Gregor Hildebrandt: W枚rter in anderer Sprache
Words in another language can be mysterious, creating an invisible barrier, but they may also become the key to a new world. Music is one step ahead of verbal language 鈥� it is a universal language whose words and phrases can be understood everywhere.
In his works, Gregor Hildebrandt (*1974) has been using music in the form of analogue data carriers for over 20 years; cassettes and records become the central material and content components of many pieces. Countless video or cassette tapes on canvas combine into images with calligraphic or floral motifs, or geometric patterns; deformed vinyl records stack into columns and walls. Sometimes, they also become the raw material of a homage to materials of our daily life, such as wood or textiles.
Gregor Hildebrandt devotes himself in many ways and forms to the cultural and everyday elements of the reality surrounding him. In this process, music becomes a connecting element and a medium of remembrance.
The exhibition is a composition of artworks that link different phases in the artist鈥檚 life and work. The thirteen beams with a wooden grain from the installation Ich habe Stimmen geh枚rt resemble a section cut from a tree trunk. On closer inspection, however, the annual rings turn out to be cassette tapes, wound further and further around the reel. The wood motif has accompanied the artist for several years, beginning with the Baumstammschallplatte (2003), in which Hildebrandt takes up the similarity between the natural structures of a tree鈥檚 annual rings and the grooves of a record.
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Words in another language can be mysterious, creating an invisible barrier, but they may also become the key to a new world. Music is one step ahead of verbal language 鈥� it is a universal language whose words and phrases can be understood everywhere.
In his works, Gregor Hildebrandt (*1974) has been using music in the form of analogue data carriers for over 20 years; cassettes and records become the central material and content components of many pieces. Countless video or cassette tapes on canvas combine into images with calligraphic or floral motifs, or geometric patterns; deformed vinyl records stack into columns and walls. Sometimes, they also become the raw material of a homage to materials of our daily life, such as wood or textiles.
Gregor Hildebrandt devotes himself in many ways and forms to the cultural and everyday elements of the reality surrounding him. In this process, music becomes a connecting element and a medium of remembrance.
The exhibition is a composition of artworks that link different phases in the artist鈥檚 life and work. The thirteen beams with a wooden grain from the installation Ich habe Stimmen geh枚rt resemble a section cut from a tree trunk. On closer inspection, however, the annual rings turn out to be cassette tapes, wound further and further around the reel. The wood motif has accompanied the artist for several years, beginning with the Baumstammschallplatte (2003), in which Hildebrandt takes up the similarity between the natural structures of a tree鈥檚 annual rings and the grooves of a record.
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