Publisher's Synopsis
For the past two decades, Gregor Hildebrandt (b. Bad Homburg, 1974; lives and works in Berlin) has transformed analog audiotapes, cassettes, and records into collages, sculptures, panel paintings, and installations. Melding visual art with music, he has charted a complex creative vision crossing boundaries of medium and genre that he continually refines. Before using a tape, he records selected music- typically a single song- on it, whose lyrics he quotes in the work' s title. The artist' s output draws on his personal repertoire of bands that share a romantic narrative of loneliness and a melancholy keynote. The same attitude toward life is reflected in Hildebrandt' s work. The book offers insight into all periods of the artist' s oeuvre and is rounded out by archival materials from Hildebrandt' s studio, his project space Grzegorzki Shows, and the music label Grzegorzki Records that illustrate his creative process.
