There’s Always a Show off
Michael St.Mark 2013
King’s Road Chelsea, appropriately enough.
Work No. 638; There’s Always a Show-off
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London Dada works 636/637; The Art Gallery as Art – Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi GalleryStaircases
( The Art Gallery as Art (1) )
c. Michael St.Mark 2013
Saatchi Gallery stairs, lift and walkway
( the art gallery as art 2 )
c. Michael St.Mark 2013
First in a brand new series of London Dada works proposing parts of the art gallery as works of art in their own right. Here, top, a view of some intrigue from the staircase to LG level at Saatchi Gallery Sloane Square, through a previously exterior / now interior window to an open plan staircase.
In the second work the clean lines and subtle hues and tones of the lift area along with absence of people in this often most crowded of galleries, lends intrigue.
The subtle element of digital image enhancement and abstract crop composition of the tasteful Duke of York barracks conversion/extensions at Saatchi Gallery cementing the works’ aesthetic appeal.
( Original concept “THE ART GALLERY AS ART” TM, by Michael St.Mark and Art Axis, 2012 )
Each work available in a signed limited edition of 50 fine art giclee prints, 20″ x 17″
Introductory early investment price, £290 unframed
Details of print sales options from the London Dada website home page
” The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few multi-millionaires.”
– Banksy, 2005
Work 635; Green Leaf Salad
Green Leaf Salad
c. Michael St.Mark 2013
( actual work )
click to puke to go veggie – you know you want to.
Keeping it mislabelling topical with a sumptious blue tray of abatoir-fresh sawn bone fide cow bones & gristle, all undeniably derived or sourced from lush dew-laden pastures. Therefore ” Green Leaf Salad” wouldn’t be far off the label truth…. would it 🙂
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By extreme mislabelling comparison; at Tate Britain, a pensive yet ultimately non-plussed visitor contemplates
the artist’s ‘reasoning’ behind his assertion that a glass of water on a high bathroom shelf
is in fact an oak tree.
An Oak Tree, by Michael Craig-Martin (1974)
( Image courtesy London Dada)
” An Oak Tree” consists of an ordinary glass of water placed on a small glass shelf of the type normally found in a bathroom, which is attached to the wall above head height. Craig-Martin composed a series of questions and answers to accompany the objects. In these, the artist claims that the glass of water has been transformed into an oak tree. When An Oak Tree was first exhibited, in 1974 at Rowan Gallery, London, the text was presented printed on a leaflet. It was subsequently attached to the wall below and to the left of the shelf and glass. Craig-Martin’s text deliberately asserts the impossible. The questions probe the obvious impossibility of the artist’s assertion with such apparently valid complaints as: haven’t you simply called this glass of water an oak tree?’ and but the oak tree only exists in the mind’. The answers maintain conviction while conceding that the actual oak tree is physically present but in the form of the glass of water … Just as it is imperceptible, it is also inconceivable ”
– Tate Britain
* Kind of high art meets mental institution?
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