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Pawnshop Gregor Hildebrandt ( 1974) saw a photograph by Will Steacy, an American photographer who had created a series about pawnshops in the -United States. This 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 sculp-tures. For this purpose, he assembled the pawns in an installation covering the entire wall in evenly arranged rows of shelves. 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 and walls, on clothing, as a motif in his own abstract painting, and as -decoration at an overseas cemetery. Gregor -Hildebrandt's collages, panel paintings, photo-g-raphic 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 and their casings and covers as source material.

Book details

• Full title: Gregor Hildebrandt: Pawn
• Subtitle: Kienbaum Artists' Books Edition 2020
• Author: Jochen Kienbaum, Laura Kienbaum, Gregor Hildebrandt
• Language: German
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9783864423000
• ID: 25471523
• Publisher: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
• Weight: 296 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 203 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. February 2020

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