Texte

Beni Bischof works in an unruly and intuitive manner. In addition to his drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures,and installations, his self-published, laser copiedart magazine has since 2005 borne witness to hiseruptive creative urges. He translates spontaneousideas concerning social and political issues into quirky,humorous word and image-based messages of adisarming directness. The banality of everyday life isnot spared any more than current political dramas. Beni Bischof de-glamorizes the noble appearanceof purported exclusivity and draws a picture of societycharacterized by his unfathomable sense of humor. He draws his image and text materials from trivialliterature, fashion magazines, advertising, and even thevirtual world. Psychobuch (2014), his first publicationwith Edition Patrick Frey, is both an overview of thisintensive production as well as a full-fledged artist'sbook in its own right. Texte offers an initial view intohis current work in progress: pure text in a paperbackformat. It consists of Beni Bischof's personal portrayalof his collection of emails, headlines, slogans, andjokes.