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SELECTED WORKS BY Idris Khan



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Idris Khan

every...Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable sided Houses

2004
photographic print (framed)

208 x 160 cm

Working with appropriated imagery, Idris Khan’s photos are all-encompassing composites, consolidating iconic cultural symbols of similar type into single ‘super-images’. In this selection of his every… series, Khan aggregates the work of renowned artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, famous for their vast photographic collections of buildings and industrial sites. Exposed in translucent layers, anchored by the compositions’ continuous shapes, the Becher’s gasholders and gabled houses loose their commanding simplicity and rigid formalism, descending into fractured and gestural blurs merely suggestive of the originals. Through this process of layering, Khan creates a poetic malleability from the fixed codes of history. Compressing the timeline of repetition into indivisible subsuming moments, his photos offer a glimpse into the sublime.


Idris Khan

every...Bernd and Hilla Becher Prison type Gasholders

2004
photographic print (framed)

208 x 160 cm


Idris Khan

every...Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical type Gasholders

2004
photographic print (framed)

208 x 160 cm



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the-artists.org
Modern and contemporary artists and art; Idris Khan

findarticles.com
A focus on six of the best (including Idris Khan)by Sue Steward
Victoria Miro’s six handpicked young photographic artists represent a spectrum of historical, aesthetic and technical approaches to photography today…The photographs by outstanding young RCA graduate Idris Khan resemble charcoal drawings. He reinterprets thousands of pre- existing photographs, including Gasworks by German photographers Bernd and Hilla, by digitally rephotographing and superimposing them.

victoria-miro.com - Idris Khan at Victoria Miro
Idris Khan creates multi-layered photographs, often of appropriated art and books, in a way that both augments the aura of the original and reveals the idiosyncratic trace of his own hand. Khan's work explores the history of photography and literature, the beauty of repetition and the anxieties of authorship.

victoria-miro.com
- Press reviews on Idris Khan
2005 - Art Review, Charles Darwent, Look to the Future, August 2005
2005 - Modern Painters, Brian Dillon, On Photography, March 2005
2004 - Next Level, Edition 03, Volume 02, Idris Khan, 'Every..', 2004
 
 

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