Silly to the max
Curated by Marina Coelho
Kunsthalle, Sao Paulo
10.05.2014 - 07.06.2014
KUNSTHALLE São Paulo invites Swiss artist Beni Bischof to present Silly to the max, his first solo exhibition in Brazil, which continues the project LX92.
Bischof’s work is characterized by questioning the absurdity of the routine and monotony of everyday life, and the lack of direction and ridiculous nature of human pleasures. With a cynical humor and a clear preference for chaos, the artist, through intuitive gestures, manipulates and modifies the context of existing things, creating a playful and absurd ‘cosmos’.
Music, literature, TV shows, gossip magazines, trinkets of consumer society, and primarily, the internet and its daily insane amount of news, are all inspiration and serve as raw material for his works, which are funny, but at the same time an bit disturbing. Using painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and photo manipulation, his work addresses not only pop and underground current themes, but also political matters and social critiques, presented through his interest in anti-aesthetics, deconstruction, absurdity, and destroyed beauty.
For the project at KUNSTHALLE São Paulo, the artist, whose audacious exhibitions seem chaotic at a first glance, will create new works in loco, during the period in which he will be in the city, allowing that the traces of the work process remain visible to the observer.