KickstARTing the 21st century

work 663; " Untitled" III

2013-05-20T22:03:59+02:00

" Untitled" III
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Play on the tediously ubiquitous and somewhat pretentious 'Untitled' title, rife within contemporary art.

Continuation of the series - linkback to the previous two works here

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work 662; A Fitting Memorial

2013-04-29T11:16:21+02:00

A Fitting Memorial
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Digitally enhanced appropriation collage comprising image of Mrs Thatcher strategically
superimposed over that of the collapsed Primark sweatshop factory, Dhakar Bangladesh, April 2013,
that killed over half the number of people that died the Twin Towers attack - yet conveniently swept under
the media carpet and, little more than a month on, barely a squeak about the catastrophe out of the Sky/BBC
brainwash media monopoly.

Margaret Thatcher, mother and queen of the unregulated free market and economic growth-at-any-human-cost.
Destroyer of union power and subsequent degradation of workers' rights and humane working terms & conditions.
Personally supervised large-scale transfer of power away from the public to the privileged rich.
The scourge of Thatcherism continuing on and ever-widening in its cancerous scope to this day under Cameron and the
spinless sellout Clegg through pernicious and repressive legislation passed almost daily in the House of Conmen.

"Under ongoing Thatcherism, Factory = Fat Tory dictating to slave worker"

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London Dada work 661 Goodbye Winter / The Human Condition

2013-04-15T11:03:38+02:00

Goodbye Winter / The Human Condition
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

CONTEXT
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Meadow with melting snow. Trent Park, Cockfosters.
( Dual-titled work)

The persistently long winter finally relents, leaving behind a field mostly free of snow except for
giant icy mementos rolled into creation at its height - but that will also inexorably melt in time.
Reflection on the human being's inbuilt urge to create and maintain a record of his presence on earth,
but which however large or grand are, barring exceptions, ultimately desinted to fade into obscurity.

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London Dada work 660; Be a Part of Art

2013-04-14T01:14:48+02:00

Be a Part of Art
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

691 model Maria blends in. Saatchi Gallery, February 2013
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20" x 19" ( unframed)
£220

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London Dada work 659: "Building a Better Britain"

2013-04-13T11:30:44+02:00

"Building a Better Britain"
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Building site construction facade in gold and blue with vacant flagpole and unlit street lamp; Shoreditch EC2

* Representing the idealised, sanitised and politicised front propagated by government,
masking the actual construction (or demolition) work taking place out of public view.
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Siged edition of 25 giclee prints on Ilford Pearl, 30" x 22"
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London Dada work 658; Prisoners of Fashion

2013-04-12T14:12:57+02:00

Prisoners of Fashion
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Optometrists, Barnet N. London

Signed edition of 25 giclee prints on Kodak Pro Endura
24" x 18"
£120 ( unframed )

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Remembering Margaret Thatcher

2013-04-09T09:22:16+02:00

The Treatment Room ( brainwashing a nation )
by Richard Hamiltion ( 1983-4 )

Installation, Serpentine Gallery.

" Art, for us, is not a end in itself, but an opportunity for true perception and criticism of the times we live in "
- Hugo Ball.

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London Dada work 657; Hospitality Declined

2013-04-07T01:01:59+02:00

Hospitality Declined
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Kebab / burger cafe pavement seating arrangement, Shoreditch EC2.

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DaliKrab Day 2013

2013-03-31T12:22:28+02:00

DaliKrab Day 2013

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Crab Boil Fury / Nobody Mourns a Crab ( after Miss Von Trapp )
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

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works 653, 654, 655 & 656: The Art Gallery as Art VII - X

2013-03-30T15:00:47+01:00

The Art Gallery as Art VII. Tate Modern Level 3 ceiling ventilation ducts with strip lights
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Multi-stage image manipulation from original photograph.

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The Art Gallery as Art VIII. Tate Modern Gallery Doorway
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

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The Art Gallery as Art IX. Tate Modern Turbine Hall Abstraction no. 1
c. Michael St. Mark 2013

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AGAA X. Tate Modern Level 3 Staircase ( enhanced )
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

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* All images.
Signed editions of 25 giclee prints on Kodak Pro Endura, 20" x 16" & 20" x 12"
£180 ( unframed)

* This series provides an excellent investment opportunity in a new art sub-genre within the UK expression of Dada, where parts of the major public galleries are posited as artworks in their own right; thus negating, neutralising and democratizing the anachronistic air of exclusivity and pompous elitism pervading such places.

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Jack Frost working late again..

