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BENI BISCHOF
at his studio, St. Gallen
december 2013
images © wfw

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If you’re familiar with the work of BENI BISCHOF, you probably know him from a series of pictures that made the blog rounds a few years back: fashion spreads with fingers and sausages extending out of various bodily parts, “handicapped” retro muscle cars or multi-eyed cats among others.

The BENI BISCHOF universe involves painting, sculpture and drawing, is deeply rooted in pop and underground culture and comes in a certain palette of colours: luscious, organic, witty and obviously chaotic.

The location is St.Gallen (a city sandwiched between the Lake Constance and the mountains of the Appenzell Alps) where BENI has lived for most of his working life. Like an impromptu museum, his cluttered studio – a vast space on the second floor of a commercial building – is a lively and absurd cosmos: framed works, cuttings magazines and large paintings share the space with the knick-knacks of the consumer society, tools, furnitures, books and industrial materials. This accumulation of different things seems to dissolve into casual accident and sheer chance, just like his work itself.

BENI BISCHOF is currently splitting his time between many projects for 2014, so make sure to check his website for upcoming exhibitions and book releases: www.benibischof.ch

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