Christoph Hildebrand - web

Face, light installation, 300x350x150 cm, 2009

Presence of visual messages in our sensitive and delicate tissues of perception is as seductive as it is disturbing. Images, logos and words are nothing more than invitations, guideposts and suggestions. The Face deals with an omnipresent field of signs and symbols that accompany us in our everyday lives, going under the name of iconosphere. The author emphasizes the rootedness of signs and symbols in socialization processes, from basic communication to scales of value. We sense that face is the place for deciphering the world and we realize that we would not understand the text unless we were parts of the same communication and semantic field: luminescent diodes of the pictograms arranged in a façade grid resemble an alphabet for social orientation of the larger part of today’s humanity.

Christoph Hildebrand within 1977-1988 studied mathematics, physics, architecture and fine arts in Freiburg, Vienna and Berlin. He attained MA in 1985 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and in 1989 at the University of Arts in Berlin. From 1990-2000 works for various architecture and design studios (Triad Berlin, Bothe-Richter-Teherani, Mahmoudieh-Design, Plajer&Franz).New communication structures, digital technologies and the definition of identity in the age of globalisation are the backdrop for objects and installations among which many have been displayed in public space. Recent works focus spacious installations built from pictograms, illuminated by digitally controlled and animated LED neon with the possibility of interaction with the audience.