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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. 651; In the Absence of Greatness / The Art Gallery as Art VI

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In the Absence of Greatness ( The Art Gallery as Art VI )
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

 

CONTEXT
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Vacant gallery wall, Saatchi Gallery Chelsea London SW

DATA
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Signed edition of 50 giclee prints on Kodak Pro Endura 20″ x 16″
£385 ( unframed)

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* We’re looking to commission a photo realism painter to produce a scaled-up rendition , in either oils or acrylics,  of this image.
Please send info with examples of work to;  info@londondada.co.uk

London Dada website

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Meanwhile, just around a gallery wall corner…

suicidal art
…. art, it appears, is committing suicide.

“ It needs to be dark to be art” – a dark mind.

Work No. 650; The Art Gallery as Art V

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The Art gallery as Art V
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

( Fifth in the series, positing the art gallery as art in its own right, democratizing the elitist aura of the large galleries )

CONTEXT
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Gents washroom, Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea.
Digital photograph, cropped and color-enhanced.

DATA
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Signed edition of 50 giclee prints, 20″ x 20″ on Ilford Pearl

£400 (unframed)

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Dada website

work 649; Society Now

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  UK Society Now
  c. Michael St.Mark 2013

 

Social commentary work.

Reflection on the surge in population in the last decade c/w targeted government cuts causing greatly increased pressure on jobs, public services, education, housing and lower-to-middle income in the chronic body crush and ubiquitous omnipresent car/truck rampage that is England 2013.

On an aesthetic level the image presents an interesting abstraction of feathery flux within
a narrowly defined color and tonal range.

DATA
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Signed edition giclee prints, W 20″ x H 12″ on Kodak Pro Endura.
£250 ( unframed)

Dada website

“Dada is the revolt of the personality threatened on so many sides, a revolt against levelling, stupidity and destruction. It is the distress cry of creative people against banality” – Richard Huelsenbeck ( one of the five original Dadaists of 1916 )