Birth machine

Hans Ruedi Giger (IPA: [ˈɡi ɡɚ]) (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on the film Alien. Birth Machine, by H.R.Giger Photograph taken of a sculpture on display in Gruyeres. ... Birth Machine, by H.R.Giger Photograph taken of a sculpture on display in Gruyeres. ... Chur (French: Coire, German Chur (khoor) [kuːr] (in Graubünden); [xuːr] (elsewhere), Romansh Cuira (KWAY-rah) [ˈkwera] or (KWOI-rah) [ˈkwojra], Italian Coira (KOI-rah) [ˈkojra], Latin: Curia, Curia Rhaetorum and Curia Raetorum), is the capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden and lies in the northern... Graubünden or Grisons (German:  ; Italian: Grigioni; Romansh: Grischun, French: Grisons) is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland. ... The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... This article is about the first film in a series. ...

Work

Giger's Alien design, inspired by his earlier painting Necronom IV, for the film Alien.

Giger's 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. Image File history File links Hrgigeralien. ... Image File history File links Hrgigeralien. ... A Xenomorph from the film Alien vs Predator. ... This article is about the first film in a series. ... A Xenomorph from the film Alien vs Predator. ... Necronom IV Necronom IV is a 1976 airbrush print by Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Necronomicon I was the first major published compendium of images by H.R. Giger. ... The cover of the January 1991 issue of Omni. ...

Style

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 and are considered disturbing by some. 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. Paasche F#1 Single Action External Mix Airbrush An airbrush is a small, air-operated tool that sprays various media including ink and dye, but most often paint by a process of atomization. ... Max Ernst. ... The current usage of the term nightmare refers to a dream which causes the sleeper a strong unpleasant emotional response. ... For other uses, see Cyborg (disambiguation). ... A BioMechanoid is a fictional entity that features in many science-fiction films, books and television programs. ... This article concerns the concept of fetishism in anthropology. ... Ernst Fuchs (born February 13, 1930) is an Austrian visionary painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. ... Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia (Spain). ... Robert Venosa is an Spanish American painter who lives in Boulder, Colorado. ... Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, modern pioneer and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. ... A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. ... For other uses, see Architect (disambiguation). ... Art therapy was invented by the great philosopher David Chapelle of the enlightenent era. ...

Obscenity lawsuit

Giger's artwork for the Dead Kennedys' album Frankenchrist, Landscape XX (nicknamed Penis Landscape), was at the center of an obscenity lawsuit against Eric Reed Boucher a.k.a. Jello Biafra, vocalist for the San Francisco punk band the Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are a hardcore punk band from San Francisco, California. ... Frankenchrist was the third album released by the Dead Kennedys in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles. ... The Frankenchrist poster Penis Landscape, or Work 219: Landscape XX is a painting by H. R. Giger ,also known as Matt Rich. ... Obscenity in Latin obscenus, meaning foul, repulsive, detestable, (possibly derived from ob caenum, literally from filth). The term is most often used in a legal context to describe expressions (words, images, actions) that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time. ... Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. ...

Other works

Giger has created furniture designs, particularly the Harkonnen Capo Chair for an unproduced movie version of the novel Dune that was originally slated to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowski. Many years later, David Lynch directed the film, using only extremely limited rough ideas from Giger and Jodorowski. Giger had wished to work with Lynch, as he had said that Lynch's film Eraserhead was the closest thing to portraying Giger's art in film (even including the films that Giger himself had worked on), as cited in one of Giger's Necronomicon books. The Harkonnen Capo Chair is one of H.R. Gigers furniture designs. ... Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. ... Alexandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, Chile) is a director, actor, and writer of a handful of esoteric, surreal and shocking films, as well as a writer of comic books. ... For other persons named David Lynch, see David Lynch (disambiguation). ... Eraserhead (released in France as The Labyrinth Man) is a 1977 surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch. ...

Giger has applied his biomechanical style to interior design, and several "Giger Bars" sprang up in Tokyo, New York, and his native Switzerland, although most of the bars have since closed. One such example was The Limelight in Manhattan, circa 1993 -- at the time, its bars featured faux embryos in jars, floating in a backlit pinkish fluid. His art has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide. Ibanez guitars has released an H.R. Giger signature series; the Ibanez ICHRG2, an Ibanez Iceman, features the work "NY City VI", the Ibanez RGTHRG1 has the work "NY City XI" printed on it, and the S Series SHRG1Z has a metal coated engraving of the work "Biomechanical Matrix" on it. There is also a 4 string SRX bass; SRXHRG1, that has "N.Y. City X" printed on it. For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... For other uses, see Tattoo (disambiguation). ... Sexual fetishism, first described as such by Sigmund Freud though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient, is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a persons body. ... This article is about the guitar manufacturer. ... This article is about the guitar manufacturer. ... This article is about the guitar manufacturer. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... This article is about the guitar manufacturer. ...

Giger also designed an elaborate microphone stand for Jonathan Davis, lead singer of the band Korn. This article is about Jonathan Davis, the lead singer of Korn. ... This article is about the band. ...

Pop culture

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Giger is often referenced 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. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Berlins Sony Center reflects the global reach of a Japanese corporation. ... For other persons named William Gibson, see William Gibson (disambiguation). ... Alien³ is a science fiction/horror film that opened May 22, 1992. ... William Gibsons Bridge trilogy is his second trilogy, after the succesful Sprawl trilogy. ... This article is about the tattoo, a design in ink or some other pigment, usually decorative or symbolic, placed permanently under the skin. ... The Yamazaki are descendants of a samurai clan from Kawagoe in the Kanto Region. ... William Gibsons Bridge trilogy is his second trilogy, after the successful Sprawl trilogy. ... A mite next to a gear chain produced using nanotechnology Nanotechnology as a collective term refers to technological developments on the nanometer scale, usually 0. ...

Movies

• Dune (designs for unproduced Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel; The movie Dune was later made in an adaption by David Lynch.)
• Alien (designed, among other things, the Alien itself, the The Derelict and the Space Jockey)
• 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)

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Work for recording artists

Walpurgis, the 1969 debut album by Swiss progressive rock band The Shiver, represents the first instance in which Giger designed artwork for an album cover.

• Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion
• Magma
• 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
• Atrocity - Hallucinations
• Black Sun Productions
• 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 1994 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.

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Interior decoration

• Giger Bars in Switzerland's Chur and Gruyères
• Museum H. R. Giger in Gruyères

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Computer games

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

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External links

• Museum HR Giger HR. Giger's individual and official Website
• HR Gigers official Webshop
• Official website
• Official Giger database
• Official U.S. publisher's site.
• Official site for the documentary "H.R. Giger's Sanctuary"
• Surreal Gallery featuring Giger
• H.R. Giger - Fantastic Art Collective
• Giger's article (including images) on being commissioned to sculpt Jonathan Davis' microphone stand.
• Giger Interview
• Labyrinthe Gesellschaft für phantastische und visionäre Künste e.V. - images of Giger's works