I suddenly realize that making art is a vital activity for me to keep from going insane. Pictures are from the book.. Work on the film is in full swing. The construction of the spaceship is almost finished. Small models of the landscape and the entrance area of the spacecraft were made. The people who built these have no clue about my architecture. I said that they should get bones and build a model with plasticine. But the project he was now working on would make him both a worldwide cult figure and an Oscar winner.
Director Ridley Scott had hired Giger to create the monster in the movie Alien. So the artist went to the Shepperton Film Studios near London to realize his designs for the world of the alien with his own hand. One painting had immediately convinced Scott to get Giger involved in shaping the alien creature: Necronom IV It shows in profile the upper body of a being with only remotely humanoid traits.
Its skull is extremely elongated, and its face is almost exclusively reduced to bared teeth and huge insect-like eyes. Hoses extend from its neck and its back is dominated by tubular extensions and reptilian tails. The male sexual organ is significantly extended and curved upwards over the head. It opens out into a transparent bulge in which a skeletonized being is visible like a little saint resting in a glass coffin.
Only the powerful arms are still close to the human form, although wires and mechanical tracks are visible under their translucent skin and their material is less reminiscent of tissue than of the grain of medieval woodcarvings. The elegantly slender fingers contrast sharply with the creatures merciless mien.
Although there is no indication as to where the creature may be in space and time, it is still obvious that it cannot come from the world as we know it. In order to turn this painted creature into a monster for a movie, the artist had to submit it to a complex transformation. Giger developed a complete natural history of the alien based on the screenplay, which ultimately produced the final monster of the film.
The creatures latent deadliness turns into a sort of applied lethality that it acts out through dynamic motion in the film. Between these two stages stood the creative and artistic process of designing and producing the necessary figures, which Giger did primarily by himself. The process results in a unique mixture of fascination and disgust. Gigers monster represents a turning point in science fiction and horror movies, to which Alien brought a deadly lifeform from space that had never been seen before.
The myriad traces that Gigers work has left in so many different areaspainting and film, album covers and tattoo culture, as well as in the genres of science fiction and fantasy make it like a Rosetta Stone combining several languages that still have to be decrypted.
Seen in art-historical terms, we have an artist whose work, although inspired by Surrealism and Symbolism, was highly autonomous and ultimately difficult to classify and who already made a distinctive contribution to the Fantastic Art of the 20th century with his work before Alien.
His biomechanical ideas are still developed independently in disciplines like media art and bio art, less as an aesthetic influence than as ideas influencing a conceptual approach. Then there is the reading of Gigers work focusing on mythology and psychology, which examines the role of individual and collective fears in his approach, which is not merely figurative and narrative, but can also be understood in a modern way as the creation of a mythology.
A work that is so densely populated with archetypes and beings from a post-human future, which is well beyond accepted notions of reality and which is so rich in symbols, shapes, and themes from occult traditions, also calls for a reading that includes interpretations from the fields of alchemy, astrology, and magic.
The diversity of the readings of these archetypal themes could easily fill a whole librarya Bibliotheca gigerianaon the draftsman, painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and designer HR Giger. His target group was mainly girls, in whom little Hansruedi showed an early interest. While the others were at church on Sunday mornings, he headed for the basement of the local museum to look at the mummy of an Egyptian princess on display there and stood beside her in a mixture of horror and fascination.
When a pharmaceutical company gave his father a human skull, the son took it for himself and pulled it behind him through the streets of Chur on a string. As a student in the second half of the s, Giger did drawings with macabre topics and set up the so-called Black Room in his parental home his first place for his own art and that of others, for performance and music.
At the beginning of the s, Giger published his ink drawings in Swiss underground magazines. During his time there he created a group of tachistic paintings as well as pictures of huge empty stairwells. Gigers early work deals very directly with the collective fears of the time. The world had just narrowly avoided a nuclear war over the stationing of Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuba, and in neutral Switzerland, which was working on its own nuclear weapons program, the very real possibility of a nuclear apocalypse was omnipresent.
In several of his works, Giger designed a post-apocalyptic scenario showing the situation after a nuclear war. Other hotly debated issues such as the threat of global overpopulation and the advancing mechanization and automation of many aspects of life also found their way into his work.
Atomkinder Atomic Children, shows three posthuman figures in a stylized artificial landscape. The entire upper half of the picture is filled with an atomic sun, in front of which two one-legged beings loom.
Giger is putting mutation, a long-term consequence of nuclear radiation at the genetic level, at the heart of the image. The two figures almost look like Siamese twins, but they are separate beings who touch each other only at a point of their backs because they need each other to walk upright. Zee News App: Read latest news of India and world, bollywood news, business updates, cricket scores, etc.
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