"Taking over the colourful Casa Gilardi, Luis Barragán's last commissioned residence, built for the advertising executive Francisco Gilardi in the mid-1970s, the German artist Gregor Hildebrandt transforms the house's stylish rooms with an ever-expanding exhibition of his enigmatic works across various media. Known for transforming outmoded analogue recording media-including audio cassettes, VHS tapes and vinyl records-into paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations, the Berlin-based artist's conceptual works explore themes of memory, nostalgia and the physical representation of intangible sound and sight."
"The inventive Rip-off works, his painterly compositions created by transferring the magnetic coating of audio or videotape onto canvas with adhesive, include contrasting light and dark versions of a horse standing in a pond (a reference to Barragán's love of riding and his famous Cuadra San Cristóbal equestrian complex) and a suite of works depicting a goat leaping for leaves on a tree, a reference to an ancient Persian vessel whose repeated imagery is considered the world's oldest animation."
Casa Gilardi was Luis Barragán's last commissioned residence, built for Francisco Gilardi in the mid-1970s. Gregor Hildebrandt transforms the house's rooms with an exhibition of enigmatic works across media. Hildebrandt repurposes analogue recording media—audio cassettes, VHS tapes and vinyl records—into paintings, sculptures and installations that examine memory, nostalgia and the physical representation of sound and sight. Presented by Saenger Galería, Gilardi Lilien features more than 40 works from 2005–2025. The show includes Rip-off paintings, Brâncuși-like record columns in vinyl and bronze, and a cassette-shelf portrait of Barragán. Rip-off works transfer magnetic tape coatings onto canvas, producing painterly images such as horse-in-pond versions referencing Barragán's equestrian complex and a suite depicting a leaping goat evoking ancient Persian repeated imagery.
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