Erotic Aliens
One of my favourite websites used to be Therion Fantasy Art Gallery, which had a page of art by Hans Ruedi Giger, better known as H.R. Giger. He won an Academy Award for his design work on the cult movie Alien. His art is unique, a weird and erotic blend of mechanical semi-humanoid monsters doing unspeakable things to others of their metallic ilk. Giger has turned the Swiss enthusiasm for cuckoo clocks into Borg nightmares! A World History of Art devotes a web page to Giger's work. If you enjoy a rude shudder, click the title link. (Note: the domain name therionweb.de is still for sale.)
posted by Unknown @ 7.4.09
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that's disgusting!
Only if you anthropomorphize those aliens! Perhaps that's what makes his art so disturbing. Remember that alien ship's captain dead in his cockpit in Alien? One of Giger's drawings. And the eggs and the thing bursting out of the stomach? A weird vision, but it makes for really scary art. A worthy Oscar winner.
I think Giger is psychologically disturbed. Nevertheless his work is intriguing. A dead old former girlfriend, necrophilia? aborted foetuses? This is Gigers mental baggage. The suggestion of the ancient mausoleum bass reliefs seem to suggest a great trauma and loss in the mans life.
You might well be right, but it gives him a unique signature in the art world. His work is fascinating, if creepy. One of the surprising things is that many of his metallic aliens have beautiful feminine faces that enoble them. If you type Giger into my search box, you'll find more.
that looks more like the scene in the movie Species rather than Alien. When eve got together with that astronaut guy.
Yes, that isn't one of Giger's Alien monsters, just a close relative! He's been creating these metalic creatures for decades. That was why he was chosen to make the designs for Alien. His weird designs are far more extensive than the ones for that movie. Search my blog to find a link to an exhibition of his work. It's an online must-see.
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