Art Noir by HR Giger

2011-05-03 15:04 | Comments: 0

Exhibition in KUNST HAUS WIEN devoted to the influentual Swiss painter and sculptor HR Giger, who received an Oscar for his creations in the film Alien. His oeuvre — varied, surrealistic, fetishistic, morbid, nightmarish but always exceptionally aesthetic.

Painting Li I, 1974 | Photo credit: Roland Gretler | HR Giger 2011

Hi, I visited the HR Giger exhibition in KUNST HAUS WIEN and am impressed by Hans Rudolf Giger's monochromic, surrealistic artwork.

In the exhibition you will see his airbrushed paintings in his unique biomechanical style, his alien sculptures for the film Alien and Species, and his photographic collages also retouched with airbrush.

The later looking a bit like photoshopped photos, but all done by hand long before Photoshop was even invented. Really impressive work!

In his surrealistic paintings I love the enormous amount of details and his exceptionally beautiful approach to otherwise scary topics such as deformation and death.

And whoever watched the film Species also knows it is easy to fall in love with his extremely sexy alien creations ;)

The exhibition in KUNST HAUS WIEN is open till June 26th 2011.

Dune I, 1975
Photo credit: Roland Gretler | HR Giger 2011