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Exhibition rooms with airbrush paintings. Photo: © 2001 Louis StalderStaircase landing on 1st floor with oil paintings. Photo: © 2002 Alf BattigDeath in a Mosetrap. 1992. Acrylic on paper. 100 x 70 cm1 - Zodiac Sign Virgo, 1993, Aluminum, 80 x 70 x 40 cm, Photo: © 1994 Louis Stalder2 - America, 1968, Painted fiberglass, 85 x 75 x 20 cm3 - Zodiac Sign Pisces, 1993. Aluminum, 115 x 70 x 65 cm, Photo: © 1994 Louis Stalder4 - Tattoo Biomechanoid, 2004. Rusted metal, 13 x 13 x 17 cm, silver tattoo gun. Ltd. Ed. 500. HRGiger.com, Photo: © 2007 Amanda Dutton5 - Life-Support, 1993, Aluminum, 90 140 x 20 cm, Photo: © 2005 Vincent CastigliaTATTOO
Knickenfiwnk, 1988, Acrylic on paper100 x 70 cmround. And now that my art is onpermanent display, I can control theirenvironment and ensure that therooms and surroundings are suitable."Since it opened in 1998, the H.R.Giger Museum has nearly doubledin size. The top floor now housesthe artist's own private art collection,which includes over 600 works bySalvador Dalí, Ernest Fuchs, Dado,Bruno Weber, Günter Brus, ClaudeSandoz, Francois Burland, FriedrichKuhn, Joe Coleman, Sybille Ruppert,Andre Lassen, and among manyothers.Four exhibition rooms in the adjoiningwing of the building house theMuseum Gallery where, on a rotatingbasis, Giger curates one-man showsfor artists in his collection.The museum also houses Giger's filmdesign work for "Alien," "Poltergeist2," "Alien 3" and "Species." "Filmsfascinate me," Giger once said, "becauseI believe they have surpassedpainting as a way of communication."The mythological proportion and cultfollowing of the "Alien" movies, whosecreature is based on his paintings,"Necronom IV" and "Necronom V,"both created two years before RidleyScott had stumbled upon them,are due in great part to his powerfuldesigns.As an artist, Giger is responsible for,single-handedly, creating an astonishingand original new aesthetic in theuniverse, one that provokes profoundquestions regarding the future ofmankind. Through his artwork, he hasdared us to meditate upon the biologicalevolution of our species. If Giger'swork is disturbing, it's because fromhis visionary vantage point Giger forewarnsus of the inherent dangers ofour own upcoming mutations which,as he paints it, will not be a prettysight. As he once summed it up, "Ipaint what frightens me."SOCIETY
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