Title
every… Bernd & Hilla Becher Prison Type Gasholder, every… Bernd & Hilla Becher Spherical Type Gasholder, every… Bernd & Hilla Becher Gable Sided House
2004
printed 2005
Artist
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Details
- Dates
- 2004
printed 2005 - Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- triptych: 3 Lamda digital C prints mounted on aluminium
- Edition
- A/P [1 + 2 artist proofs]
- Dimensions
- triptych: each 201.0 x 154.0 cm image/sheet; 206.5 x 159.5 x 4.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.l. verso each frame, blue fibre-tipped pen "Idris Khan... 2004".
- Credit
- Gift of Geoff and Vicki Ainsworth 2005
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9.2005.a-c
- Copyright
- © Idris Khan, courtesy Victoria Miro Gallery, London
- Artist information
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Idris Khan
Works in the collection
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About
Idris Khan takes inspiration from a diverse range of cultural sources. He borrows photographs, musical scores and theological texts and uses digital technology to create layered images that push his source materials to the point of abstraction.
In each of these photographs, Khan has overlayed photographs by celebrated German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose own works are displayed on the adjacent wall. The resulting composites take on the appearance of charcoal drawings. Khan became fascinated by the rise of digital photography in the early 2000s and the resulting proliferation of images. As an artist, rather than creating new images and adding to the deluge, he chose to reinterpret existing photographs and texts. Through a process of accumulation, repetition and superimposition, Khan brings emotion, energy and movement to static images.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
20th-Century galleries, lower level 1 (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023