Pawn

Gregor Hildebrandt:

ISBN 10: 3864423007 / ISBN 13: 9783864423000

Published by Snoeck, 2020

About this Item

128 S. Signiert! Vom Verfasser handsigniertes ('For Felix Gregor Hildebrandt') gebundenes Widmungs-Exemplar, leichte Lagerspuren, Originalschutzumschlag, dieser minimal angerändert, innen absolut sauberes und eher unbenutztes fast neuwertiges Exemplar. 12,5 x 2 x 20 cm 1/0 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.

Seller Inventory # 17411

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pawn
• Publisher: Snoeck
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3864423007
• ISBN 13: 9783864423000
• Binding: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kunst und Antiquitäten

About this title

Synopsis

Gregor Hildebrandt (*1974) saw a photograph by Will Steacy, an American photographer who had created a series about pawnshops in the United States. The system of pawnshops in turn prompted Gregor Hildebrandt to play with the meaning and sense of the word pawnshop, i.e. to set up a shop in which chess pieces (pawns) were to be sold. When these are not directly connected to the game itself, he sees them and the shop itself as sculptures. For this purpose, he assembled the pawns in an installation covering the entire wall in evenly arranged rows of shelves, thus transposing them into a state dissociated from their purpose. With this artist's book, Gregor Hildebrandt further explores a wide variety of variations on the theme, including chess pieces of the most varied nature in their surroundings, chess patterns on floors, walls, and clothing, as a motif in his own abstract painting, and as decoration at an overseas cemetery. Gregor Hildebrandt's collages, panel paintings, photographic works, and installations have always been a source of astonishment, even sensation, having used analog data carriers, i.e. audio and video tapes as well as records, their casings, and covers as source material, whereby the audio tapes used have always had selected music recorded on them beforehand.

About the Author

The work of Gregor Hildebrandt, b. 1974, makes him an outstanding German artist. He makes extensive use of pre-recorded cassette tapes as material in his pictures and installations. His exhibition list includes shows at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2008), in 2013 he participated at the Lyon Biennale, and in the States, his work is part of the Rubell Family Collection and The Margulies Collection, both in Miami, Florida.