London Dada work 522/523; Royal Bank of Formica Topboard / Pizza Flyer mid-removal; by Dingo

Latest in London Dadaist Dingo’s Dada Kitchen Landscapes series.

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The Royal Bank of Formica Top board –  with Rachel Whiteread’s post-dated “glass/bottle marks on a surface” Olympic poster featured alongside.
( Watercolour on white Formica with foodstuffs and coins. Semi-permanent work. )
c. 2011 by Dingo

On moving the table top fridge to make room for the table top oven, besides the usual build-up of
stray foodstuffs and sauce stains, Dingo discovers some coins adhered by moisture to the
Formica surface over time. Some are removed by brushing, four stubbornly remain. Their circular
edges are tainted green by the copper within the coins. The surrounding surface is scoured
and cleaned and the area to be featured selectively ragged, to leave an intriguing abstract kitchen
landscape
that has accumulated semi-randomly over the course of about one year.

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Pizza Flyer
c. Dingo, 2011

Additionally uncovered is an old pizza takeaway menu leaflet set solid into the Formica laminate
by moisture. Some top layers of the paper were able to be scraped away after soap and water was
applied, to leave an interesting abstraction, that along with the careful arrangement of the congealed
paper remnants; reveals a work of originality and tactile beauty that seems to house a beguiling array
of fanciful airborne creatures and objects.

New Dadaist Dingo – ” Seeing / Putting the Extra in the Ordinary ” TM

 

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Link to London Dada vs. Wolff Olins Olympic logo Plagiarism proof

Court case

London Dada Work No. 521; Homage to Yves Tanguy

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Homage to Yves Tanguy
( Digital photograph.  Duddon estuary, Furness )
c. 2011 Michael St.Mark

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Yves Tanguy’s 1937 work ” Toilette de l’aire ”

This well-know French surrealist, ( 1900-1955), although obviously influenced by Dali and after being mentored by the Dadaist and early Surrealist artist Andre Breton;  made his mark on art history with a derivative painting style that suggests arcane relationships between imaginary objects and beings set in vast, dreamlike, otherworldly landscapes.

Link to Tanguy’s Wikipedia biog’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Tanguy

A Christies evaluation; http://www.christies.com/features/7952_121-1246-4.aspx

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London Dada work 520; Hi Def’ Interference Newsreader

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Hi  Def’  Interference Newsreader
c. 2011 Michael St.Mark

( The interference in your world, from the jaundiced lips of newsreaders, is highly defined.
Clickon a pixel to upgrade to the 10″ screen. )

Link to first in the series;
http://londondada.blog.co.uk/2008/09/24/work-no-328-hi-def-interference-4773047/

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Link to London Dada vs. Wolff Olins Olympic logo litigation.
http://londondada.blog.co.uk/2011/07/27/one-year-to-the-olympics-one-year-of-litigation-11555610/