Author Archives: Michael St.Mark

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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 No. 856; Elvis Mirrored – how the famous see/saw themselves

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The Elvis Everyday

The Elvis Everyday TM / Elvis Mirrored
Michael St.Mark 2016

 

Continuing with the second in the ground-breaking new London Dada series portraying the rich and famous past & present how they appear / appeared to themselves in their Everyday TM.

Elvis publicity photo from the 1950s, reversed & in a 4-stage digital manipulation sequence.

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( The term ” The Everyday”, now in common use – esp within the mainstream advertising sphere – was coined by Michael St.Mark in 2012 through Work No. 604: The Everyday )

London Dada Work No 855; Levine Queen Mirrored – how the famous see themselves I

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Levine Queen mirror image

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Levine Queen Mirrored
( As the Famous See Themselves 1 )
Michael St. Mark 2016

First in a ground-breaking London Dada series, portraying mirror images of the rich and famous past and present. A fascinating glimpse into their personal worlds – the subtle difference from the ubiquitous press photographs we’re all familiar with; to how they’re accustomed to seeing themselves in their Everyday mirrors.

Reversed digitally-manipulated and appropriated image derived from Chris Levine’s Time cover image of The Queen from 2012.

Taking the artist @chrislevine Chris Levine’s famous rendition of Queen Elizabeth II and reversing it in a mirror to give an impression of how her Majesty’s face would have familiarly appeared to her in the royal looking glass each day.
Part of the series ” How the famous see themselves, related to our other “Artists as they were” series; reversing images of old masters’ self-portraits in order to reveal a closer accuracy as to how they actually appeared to others in the day.

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Available shortly in a signed edition of x 25 Chromaluxe prints on aluminium
24 ” x 19″
( unframed )
£1580

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Work 854 & 854a; The Cartoonist Alien-ated

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The Cartoonist Alien-ated
Michael St.Mark 2016

Diptych of sequenced digital image manipulation of Peter Brookes, cartoonist with The Times newspaper. In response to his recent depiction of Jeremy Corbyn as ET

 

 

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Acrylic and screenprints on hand torn archival paper 30cms x 30cms & 222cms x 22cms
Signed on recto; signed and dated with serial number on the reverse; accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity with corresponding serial number, artist’s thumbprints.

Link to first in the series; Work 790 from 2015, How to Scrunch a Cartoonist