2023年1月14日 · UCCA Lab is currently hosting "H.R. Giger Sorayama: Approaching," the first-ever duo show by H.R. (Hans Ruedi) Giger and Hajime Sorayama staged in China.

Art as Therapy and Torment: The Duality of Giger’s Creations For Giger, art was both therapy and torment. On one hand, it was a way for him to process and understand his nightmares, to bring...

2015年7月10日 · Giger took to wearing iconic black, but so did Yul Brynner and Johnny Cash. For a world that judges a book by its cover, what was it about these two non-descript men that intoxicated millions? What rendered Giger’s photographic paintings from Hell, and Lovecraft’s somnambulistic phantasms so beguiling?

Over seventy original works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, design objects and videos from the Giger Museum, represent the richest collection of the master’s works ever exhibited in Italy after his death. You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

2020年11月21日 · His art features torture chambers, in which various eerie creatures are tied, stabbed, mutilated, crushed, and crucified. Giger’s incisive probing vision traces this suffering to its sources in the archetypal depth of the psyche, where it assumes hellish dimensions. Giger’s gallery of bizarre mutants represents a category of its own.

I think it’s extraordinary how Hansruedi could depict the duality of existence: death and birth, Eros and Thanatos, everything being one and mutually dependent." Regarding Giger's personal life, he purportedly had several muses while in the creative throes, the original being his first great love, Swiss actress Li Tobler.

2015年5月23日 · New documentary Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World finds the man at the far end of his life, sick and old, surrounded by the artworks that have disturbed a million dreams.

Degenerate organic forms blend harmoniously with tortured mechanical elements, creating an aesthetic of hybridization that is typical of Giger’s work. The duality between the biological and the mechanical, so dear to Giger, is a constant in Scorn .

HR Giger was born in Chur as the second child of Melly Giger-Meier and the pharmacist Hans Richard Giger. Above their Steinbock pharmacy is the large, dingy rented apartment which, together with the entrance hallway and the pharmacy itself, becomes his favorite playground. His sister Iris is seven years older.

Giger's sculptures consist of industrial materials, blended with shapes reminiscent of anatomical structures. A well-known example is the Birth Machine, which reflects Giger's themes of life and death as well as dehumanization through technology.