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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.

London Dada Work 253 / 253a – Six Solid Ghosts / Six Career Artists

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6 solid-ghosts

Six Solid Ghosts
c. Michael St.Mark 2006

Themes
The artwork comments on the fleeting nature of human life, the atomic transparency of the human body, and the cyclic relationship between life and death, reincarnation, and the body as a temporary vessel – Gemini

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CONTEXT
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Hexaptych presentation of six covert digital images of random passers-by at dusk( open aperture / 1/8sec ).
Hampstead High Street, London NW3, August 2006

First in our Human Condition series, setting a trend in the art mainstream.

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Commenting on the temporal nature of human existence in comparison to the relative longevity of their urban surroundings; Six Solid Ghosts hints at the transparency of the physical body at the atomic level – that in fact, we are not as solid as we imagine.
A further dimension is intended by the title in suggesting we are little more than isolated wandering spirits body-hopping from life to life; repeatedly trapped in decaying flesh and blood cages; raising age-old questions on the subjects of reincarnation and the interwoven nature of life and death.
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DATA
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Hexaptych. Signed edition of 50 Lightjet prints on Ilford Pearl, 24″ x 20″
£450 ( unframed )

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Update in the genre ( 2010 )
E11even Solid Ghosts

– Specific photo format genre established by Michael St.Mark, 2010 –

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Time Lapse West Village ( 2019 )
by Xan Padron

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Further update, 08/09/2018

Six Career Artists ( trapped in creative stasis ) Aspire to Greatness
© Michael St.Mark

” Six Career Artists refers to a work by Michael St.Mark, a contemporary artist associated with the online London Dada art collective. It is a 2006 -2007 piece that critiques the art establishment through a series of digital images and related texts “ – Gemini

Click through X 2 to enlarge the creepy crawlies and read the secret unspoken rules for becoming a recognized art great.

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LONDON DADA

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As well as accessing the vast archive of New Dada works from various artists by scrolling down the Tag Titles herewith on the right hand page. . . .you can now see an expanding random selection on Flikr
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