|
Work
Style For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in airbrush, creating strange monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish landscapes. 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. He had many meetings with Salvador Dalí, to whom he was introduced by Luis Buñuel. The Spanish painter let Giger see his own work under a new point of view. The Swiss artist then realized the surrealistic aspect of his art, and it was truly inspired by that in later development. 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. 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 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 saw 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. Giger has applied his biomechanical style to interior design, and several "Giger Bars" sprung up in Tokyo, New York, and his native Switzerland, although most of the bars have since closed. 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", and the Ibanez RGTHRG1 has the work "NY City XIX" printed on it. Giger also designed an elaborate microphone stand for Jonathan Davis, lead singer of the band Korn. Movies Work for recording artists Interior decoration Computer games Giger is often referenced in pop culture and especially in works of the science fiction and cyberpunk genres. Novelist William Gibson (who wrote the original script for Alien³) seems particularly fascinated, presenting in Virtual Light a minor character, Lowell, with New York XXIV tattooed across his back. As well, Yamazaki, a secondary character in Idoru specifically describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque. | ||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
 |
|
| |