idris Khan creates multi-layered photos, 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. “it’s obviously not about re-photographing the photographs to make exact copies, but to intervene and bring a spectrum of feelings – warmth, humour, anxiety – to what might otherwise be considered cool aloof image. You can see the illusion of my hand in the layering. It looks like a drawing. It’s not systematic or uniform. The opacity of every layer is a different fallible, human decision”.
Idris Khan, "Caravaggio.....The Final Years, "2006, digital C type print , 257 x 173 cm
Idris Khan, "every...William Turner postcard from Tate Britain," 2004, Lamda digital C print on aluminum mount, 38-3/4 x 53-1/2 in.
“every…Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable Sided Houses”
Lambda digital C print 80 x 65, 2004
every... page of the Holy Quran, 2004
Lambda digital C print mounted on aluminium, 136 x 170 cm
a memory of Kate
source:http://photoslaves.com/idris-khan’s-multi-layered-photos/
http://omnparts.com/2009/12/16/the-photographs-of-idris-khan-a-reintroduction-to-leonardo-caravaggio-and-turner/
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