Chances are, H.R. Giger has given you a nightmare. The Swiss-born painter was responsible for creating one of the most iconic monsters in the history of the human imagination: the xenomorph, the ...
HR Giger drew on demons of the past to provide an unsettling vision of the future. As Taschen publishes a new book of his work, the writer and critic Andreas J Hirsch looks at how the Swiss artist ...
A Swiss artist whose name has become synonymous with the very concept of bionic horrors — Hans Ruedi Giger — forever altered the landscape of science fiction with the creation of the xenomorph.