The captivating imagery of Robischon artist duo Kahn + Selesnick have recently garnered attention in Provincetown, Massachusetts for their contribution to the city's public art summer series. Offering their fantastically staged photographic image "The Lazy Gardner" in the form of a large-scale mural for one of the eight selected artist sites at MacMillan Pier, Kahn + Selesnick loosely reference art history through the lens of their wonderfully absurd, carefree narrative. The photograph, "The Lazy Gardener,” which now defines the side of one of the pier's buildings in mural form, was previously shown at Robischon Gallery, as part of Kahn + Selesnick's long-running series “Truppe Feldermaus & the Carnival at the End of the World.”
The highly imaginative series, which artfully weaves past and present, real and fictitious - always with a nod to art history and current cultural tides - serves as a metaphor for contemporary society’s ongoing disengagement from the larger natural world. Other examples of their visionary works are also currently on view at the Photography Festival in Carantec (Festival de Photographie de Carantec), featuring a presentation of 150 postcards, set in the Bay of Morlaix, and providing a glimpse of the artists' grand tale, "Truppe Fledermaus." With its surreal complex narratives, the years-long and highly influential Truppe Fledermaus series continues to mesmerize, inspire, and disarm all who fully engage with its many wit-filled, provocative mysteries.
Images: 1) Kahn + Selesnick, 2) Kahn + Selesnick, “The Lazy Gardener,” at Macmillan Pier, 3) “The Lazy Gardener,” pigment print, 15 x 70 in.,
