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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. 739: The Art Gallery as Art XI

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The Art Gallery as Art VII
c. Michael St.Mark 2015

Tate Modern facade composition No 1 , Tate Modern art gallery, Southbank London.

Continuing the series from 2013, positing the art gallery itself has become art; thereby disenfranchising the cronyistic culture of  exclusivity, discrimination and one-upmanship that  the heads of  these establishment institutions  practice and thereby democratizing art, bringing it within the reach of everyone.
Democratizing Art “ TM  ( A term now widely used – and abused – throughout the art world, coined by
artist Michael St.Mark in 2012  )

Edition of 50 Lightjet fine art prints on archival Pro Endura
28″ H x 19″W
£350 ( unframed)

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Linkback to former Works in our Democratizing Art series.

About London Dada

Work No. 738: And We Call this Living II & III

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  And We Call this Living II
  c. Michael St.Mark 2015

All-day breakfast cafe, Enfield Middx. From 2012

The enemy within
The Enemy Within
c. Michael St.Mark 2015

In a well known fast food outlet. Thamesmead SE2
( White flour/ bread / pasta/pizza – even more harmful than sugar and a major cause of obesity.)

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Second & third in our series, exploring public lifestyle choices in 21C UK.
Linkback to first in the series.

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Two editions of 25 signed Lightjet prints on Ilford Pearl / Acrylic glass
24″W x 16″ H
24″ x 24″
£450 ( unframed)

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For the Dadaist, art is not an end in itself, but an opportunity for true perception and criticism
  of the times we live in”
– Hugo Ball, founder and father of Dada

Work No 737: My Beautiful Life II


My Beautiful Life II
c. Michael St.Mark 2015

Winter tenements; Barrow Island, Cumbria. From 2010

Second in the series. Linkback to Work No. 410; MBL (2009)

Edition of 25 Lightjet prints on Kodak Pro Endura
24″W x 18″ H
£400

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” I’m beginning to feel the present relentless wretchedness of life pushing me, inexorably, into some vast, vast nothingness – yet curiously, amazingly; its name is freedom” – M. St.M  2010