Idris Khan (Artist Talk): Conversations with Contemporary Artists

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund: Conversations with Contemporary Artists

By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, much contemporary photography and video embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrrecuperable past. The "Haunted" exhibition documents this obsession, examining myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice, and, in the process, underscores the unique power of reproductive media. On the occasion of the exhibition, select artists featured in "Haunted" discuss the themes of their work. Curators introduce the programs and receptions, including an exhibition viewing, with the artists to follow.

Idris Khan
Wednesday, April 28, 6:30 pm
Idris Khan (b. 1978, Birmingham, England) repeatedly turns to the work of twentieth-century photographers who have explored the notion of the archive. His "Homage to Bernd Becher" compresses an entire group of the photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher into a single, multi-layered composition, paying tribute to the sheer labor and singular vision of the original creators while offering a melancholy reminder of the passage of time.

Support for educational activities including public programs is provided in part by The Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles Memorial Fund, The Engelberg Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Jane A. Lehman and Alan G. Lehman Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Overbrook Foundation, and the Museum's Education Committee.

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• Idris Khan
• Guggenheim
• New York City
• Elaine Terner Cooper
• Education Fund
• Haunted
• Photography
• Video
• Archive

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