2013-03-25T14:47:53+01:00

Reworking of work 350 from 2009. Topical DN tropical, Mr Frost - although nearing Easter - is enjoying his UK work so much, he refuses to 'pack ice it in' and snow shoe-shuffle off to his polar retreat" noitanrebih " ( reverse hibernation ).

"Art should never lose its playful, humorous side "

Car Roof no. 16,670,654
c. Jack Frost

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work 652 ogitreV II

2013-03-24T23:10:59+01:00

ogitreV II
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Second in the series, with vertigo reversed.
NatWest Tower, City of London

Linkback to Ogitrev 1, a collaborative work with photographer Dean Christopher in 2006.

OGITREV

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Cropped & tonally-enhanced digital photograph..
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work 651; The Art Gallery as Art VI

2013-03-24T10:52:42+01:00

In the Absence of Greatness ( The Art Gallery as Art VI )
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

CONTEXT
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Vacant gallery wall, Saatchi Gallery Chelsea

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* We're looking to commission a photo realism painter to produce a scaled-up rendition , in either oils or acrylics, of this image.
Please send info with examples of work to; info@londondada.co.uk

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Meanwhile, just around a gallery wall corner...

.... art, it appears, is committing suicide.

" It needs to be dark to be art" - a dark mind.

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work 650; The Art Gallery as Art V

2013-03-23T22:30:52+01:00

The Art gallery as Art V
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

( Fifth in the series, positing the art gallery as art in its own right, democratizing the elitist aura of the large galleries )

CONTEXT
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Gents washroom, Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea.
Digital photograph, cropped and color-enhanced.

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£185 (unframed)

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work 649; Society Now

2013-03-20T13:47:02+01:00

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Society Now
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Social commentary work.

Reflection on targeted government cuts causing greatly increased pressure on jobs, public services and lower-to-middle income expenditure in the chronically overcrowded place that is England 2013.

On an aesthetic level the image presents an interesting abstraction of feathery flux within
a narrowly defined color and tonal range.

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Signed edition giclee prints, 20" x 12" on Kodak Pro Endura paper.
£110 ( unframed)

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"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 ( one of the five original Dadaists of 1916 )

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Iraq 10 years on - Lest we Forget. Parliament's War Guilt

2013-03-19T15:21:23+01:00

Re-post of work 550, 10 years on from the start of the Iraq conflict

" Blair, without scruples or conscience, painted bullseyes with the blood of British soldiers and of innocent men, women and children around " WMD intelligence" darts that he knew full well were way outside the real dartboard - all to soak his future Savile Row pockets with dirty oil money" - Michael St.Mark

Work 550. Remembrance Day - Lest we Forget Parliament's war guilt.
by Michael St.Mark, 11th November 2011

Mixed media digital collage

(Click on the image to enlarge)

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 )

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work 648; Watching Art Dry

2013-03-18T15:51:09+01:00

Watching Art Dry / Pictures at an Exhibition
c. 2013 Michael St.Mark

( Outdoor paints testing station, Hastings )
As per previous work - when all the pretty pictures and patterns, dead animals and flashy SFX are done, where might art go next?

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London Dada work 647: When all the SFX are done..

2013-03-09T16:10:37+01:00

When All the SFX are Done..
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

..& now that all the pretty patterns are MOL painted and drawn; it's time for art to dig beneath the surface of things without suffering punitive exclusion from the mainstream media.

( Billboard advertising Hayward Gallery's " Light Show" , Shoreditch EC1.)

Tawdry definition;
" Showy, flashy, superficial... lacking in depth or real meaning "
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More cheap shot gigantism? Hayward SFX from late 2012

Skilled craftsmanship that entertains in a startling, funfair kind of way - sure.
But thought-provoking, challenging? Well....

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..try here

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work 646; Dada Infiltrates John Lewis

2013-03-08T23:25:46+01:00

Reduced to Clear - Dada Infiltrates John Lewis
c. Art Axis 2012

In an information / disinformation overload age where the word, the slogan, has virtually become the thing;
a special offers board comprising clear perspex info holders minus contents provides a refreshing counterpoint.

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work 645; The Coalition

2013-03-07T18:36:19+01:00

The Coalition
c. Michael St.Mark 3013

Found signpost, public bridleway, South Mimms.

The nearer the general election the more disparate policy divisions become both between
and within Tories and Lib Dems, as the fear stench of likely defeat grows pungent.

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London Dada work 644; The Correct use of Sh*t

2013-03-02T19:12:16+01:00

The Correct use of Sh*t
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

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Derivative cropped work 644B;

Parked-up Landy, Welwyn Garden City

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Unframed £170

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London Dada work 643; The Door to Equal Opportunity

2013-03-01T01:05:08+01:00

The Door to Equal Opportunity
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

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Two-shade blue door pair secured with hasp & padlock, Muswell Hill.

