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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. 82; Essence of Dada

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Essence of Dada
© Valerie Alexander 2005

Eye-level photo of an ordinary stretch of summer grasses, a foreground patch of which is in a shadow that imparts to the grass a radically different appearance, and that has been randomly created by the photographer herself – thus in so doing producing an entirely new image that contains essential Dada elements

 

Dada is what you can make of yourself ” – Hans Richter