Gregor Hildebrandt - MUSIC - Evening Sale London Thursday, December 9, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin

  • Catalogue Essay

    "There are no colors per se, in the direct or conventional sense of the term but these recorded tape ribbons could be considered a musical painting. The support remains a canvas, the glue is applied with paint brush, and the placement of the glue always plays an essential role in how the cassette tapes will therein be organized. When you really get down to it, it really consists of painting. But I often call them collages, as I find the expression more chic. I see myself as an artist, rather than a painter. But I can’t disown painting, it is the root of my work.
    "[…] I feel close to Manzoni or Yves Klein, for example. My link with these artists is built on a reflection about space and painting. When someone looks at one of my larger collages, they can see there an evocation of the firmament. The small white marks, which are the material beginnings and endings of every song, can refer to stars. And clearly, the space is the black surface. Klein was a kind of wild type and everybody used to tell him that above is black, not blue. I would say, who cares? For an artist, the idea builds the legitimacy, which is crucial.
    "I’ve been thinking about paying homage to Klein. I would like to take on the idea of the Anthropometries , with the naked women covered in paint, who whored themselves on the canvas. Klein realized this work while an orchestra was playing, it would make sense considering what I’m focused about in my own work. Yeah, well, I still have to discuss that with my girlfriend…"
    (Gregor Hildebrandt, from an interview with Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, 2 November 2010, http://stilinberlin.de)

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Pictures of You (Cure)

2007

Magnetic audio cassette tape on canvas.

274 × 173.5 cm (107 7/8 × 68 3/8 in).

Signed, titled and dated "2007 G. Hildebrandt Pictures of you [Cure]" on the reverse.

Estimate
£18,000 - 22,000 ‡♠

Sold for £30,000

MUSIC - Evening Sale

10 December 2010
London