26 January 2008 – 9 March 2008

Idris Khan - Every ...

Since completing his studies at the Royal College of Art in London in 2004, the young British artist Idris Khan (born in 1978) has produced an intellectually lucid and visually impressive oeuvre in only a few years. Khan’s subjects show his passionate interest in culturally coded works and artefacts from the spheres of literature, art and music. Photography and video are his media of choice.
In his photographs he digitally superimposes pictures, texts or scores he has acquired onto one another. He has applied this method to postcards of Turner paintings, photographs of industrial buildings by Bernd and Hilla Becher, notations from Wagners Parsifal, pages of the Koran and from a treatise by Sigmund Freud. Idris Khan’s composites turn texts, pictures and music into a vibrating turbulence and give them a new dimension of presence.
In his videos on classic pieces of music by Bach and Schubert, musical performances are turned into visual and acoustic palimpsests through multiple repetition and layering. Khan fashions artistically autonomous artefacts from multilayered images of knowledge and creative production. These works go beyond the strategies applied in Appropriation Art. Khan consolidates the multitude of visual, linguistic or musical sources into enigmatic pictures. New iconic qualities develop from the overabundant concurring of data and information.

Address

K20 Kunstsammlung NRW
Grabbeplatz 5
40213 Düsseldorf
phone +49 211 838 11 30
http://www.kunstsammlung.de

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. -6 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., closed on Monday; every first Wednesday in Month 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Description of the Museum

The focus of the collection is on Western European and American modern art. K20 owns excellent individual works from Pablo Picasso to Joseph Beuys, and a large number of Surrealist works.

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