Gregor Hildebrandt - Zwischen A und w - Opening

In the organizer's words:

Opening

GREGOR HILDEBRANDT
Between A and w

Curated by Gregor Jansen

Ruttkowski;68, Bochum, Sunday, 31.05. - 2-6 p.m.

Gregor Hildebrandt is in Bochum. Between A and w, so to speak. He has some experiences of his own with the alpha to omega, the B & W, and so we came up with the title "Between A and w". Between his parents Astrid and Wolfgang, Anni Albers, a pharmacy light box, Bowie, Burri, a farmer and the "Wurlitzer", the magical field of recordings, magnetic notations or notated references stretches.
Hildebrandt mostly works with gradually disappearing storage media from recent history and transforms them into art in a meaningful way. The reinterpretation of everyday objects and pop-cultural myths undergoes a twofold auratic revaluation, also due to our subjective idea of the productions stored there. Hildebrandt playfully combines a wide variety of elements and references from music, film, literature and art history for our thought-provoking allusion game. The "paintings" made from magnetic tape or audio cassettes, the sculptures created from specially shaped vinyl, the terrazzo-like mosaics made from broken records and the supermarket-inspired exhibitions with chess pieces evoke new and sensual familiarities: tactile experiences of music, painterly representations of sound, homely decors and stylistic variations, not to mention hidden echoes of minimalist aesthetics. Interior design as an exclusive mass and storage medium. A new view of Nouveau Réalisme, the revolution of the everyday. That sounds really good. And exactly the same: between A and w.

Text (excerpt): Gregor Jansen