A Brave New World: Hans Rudolf Giger

Hans Giger was a swiss surrealist artist and was most famous for his work combining humans and machines in a biomechanical manner.

He was born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, and as he got older his interests led him to study architecture and industrial design in Zurich, before beginning a successful career in art and interior design from the mid-1960s onwards.
In the beginning he worked with with ink and oil paintings until eventually he progressed on to using airbrush, which helped portray his work in a "vivid, often disturbing style, characterised by dark sexuality and cyberpunk energy".

Giger created a painting called 'Necronom IV' which depicted a creature with 'a human torso and grotesquely phallic skull'. This was then seen by Ridley Scott, an english film and director who used it as the inspiration for his sci-fi horror film Alien. His designs also inspired 'the derelict spacecraft, the unfurling alien eggs, and the masked 'Space Jockey' gunner' also found in the film. The film's producer Gordon Carroll described Giger's work as "sick", but Ridley Scott later commented on the work and including it in his film, saying "I'd never been so certain about anything in all my life."

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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/13/hr-giger-dies-alien-artist

A Brave New World

Saturday 28 November 2015

Hans Rudolf Giger

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