Art Noir by HR Giger
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
Birth Machine, 1967
Photo credit: HR Giger 2011
Lilith, 1977
Photo credit: HR Giger 2011
Passage XXVIII, 1973
Photo credit: HR Giger 2011
Debbie Harry on a Harkonnen-Capo-Chair, 1981
Photo credit: Chris Stein | HR Giger 2011
The Spell IV, 1977
Photo credit: HR Giger 2011
The Second Celebration of the Four IX, 1977
Photo credit: HR Giger 2011
Giger's Alien, 1979
Photo credit: HR Giger 2011
Sil, The Transformation
Photo credit: HR Giger 2011
Sil Display, 1995
Photo credit: Matthias Belz | HR Giger 2011
Atomic Children, 1968
Photo credit: HR Giger 2011
HR Giger at Work, 1978
Photo credit: Mia Bonzanigo | HR Giger 2011
Official Websites
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KUNST HAUS WIEN
Follow-up story
Hundertwasser Museum Kunst Haus Wien
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cipha on 2014-05-13 11:35
thank you for this beautiful article!
R.I.P. H.R. Giger!
JR on 2014-05-13 19:39
May you rest in peace, Mr. Giger
Chrome on 2014-05-14 18:40
We'll not see his like again. ♥
Eric on 2014-05-20 10:38
R.I.P.
Jody Randall on 2016-08-06 22:36
I was a young lad of 10 when Alien was at the theater. HR Giger totally floored me with his fantastic creations. I noticed that the work was something I had seen before... My fathers ELP record! My facination with the periodical Heavy Metal Magazine only made me more aware of this mans talent when he was featured in an edition via 1982. Most recently I watched a beautiful biography of this master on Netflix which reinvigorated my obsession with viewing his creations. HR Giger was and is a once in a lifetime force. I only hope that the world will see his work as I see it. Truly moving, beautiful yet dangerous. Awe inspiring, sexual, dark and light. Thank you for this site!
Mouse on 2023-02-25 21:10
I wish H.R. Giger was still alive because I would of asked him to design my basement and it's walls to look like the inside of the Xenomorph hive.