SCHWARTZ,N.Y.C.
1990-2006 lives and works in MADRID, SPAIN
Dirk Marwig’s One man shows:
- 1993 Bennassar Gallery,Madrid,Spain
- 1994 Nikolaus Fischer Gallery,Frankfurt,Germany
- 1996 Nikolaus Fischer Gallery,Frankfurt,Germany
- 1998 Nikolaus Fischer Gallery,Frankfurt,Germany
- 1999 Goethe Institute,Madrid,Spain
- 2001 Nikolaus Fischer Gallery,Frankfurt,Germany
- 2003 Nikolaus Fischer Gallery,Frankfurt,Germany
- 2008 Nikolaus Fischer Gallery,Frankfurt,Germany
Artwork
Collections:
Deutsche Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft
Crédit Suisse
Opera Frankfurt
2006-PRESENT DIRK MARWIG lives and works in West Vancouver,B.C.,Canada
-94 of Dirk Marwig’s pieces(paintings,drawings and objects-large and small) are not documented here on this site because documentation is not available(the photos and descriptions have been lost during the course Dirk Marwig’s turbulant life).The missing pieces are ALL signed “DIRKMARWIG” on the back or on the bottom(never on the front,in order not to destroy the composition).
STATEMENT:
My work originates in the subconscious; an idea for a piece comes to me in a fraction of a second. I then browse through my studio looking for a way to express this idea with all the possible means (materials) I have at hand at that moment.
I distill the possibilities, calculating what is possible and what is not. If nothing appears to be ‘possible’ I begin to experiment anyway with the first probable option that first came to my mind when the ‘idea’ appeared. I try out various ways to physically ‘bring to life’ this idea. “Just Doing” is part of my process and by “Doing” the idea turns into something much bigger and something much more interesting then I ever could have imagined in the beginning.
Dirk Marwig May 13th 2013