There’s Always a Show off
Michael St.Mark 2013
King’s Road Chelsea, appropriately enough.
Work No. 638; There’s Always a Show-off
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London Dada works 636/637; The Art Gallery as Art – Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi GalleryStaircases
( The Art Gallery as Art (1) )
c. Michael St.Mark 2013
Saatchi Gallery stairs, lift and walkway
( the art gallery as art 2 )
c. Michael St.Mark 2013
First in a brand new series of London Dada works proposing parts of the art gallery as works of art in their own right. Here, top, a view of some intrigue from the staircase to LG level at Saatchi Gallery Sloane Square, through a previously exterior / now interior window to an open plan staircase.
In the second work the clean lines and subtle hues and tones of the lift area along with absence of people in this often most crowded of galleries, lends intrigue.
The subtle element of digital image enhancement and abstract crop composition of the tasteful Duke of York barracks conversion/extensions at Saatchi Gallery cementing the works’ aesthetic appeal.
( Original concept “THE ART GALLERY AS ART” TM, by Michael St.Mark and Art Axis, 2012 )
Each work available in a signed limited edition of 50 fine art giclee prints, 20″ x 17″
Introductory early investment price, £290 unframed
Details of print sales options from the London Dada website home page
” The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few multi-millionaires.”
– Banksy, 2005
Work No. 632; Merz Barn Atmospheres ( 1 & II ) – homage to Kurt Schwitters
Merz Barn (as at November 2010)
c. Michael St.Mark
Merz Barn Atmospheres – homage to Kurt Schwitters
c. Michael St.Mark 2010
Elterwater, Langdale Cumbria.
Intimate views into the Merz Barn interior in 2010 during the conservation project by Littoral to sustain and promote the location as an important international arts visitor centre/museum, albeit sadly without its crowning jewel, the Merz Wall, that was formerly an integral part of the structure of the Barn itself ( the entire NW wall ) . The rusted window frame, opening handle, glass panes, sundry wooden blocks and certainly much of the Barn’s stonework is contemporary of the mid 19th century and of Schwitters’ time there,
( For information and history about Schwitters in England, please see the preceding post )
Local slate dressed and crated at the Cylinders estate, ready for transport to the Royal Academy (November 2010), that went to form the reconstruction of Merz Barn outside the very institution that ignored Schwitters’ work during the artist’s brief post-war stay in London.
Image c. Michael St.Mark / London Dada
” First they cold-shoulder the pioneering artist, then long after his demiise
come the heaps of false praise.”
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Update; June 2014
Kurt Schwitters – virtually ignored by the London art establishment of 1946; now the empty Merzbarn – that once housed his “last great work”, the Merz Wall – and its immediate surroundings are being preserved and re-energized by the Littoral Arts project to in future feature a museum and cultural centre to benefit local artists and the Cumbrian economy.
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UPDATE 2018;
Merz Barn Atmospheres II
UPDATE Summer 2018
Q & A interview with Michael St.Mark on the return of the Merz Wall from the Hatton gallery back to its artist-intended exhibition location at Elterwater, by the Kurt Schwitters UK newsletter editor and internationally-recognized KS authority Gwendolen Webster, that was published in the July 2018 issue.
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