Kahn & Selesnick
Kahn & Selesnick are a British artist couple who have been working and exhibiting primarily in the USA since 1986 .
Life dates
Nicholas Kahn was born in New York City , USA in 1964 . Richard Selesnick was also born in 1964 in London . The artists work together in the fields of photography, sculpture and installation and create fictional stories (English: fictive art ) that take place both in the past and in the future. The couple have shown their work in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions around the world and have published several books.
Publications
Three books have been published so far by Aperture Press in New York City:
- Scotlandfuturebog . 2002, ISBN 0-893819352 .
- City of Salt . 2005, ISBN 1-931788774 .
- The Apollo Prophecies . 2006, ISBN 1-597110205 .
Projects
In 2007, Kahn & Selesnick created a multimedia installation Eisbergfreistadt in which, in a fictional story, an iceberg stranded in the Baltic Sea in the inflation year 1923 in front of the city of Lübeck and became a tourist attraction. This development is illustrated by photographs, postcards, emergency notes, architectural models, contemporary clothing and Lübeck marzipan. The installation was first shown in the USA, including Boston , Massachusetts . Then she went to Lübeck in 2010, where she found a place in the Museum of the Overbeck Society . In the same year they completed their Mars project . Adrift on the Hourglass Sea , which was first shown in Boston.
In 2012, Kahn & Selesnick started their Fledermaus troop project , which was followed by Mars Revisited in 2013 .