Beni Bischof: Meta Cars I Spent the Last Year Learning to Love Green color and b&w images

color and b&w images

answering questions he asks himself through drawing

A pure artistic practice that he considers autonomous from the profession for which he is internationally recognized

For decades

Beni Bischof: Meta Cars I Spent the Last Year Learning to Love Green color and b&w imagesIn Meta Cars, Beni Bischof transforms found images of cars into visual distortions. Through digital manipulation and radical simplification, the original shapes are abstracted reduced to ghostly and ridiculous silhouettes that feel both familiar and alien. The result: automotive hybrids with an almost hypnotic pull. Drawing on the aesthetics of American muscle cars and the TV shows of the 1980s and 90s, Bischof taps into a retro sense of coolness