Dada in London, work 550; Remembrance day – lest we forget political hypocrisy on wheels.

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Remembrance Day – Lest we Forget Parliament’s war guilt.
by Michael St.Mark, 11th November 2011

Mixed media digital collage

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Alongside naturally remembering the fallen from the two wars of 1914-18 and 1939-44, the artist asks that we remember the responsibility that Parliament should have in ensuring war is an absolute last resort as opposed to what’s actually transpired during the past 10 years – MPs tamely waving through highly questionable legislation, each in order to protect their own long-term political careers at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths in foreign lands.
( RIP Robin Cook MP, one of the few with principles.)

* This London Dada moral protest artwork is dedicated to the 564 British soldiers killed and nearly 10,000 injured to date in the Iraq and Afghanistan  wars, that were jointly instigated by the GW Bush-appeasing Tony Blair, based on transparently dodgy evidence of WMD / terrorist threat.
The two subsequent phony and illegal wars approved in Parliament by typically spineless MPs from both main parties, 2002/3.

( Michael St.Mark proposes new accountability legislation that decrees any future Prime Minister taking this country to war must personally serve alongside front line troops for a minimum of six weeks after commencement of hostilities )

 

Something for the end of the weekend – two Olympic posters of creative paucity… and a licence to print money.

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Tate Britain – stone wall ediface home to the cosied-up English art establishment..

Officially unveiled within the hallowed and pompous marble halls of Tate Britain today, the six winning
Olympic posters – a mini genre traditionally associated  with the run-up to the games. Focusing on two
of the works, now plastered on sundry walls over London and sold in limited edition print runs at
several hundred pounds sterling a piece…. ker-ching.

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New Dada artist Dingo‘s October 10th work Bank of Formica Topboard (crop),  alongside Turner prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread’s Olympic poster,  which she connects somewhat tenuously with future memories of medal-winning celebrations in mind, hence the multiple drinks glasses/bottles ring marks upon a white ( Formica?) surface. Hmm. 
And, far right, the legendary Olympic rings brand, indicating the amount of novel thought involved in the poster’s creation.
At any rate, Whiteread’s rather drab effort still appears to be getting all the merits for “most original” of the 6 posters, that have
overall received something of a pasting from art critics.

Link to the gallery page
http://londondada.blog.co.uk/2011/10/10/london-dada-work-522-bank-of-formica-topboard-by-dingo-11993809/

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Another of Dingo’s creations, Nowt ( “New Dada blue period” ) from a year ago ( far left ) … and painter Howard Hodgkin’s winning Olympic   poster ” Swimming”. ( *nb. note the identical shades of blue that Hodgkin used, as well as ultra simplicity of the work ).

Linkback to the gallery page
http://londondada.blog.co.uk/2010/12/10/london-dada-work-417-nowt-10155419/

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London Bridge,
November 5th 2011.

London Dada work 546; Supermarket Juxtaposition, Installation no 4; Princess Peppa’s Parents


Princess Peppa’s Parents
– Temporary Juxtaposition INstallation no 4 – Sainsburys, Tower Hamlets, 4th Nov 2011
( Childrens’ toy pig-based playset set into pork meat fridge section. Two-image work documenting the installation )
c. Michael St.Mark 2011. Titled by Dingo.

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The work determines to highlight the grim plight of factory-farmed animals, in stark contrast with
the  innocent image of farming and of animals imputed into children via toys and games.

Presented in twin image photo print format;

In what we believe to be the first works in a new genre within Installation Art;
deliberately selected items from separate product aisles within a large
public retail environment are brought together and juxtaposed so as to create
surprise thought-provoking dichotomies in the minds of unsuspecting
passing shoppers, and in so doing breaking down preconceptions from
advertising or brand image; revealing certain uncomfortable – or humorous – realities

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