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H. R. Giger

H. R. Giger (Hans Ruedi Giger) is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on the film Alien.

Born in 1940 to a chemist’s family in Chur, Switzerland, went to the Catholic Marienheim and then transferred to Auntie Grittli’s Reformational Kindergarten. He moved in 1962 to Zurich, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts. By 1964 Giger lived in the Venedigstrasse in Enge, Zurich. During the day, he attended the School of Applied Arts in Zurich, second year, Interior Design and Industrial Design department.

Giger’s unique style and thematic execution is frequently imitated in modern art practice. His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980. His third published book of paintings, titled Necronomicon (followed by Necronomicon II in 1985), continued his rise to international prominence, as did the frequent appearance of his art in the magazine Omni. Giger is also well known for artwork on a number of popular records.

Giger got his start with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in airbrush, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dream-scapes. He has largely abandoned large airbrush works in favor of works with pastels, markers or ink. His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship, described as “biomechanical”. His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery. His main influences were painters Ernst Fuchs and Salvador Dalí. He met Salvador Dalí, to whom he was introduced by painter Robert Venosa. He was also a personal friend of Timothy Leary. Giger is perhaps the best-known sufferer of night terrors and his paintings are all to some extent inspired by his experiences with that particular sleep disorder. He was originally educated as an architect and made his first paintings as a way of art therapy.

Giger is often referred to in pop culture and especially in works of the science fiction and cyberpunk genres. Novelist William Gibson (who wrote an early script for Alien³) seems particularly fascinated, presenting in Virtual Light a minor character, Lowell, with New York XXIV tattooed across his back and a secondary character, Yamazaki in Idoru specifically describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

Movies

* Dune (designs for unproduced Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel; The movie Dune was later made in an adaptation by David Lynch.)

* Alien (designed, among other things, the Alien itself, The Derelict and the Space Jockey)

* Alien3 (designed the puma like Alien bodyshape, plus a number of unused concepts, many mentioned on the special features disc of Alien3)

* Poltergeist II: The Other Side

* Killer Condom

* Species (designed Sil and the Ghost train in a dream sequence)

* Batman Forever (designed radically different envisioning of the Batmobile; design not used in the film)

* Future-Kill (designed artwork for the movie poster)

Work for recording artists

* Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion

* Magma: Attahk

* Emerson Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery

* Steve Stevens’ Atomic Playboys

* Deborah Harry, portraits for Koo Koo album cover and videos “Backfired” and “Now I Know You Know” (1981)

* hide: Hide Your Face

* Danzig: Danzig III: How the Gods Kill

* Dead Kennedys’ album Frankenchrist, Poster insert of Landscape XX (which lead to an obsenity trial)

* Atrocity – Hallucinations

* Black Sun Productions

* Island: album cover for Pictures

* Korn’s Jonathan Davis commissioned Giger to sculpt his microphone stand. Three microphone stands were made but only one given to Davis.

* Carcass used Life Support 1993 for the cover of their 1993 album, Heartwork.

* Designed the stage for Mylène Farmer’s 1999 “Mylenium” tour.

* Blondie’s Chris Stein commissioned Lieber Guitars to create Stein’s unique “Gigerstein” guitar based on Giger’s artwork.

* Helped to design the first professional video clip of “Böhse Onkelz” called “Dunkler Ort” (dark location) from their album “Ein böses Märchen…aus tausend finsteren Nächten”, which was released in 2000.

* Ibanez Guitars has released second generation of H.R. Giger Signature Models hr giger RG & hr giger S series with legacy artwork on the guitar body, second generation of 4-string guitar bass SRXHRG1 also released with the same concept.

Interior decoration

* Giger Bars in Switzerland’s Chur and Gruyères

* Museum H. R. Giger in Gruyères

Computer games

* Dark Seed and its sequel, Dark Seed II, both adventure games for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, and the PC, were published by Cyberdreams. The games were also released for the PlayStation and Saturn in Japan.

in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Giger

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