Author Archives: Michael St.Mark

Unknown's avatar

About Michael St.Mark

Conceptual / experimental multi-discipline artist, writer and photographer. Art influencer and founder of London Dada, recalling Dada's original aims and principles as envisaged by it's founder Hugo Ball. Eschews the often politically-motivated taboo on expressions of critical thought within art. Admiring Duchamp in going beyond the seemingly endless infatuation with the ' pretty picture' retinal and instead refusing to accept the standards and practices of an established corrupt art world and creatively stifling conventions that are still considered essential to attain fame and financial success: refusing to repeat himself or to develop one recognizable style to placate the commercial needs of the market.

Work No 745: Welcome to the Machine III. Commuter Descending a Spiral Staircase

Posted on by
3

commuter descending a staircase
Welcome to the Machine III / Commuter Descending a Spiral Staircase
Michael St.Mark 2015

context
_______________________________________________________________________________
Metal access shaft  with helter skelter staircase ( c. 100ft  deep ) incorporating electricity power line;
London Underground; Beckton, E. London

Third in the series; exploring alienation of the human being placed in everyday artificial environments. The urban-dwelling human being is nought but a fragile fleeting blur against his brute steel & concrete impersonal environment

data
_______________________________________________________________________________
Edition of 50 Chromogenic prints on Fujifilm Crystal
30″ x 21″
£400 ( unframed).

nude descending-a-staircase-no-2-1912
Nude descending a staircase
Courtesy Marcel Duchamp heirs

Archive / Purchase info

Linkback to WTTM2

About London Dada

Work No. 744; Follow Your Dream II

Posted on by
2

Follow your dream II
Follow Your Dream II ( can be an uphill struggle )
  c. Michael St.Mark 2015

Motivational Work; second in the series.
Linkback to FYD1 from 2008
” Have to follow your dream to live it ” – M.St.M

Art, for the Dadaist, means ” true perception of the times we live in” – Hugo Ball.

Edition of 25 Lightjet prints on Kodak Pro Endura or Acrylic
24″H x 14″W
£350 ( unframed )

Archive / Purchase details

About London Dada

Work No 743; Resistance is Futile

Posted on by
Reply

RIF
  Resistance is Futile
  c. Michael St.Mark 2015

Toothpaste stack with interloping 3D Silver Spoon bag; 99p store, Muswell Hill London N11
Image digitally manipulated / enhanced.
Purchase info TF

Latest in our supermarket juxtaposition public art installation series where sudden dichotomies are posed
in the minds of unsuspecting shoppers, by re-positioning selected counterpoint goods from seperate isles
alongside contrary products in such a way as to raise questions or awaken realizations, ethical, health- educational or moral, often in a tongue-in-cheek impishly humorous manner. – M. St.M

Refined sugar – white and deadly, it’s worthwhile remembering.

Linkback to previous Work in the series, from 2011.