work 635; Green Leaf Salad

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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London Dada website;

http://londondada.co.uk/