2008, Signed, 1/100 Copies, Beni Bischof, Torpedo Modus, ARTIST Zine, First Edition

BENI BISCHOF 

Torpedo Mode

Hand Signed By Beni Bischof

Publication: Zurich, Switzerland, Laser Magazine 2008

Artist book / zine published in an edition of 100 copies

First edition

Softcover

24 pages

Includes numerous black and white illustrations

A fine copy in stapled wrappers, handmade

Uncommon

Born 1976, Beni Bischof lives and works in St. Gallen. It all started when he began publishing laser-copied artist’s magazines in 2005 as an independent means of distributing his drawings, collages, and texts. The speed of production suited his impetuous, prolific output. It was not long before he found an additional, three-dimensional outlet for his obsessions by adding sculpture, painting, and installations to his repertoire. Often using everyday objects, Bischof creates bizarre objects whose coherence he reinforces with plaster and paint. He applies similar techniques of combining, reassembling, and reworking to images appropriated from fashion magazines, trivial literature, LP covers, and the like, overpainting them and modifying them digitally or even mechanically. Beni Bischof was awarded the St. Gallen Manor Art Prize for the year 2015.