Lifting the lid on Male Adolescence
c. 2011 Michael St.Mark
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Lifting the lid on male adolescence. London Dada work 548.
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Holding a torch to corporate plagiarism in art.
Lord Coe proudly brandishing the newly designed London Olympic torch yesterday.
” London doesn’t do bland ” … sure – and its Olympic Commitee doesn’t do honest.
Section from artwork INFINITUDE II, alongside the Wolff Olins 2012 Olympic logo transposed in 3d onto the torch.
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The unveiling of the Olympic torch for next year’s games reveals Wolff Olins’ brand logo cast in 3D and confirming the logo was designed to appear as a relief, casting shadows and highlights, imitating in a yet further aspect the 2006 work Infinitude II by Michael St. Mark. Here we get to see the two alongside one another, with Infinitude II lit by gold light from above, similar to the primary light source angle illuminating the torch logo.
London Dada work 547; Dead Thistles IV
Dead Thistles with Barbed Wire
Michael St.Mark 2010
When all about us are straining at the leash to be cleverer than Trevor, here at London Dada we relax
and contemplate the dead ordinary TM.
Latest in the long-running Thistles series inspired by the artist May East TM.
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