H.
R. Giger is one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism.
Born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, he studied architecture and industrial design
at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. His first artworks in the early 60’s,
mainly ink drawings and oils, lead to his first solo exhibition in 1966, followed
by the world-wide distribution of his first poster edition. Switching to the
airbrush in the early 70’s, Giger created his own unique signature, freehand
style. His most well known works of this period, the biomechanical dreamscape
paintings such as “The Spell” and the “Passage Temple”
series, are the cornerstone of his fame. To this date, 20 books have been published
about his artwork.
