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Sleuths of Imaginative History
The Cress Gallery happily presents collaborator artists Nicholas Miles Kahn and Richard Selesnick with their renowned presentations of “The Apollo Prophecies” and “Eisbergfreistadt” (“Iceberg Free State”). Ruth Grover, curator, believes this show to be a very fortunate entry in the ongoing John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series.
Media involved include performative photography, video and sculpture. The work from these installations features intricate and consummate execution, but the conception of the work remains the most challenging element. These artists of surreal history, ranging from icy wilderness to outer space, produce a vertiginous grasping for reference of the real and a satirical indictment of presumed real history.
A kind of history of such aesthetic enterprises may be found in Matt Glass’s Constructed Realities in the Age of Photography (see www.glassbrain.com).
Down on Earth, we may not notice floating, airless moon rocks decorating the space around our familiar moon, nor do typical photographs show the ruins of tiny colonies a century old. Here we are indebted to Kahn and Selesnick for their panoramic photographic documentation of valiant Edwardians in their buffalo space coats pondering the temporal mysteries more »
