Wright Auction

Taking obsolescing media formats as his primary medium, Berlin-based German conceptual artist Gregor Hildebrandt is especially known for his “paintings” made using pre-recorded audiocassettes, such as the present work. Hildebrandt creates these large-scale abstractions by first pressing tapes onto the canvas to make impressions, and then attaching the cassettes. The result is a captivating hybrid, a primarily visual interpretation of audio data that both is and isn't present. “I really love that there’s something inside the material that you can’t hear,” Hildebrandt has said. “And when you see it, you only see black. You can have your own interpretation of the materials and it does something for your experience.”