H.R. Giger
Over half a century before the dark subculture of morbidly inclined teenagers began to flourish in America, a young boy in Switzerland named Hans Rudi Giger was building "ghost rides" in his cellar and drawing deformed children on calendar sheets . Before his time, this artist went against the crowd, daring to be himself and daring to be different. As an accomplished sixty one year old painter, sculptor, moviemaker, costume designer and scriptwriter Giger doesn't create art, he lives it. The always confident and eccentric Giger has been known to wear hollowed out loaves of bread on his feet calling them "shoes", and once dressed up a dog as a robotic monster, but he is most notorious for his masterpiece movie successes The Alien trilogy. As a young man Giger attended a myriad of art schools ranging from interior design to drawing schools, and he even attended a military college once. He started to create tables and masks in 1964, also the year his ink drawings began to be published in underground magazines. He was working a full-time furniture design job for designer Andreas Christen when he fell "madly in love" with an attractive actress named Li Tober in 1966 . In 1967 they moved into a vacant apartment next door to a co
Nine years after moving in with Giger, Li shot herself in the head, leaving Giger in the clutches of despair . The raw, uncensored morbidity of his paintings is refreshing in a society than too often tries to white wash over the gray areas in life. From that point on, Giger has been creating original, fascinating work without compromising his artistic dignity, and will turn 61 this year. Giger's unique blend of art cannot be outdone for it is perfect in its own tantalizing, disturbing way. ndemned house, which proved to be the first of several "condemned" houses Giger would live in or near by in his lifetime. At the end of the year Giger meets Mia Binzanigo, only a year after Li's death and eventually decides to marry her. Its not art I would hang all over my walls, but it is certainly excellent work that should be cherished. I find Giger's work very inspirational and almost spiritual in some respects. For his efforts Giger was awarded an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. I see Giger's art as a vacation from the everyday motions of life. There are no words to fully describe Giger's work. Silkscreen prints Giger designed were used to promote the film, which Giger went to great lengths to promote, sometimes doing twenty-three interviews a day. After he signed the contract, Giger realized the weak plot and special effects were not his taste and was displeased with the entire situation. In 1970 Giger was inspired by his first of many horror nightmares to paint a series of paintings called the "wet-cell" paintings.
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