HR GIGER ~ 1940 - 2014
Atomkinder (1967, left)
It seems most plausible to me, one of my favorite movies may have never made the impression on me, the way it did, without the work of Swiss artist Hans Rudolf -known to most, simply as- Giger. Equally safe it seems to say, that all the combined effort of both cast and crew, would never have made that particular movie as succesful as it has become, without the involvement of Giger in the process of its creation. Et vice versa: without Alien, the artist himself may have never made it to a level of world fame or to the doorstep of my personal attention.
watch the Necronomicon documentary on youtube
As much as the two siblings, known as May Have and Would Have, could have opened the doors to those and countless other parallel universes, the movie Alien, one of the most famous scary stories told in modern times, opened the eyes of the world to embrace the art of Giger. In turn, his very art helped the scifi-horror genre and monster-movies alike leap out from the pale shadows of silliness and bathe in the rays of starlit darkness.
In the near future humanity will most likely remember Giger as the most influential surrealist artist of our common present, and honor him for imprinting the cultural zeitgeist with his art, his crafts and creatures of flesh, machine and bone in ink, metal and stone - the amazing, the bizarre, the fantastic spawn of his mind and his alone.
transcendental biomechanic
of monstrous elegance
art between aesthete extremes
from birth to death,
a dance
Thank you Hans Ruedi
Thank you Giger
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