Sybolizing the Oxbridge light blue /dark blue old boy
network's evergreen monopoly on most of the top jobs in banking &
finance, media, politics, the arts and elsewhere UK-wide.

Cronyism is alive and well and sitting at government Cabinet
or in any large corporation / bank / publishers boardroom.

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Signed edition of 100 giclee prints on Kodak Pro Endura, 20" x 20"
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London Dada work 642; Ten Blairs at Ten

2013-02-27T13:26:17+01:00

Ten Blairs at Ten
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Red Neon edition.

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Enhanced digital collages derived from Newsnight's interview with a defiant Tony Blair
on the 10th anniversary of his taking Britain to war with Iraq. (The collage frames are arranged to be
progressively viewed in normal reading mode, starting top left.)

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work 641; The Art Gallery as Art ( IV )

2013-02-26T14:29:44+01:00

The Gallery as Art IV - Stored picture flight boxes, Tate Britain.
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

Latest in the series istigating a fresh art genre, where parts of the gallery itself become art.
Signed edition of 25 only. Fine art giclee prints on Ilford Pearl, 20" x 17"
Unframed; £150

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London Dada work 640; The Art Gallery as Art III

2013-02-25T20:01:55+01:00

The Gallery as Art III
c. Michael St.Mark 2012

( Portable folding chair rack. Tate Britain, November 2012 )

Continuing on the series establishing a new sub genre in art, positing parts of the gallery itself is art in its own right.
Democratizing art, taking power away from the controlling elite & placing it back with the people.
Original concept, Michael St.Mark

Signed Edition of 100 fine art giclee prints, 24" x 20"
Unframed, £220

*NB Exhibiting artists producing work using this new concept kindly have the integrity to credit Michael St.Mark with its inception ..to avoid your opening night parade being seriously rained upon.
Thanks!
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London Dada work 639; Spires of Aspiration

2013-02-24T14:28:22+01:00

Spires of Aspiration
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

( London Bridge)

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London Dada work 639: "Elsewhere"

2013-02-24T12:36:48+01:00

Elsewhere
c. Michael St.Mark 2012

( London underground, Bakerloo line, c. 6pm weekday.)

Social commentary work on the human need to be transported elsewhere mentally whilst being transported physically aboard a highly uncomfortable mode with no views except to a myriad strangers' expressionless faces.

Available in signed limited edition of 50 high quality giclee prints 20 x 20" onto Ilford Pearl.
Unframed. £170

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work 638; There's Always a Show-off

2013-02-21T21:18:01+01:00

c. Michael St.Mark 2013

*King's Rd, Chelsea.

( click to enlarge.)

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London Dada works 636/637; The Art Gallery as Art - Saatchi Gallery

2013-02-20T18:30:19+01:00

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 elementsof digital image enhancement and abstract crop composition of the tasteful
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

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work 635; Green Leaf Salad

2013-02-19T15:38:33+01:00

Green Leaf Salad
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

( actual work )
click to puke to go veggie - you know you want to.

Keeping it mislabelling topical with a sumptious blue tray of abatoir-fresh sawn bone fide cow bones & gristle, all ultimately derived from lush dew-laden pastures. Therefore " Green Leaf Salad" not that far off the truth.... is it.

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By extreme mislabelling comparison; at Tate Britain, a pensive yet ultimately non-plussed visitor contemplates
the artist's 'reasoning' behind his assertion that a glass of water on a high bathroom shelf
is in fact an oak tree.

An Oak Tree, by Michael Craig-Martin (1974)
( Image courtesy London Dada)

" An Oak Tree" consists of an ordinary glass of water placed on a small glass shelf of the type normally found in a bathroom, which is attached to the wall above head height. Craig-Martin composed a series of questions and answers to accompany the objects. In these, the artist claims that the glass of water has been transformed into an oak tree. When An Oak Tree was first exhibited, in 1974 at Rowan Gallery, London, the text was presented printed on a leaflet. It was subsequently attached to the wall below and to the left of the shelf and glass. Craig-Martin's text deliberately asserts the impossible. The questions probe the obvious impossibility of the artist's assertion with such apparently valid complaints as: ‘haven't you simply called this glass of water an oak tree?' and ‘but the oak tree only exists in the mind'. The answers maintain conviction while conceding that ‘the actual oak tree is physically present but in the form of the glass of water ... Just as it is imperceptible, it is also inconceivable "

- Tate Britain

* Kind of high art meets mental institution?

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