Exhibition
Becoming
22 Feb 2017 – 01 Mar 2017
Royal College of Art, Dyson Building
London, United Kingdom
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Idris Khan
Talk
Becoming: Private View + Talk with Idris Khan
21 Feb 2017
Event times
6–9pm
Cost of entry
Free, no booking required. First come, first seated.
Address
- 1 Hester Road
- Battersea
- London
- SW11 4AN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 19, 49, 170, 319, 345
- Tube: Sloane Square
Event map
To celebrate the opening of Becoming at the Dyson Gallery, we are pleased to welcome RCA alumnus Idris Khan, who will give a talk about his work on the night of the Private View.
About
The Royal College of Art is partnering with online galleries Subject Matter and Sedition to present Becoming, an exhibition showcasing new work by selected artists from the RCA Schools of Fine Art and Communication. To mark the opening, artist and RCA alumnus Idris Khan will give a talk about his work.
Idris Khan
Drawing inspiration from the history of art and music as well as key philosophical and theological texts, Idris Khan investigates memory, creativity and the layering of experience. Khan's works – in media including sculpture, painting and photography – rely on a continuous process of creation and erasure, or the adding of new layers while retaining traces of what has gone before. He is well known for his large-scale works in which techniques of layering are used to arrive at what might be considered the essence of an image, and to create something entirely new through repetition and superimposition.
