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Artworks
Mike Kelley 1954, Detroit, MI, USA-2012, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kandor 20, 2007Mixed media with videoRecommended dimensions for projection variable 210 × 372 cm
1 Plinth w/bottle: 137.2 × 96.5 × 96.5 cm
1 Plinth w/city: 104.2 × 96.5 × 96.5 cm
Plexi sculpture: 204.5 × 243.8 × 106.7 cmFurther images
As the capital of Superman’s home planet – Krypton, Kandor served as inspiration for Mike Kelley for a twelve-year long project and meditation on themes of cultural memory, passing time,...As the capital of Superman’s home planet – Krypton, Kandor served as inspiration for Mike Kelley for a twelve-year long project and meditation on themes of cultural memory, passing time, and visions of utopia.
“I like that Kandor has the sci-fi element. It’s a prototypical “city of the future.” When I researched it, I discovered that Kandor had never been drawn the same way twice in the Superman comics. It was such an unimportant part of the Superman mythos that a fixed city plan was never developed. I thought that was an interesting paradox – that all of my different models of this city were supposed to represent the same place”.– Mike Kelley
Exhibitions
Mike Kelley. Kandors. Venus Over Manhattan, NYC, NY, USA. Nov 2016–Jan 2017
Mutated Reality. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow. Nov 2015–Mar 2016
Mike Kelley. Museum Haus Lange und Mueum Haus Esters, Krefeld. Mar 13–Jun 19, 2011
Life on Mars – 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. May 3–Nov 1, 2008
Jablonka Galerie, Berlin. Sep 29–Nov 24, 2007Publications
Catalogue “Mutated Reality”. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, 2016. Cover pages 1–4, pp. 1, 28–37, 62, 64
Mike Kelley. Kandors. Published by Hirmer Verlag, München 2010. pp. 40–41; detail: pp. 42–45
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