Art I like: Idris Khan

Still thinking about my pathway project, I looked up Idris Khan, photographer, who produces work which overlays lots of images on top of each other, such as the full score of a piece of classical chamber music, so that the finished image is almost indecipherable, while representing the totality of the sound s inherent in the piece of music.  He does the same with images of buildings, or pages of text.  The effect is to produce interestingly complex but strangely familiar images, which seem to shave the depth and gravitas of the original, through the continuous build-up of lines as layer upon layer is put together.

Like this.....

Thus Spake Zarathustra... after Friedrich Nietzche(2007)
Digital C type print mounted on aluminum 
85 x 70 inches 
© Idris Khan ... After Ludwig van Bee

Image copied from Yvon Lambert Gallery here.

Idris Khan
Title		Struggling to hear... after Ludwig van Beethoven sonatas
Medium		lambda digital color coupler print
Size		102 x 70 in. / 259.1 x 177.8 cm.
Year		2005 -
Edition		5/6 Copied image and text from ArtNet website here.

More about Idris Khan in a  Guardian article here and here.

I like the way he crease something almost skid from these repeated images - and they are on a huge scale., so why was perhaps previously a duty volume of sheet music, is now a massive piece of photographic image, perhaps 2 or 3 metres long, demanding attention and reflection.