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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. 840; Dada Calling, Sir Nick

DADA CALLING

DADA CALLING

   c. Art Axis 2016

Outgoing Tate Modern big chief Sir Nicholas Serota gets the Dada over London treatment for services to art elitism.

” 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, co-founder of Dada, 1916

 

Signed edition fine art print / large format postcard details tf.

THE SEVEN TENETS OF DADA

 

Dada over London

 

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Message behind London Dada’s hexagonal green spot icon ( from About Us mission statement )

Dada – cutting-edge scourge of the establishment and undisputed catalyst for the sea change in art that occurred during the early 20th C. is re-surfacing through its missing jigsaw piece London expression – a 21st century cyber and public art antidote for the hi-jacking, side-tracking and stifling of UK art into a tightly closed shop with toughened glass ceiling and run by a clique of old school tie cronies who use money as a means of rigging the art market into turning massive personal profits. Heading a network of kowtowing gallery owners, they render contemporary art virtually sterile; reducing the big galleries to little more than purveyors of the bawdy and the tawdry; selectively promoting through those evergreen guarantors of hype-to-order, the fawning careerworths of the UK arts review media – a harem of hand-picked ‘shock or bore’ cash cow artists.

THE DOORS TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ( an Oxbridge outing )

Work 242 revisited revisited revisited; England Football Fan. + Queen @90 – bring out the Dada bunting

englnd football fan
England Football Fan ( Archetype 1 )
c. Michael St.Mark 2006

 

Reposted from 2006 / 2010 / 2014

How time flies when your national team fall at every tournament,
Lamentable failure to qualify ( World Cup 2014 ) is no bar to the national coach still keeping his job where the cronyistic stuffed shirts at the FA are concerned – what makes anyone think Roy’s boys will fare any better in France 2016… the boy Vardy?
Well maybe, let’s see.

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Update 28th June , England 1 Iceland 2 

The national team in disgrace, Hodgson resigns.
Say No More.. except “your turn, FA.”

 

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The Queen @90 – bring out the Dada bunting!
Completed Work from 2012, Jubilee Subject ( after Frank Zappa)

"Subject"

We only have eyes for Ewe, maaaaam

Capturequeencrowd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

” god save the queen – we mean it, man “