Idris Khan - After the setting sun - 2025
Idris Khan’s multi-faceted practice is often rooted in the canon of art history, and informed by the language of colour, rhythm and classical music. In this new body of work, these sensory influences are intertwined and draw on the work of the impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) and his seminal painting of waterlilies at dusk entitled Soleil Couchant, 1914–1926, now housed in the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris.
For these new works, Khan has isolated six of the core colours from Monet’s original painting, using them as the kaleidoscopic range for the series. Each image is composed of multiple layers of musical notation, printed onto three sheets of acrylic and presented unframed in his own bespoke fixings. The printed music was created by Khan, using technology which ascribes musical notes to tone and colour, in this case based on Monet’s composition.
Through this interplay of colour and the physical layering of musical notation, Khan has created six dynamic new images which appear to explode outward from a central point. If the Impressionists believed that the purpose of art was to capture the fleeting essence of nature and light, then by filtering Monet’s water scene to pure shades of indigo, sienna and azure, Khan has distilled the essence, rhythm and atmosphere of the sunset in new and striking forms.
Medium: A series of six wall mounted reliefs, each comprising three printed acrylic panels mounted in four custom-made aluminium cleats designed by the artist
Size each: 75 x 65 x 7.5 cm - 29 1/2 x 25 5/8 x 3 in
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered
Price on request
These limited edition Idris Khan prints are now available at Cristea Roberts Gallery.
