Meta Cars - Beni Bischof science poetry and prose

poetry and prose

printed on magazine-quality paper that equally rejects the gravitas and fixedness of a more – literally – weighty publication

From quick dishes such as Sweet Potato Noodles with Roasted Fennel and Sweetheart Cabbage and Omelette Banh Mi

With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us

Photographs printed actual size of objects and prints attached to the floor so that images are perfectly congruent with their objects

Meta Cars - Beni Bischof science poetry and proseIn 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