HR Giger
10 March - 26 June 2011
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HR GIGER
Dreams and Visions
10th of March - 26th of June 2011
In this comprehensive retrospective devoted to HR Giger, who was born in
1940 in Switzerland, KUNST HAUS WIEN takes a new look at the works of a
controversial artist who, more than almost anyone else, has had a
farreaching influence on pop culture and cyberculture. The painter and
sculptor HR Giger, who received an Oscar in 1980 for his creation of the
otherworldly creatures in the film classic "Alien", directed by Ridley
Scott, has produced a richly varied artistic oeuvre that is unmatched
for ist visionary power and disturbing intensity.
HR Giger is an artist of visions, who has depicted the collective fears
of a humanity faced with the threat of nuclear destruction and the
mechanisation of life in archetypal images created in his distinctive
biomechanical style. He is a magician of dreams, who, in cycles such as
the "Necronomicon" or the "Tarot", probes the most deeply hidden layers
of the subconscious and penetrates to the abysses of all that is
nightmarish and demonic. Running through HR Giger's entire oeuvre, like
two closely entwined threads, are the themes of sexuality and death; in
the exhibition, a special section is devoted to "Eros und Thanatos".
The retrospective brings together key works from all of HR Giger's
creative periods and works that have never been exhibited before,
thereby offering insights into the development of his unmistakable
aesthetic. A special focus is placed on three female figures that appear
in HR Giger's oeuvre – Li Tobler, one of his muses, the singer Debbie
Harry, and the hybrid female Sil from the film "Species". The exhibition
places significant motifs from HR Giger's works in the context of the
artists and images that have particularly inspired him.
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