Gregor Hildebrandt

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5th February - 26th April 2014

Gregor Hildebrandt

Gregor Hildebrandt

Gregor Hildebrandt (b. in 1974 in Born in Bad Homburg, Germany lives and works in Berlin, Germany) makes great use of pre-recorded cassette tapes as material in his pictures and installations. The tapes are applied directly onto canvases and photographic prints and in room-sized installations. Although Hildebrandt’s work makes formal reference to Minimalism, the addition of a great number of subjective and autobiographical citations actually deliberately repudiates this strategy.

For Hildebrandt, the cassette tape as artistic medium, especially in its original function of storage medium, fulfils an important function: it enables the artist to add a further “invisible” dimension to his pictures. Playing with perception in this way is a major characteristic of his work; the picture is completed in the head of the viewer.

If the contemplation of his art incorporates the heterogeneous cosmos of Gregor Hildebrandt’s references to music, film, literature and, last but not least, art history, his works turn out to be complex montages, in which pictorial associations from different spheres combine and interpenetrate. Hildebrandt employs the material of his every-day environment without aesthetic or theoretical inhibition and playfully links aspects of conceptual art and minimal art with his personal life and experience of pop culture.

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The Art Daily 5 February 2014 Download PDF
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Times of India 7 February 2014 Download PDF
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Asian Age 10 February 2014 Download PDF
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Daily Secret 10 April 2014 Download PDF