The childhood and youth of HR Giger in photographs and documents By Charly Bieler Hardback 192 pages, 82 colour and 153 b/w illustrations 21 x 27 cm Multilingual edition (German, English, French) @Scheidegger & Spiess
In this new book, the photographer Camille Vivier presents her recent work on the figure of the swiss artist HR Giger, author of the legendary creature from the film Alien. Through more than 200 images of Giger's private home and garden, sculptures, paintings and objects, the book is a tribute to the universe of one of the most celebrated representatives of fantastic realism.
Edited by Beda Achermann. With a text by Fabrice Paineau 1st edition, 2022 Text English and German Hardback 240 pages, 108 color and 71 b/w illustrations 26 x 35 cm
ENGLISH EDITION
First published in 2007, this only book to date on HR Giger’s early work features a comprehensive collection of his drawings, early airbrush paintings, and designs for oppressive environments. It examines Giger’s art from its origins and places it in an art history of horror. Most of the works shown in this volume are only rarely on public display. Here they are presented in dialogue with works by distinguished precursors such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco de Goya, Henry Fuseli, Max Klinger, and James Ensor.
Edited by Beat Stutzer 2024 Paperback 168 pages, 117 color and 17 b/w illustrations 20 x 26.5 cm Published by Scheidegger & Spiess
Enter a world of haunting power and dark psychedelia with this tribute to the biomechanic visions of HR Giger. The anniversary edition spans the artist’s painting, sculpture, film design, iconic album covers, and unique artist’s museum, with an essay by Andreas J. Hirsch, and an extensive biography based on contemporary quotes and Giger’s own statements.
TASCHEN EDITION
HR Giger, Hans Werner Holzwarth, Andreas J. Hirsch
Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.41 kg, 512 pages
French, english and german at the same time
Dans l’espace, personne ne vous entend crier. Le remorqueur interstellaire Nostromo est en route pour la Terre lorsque l’hibernation de l’équipage est interrompue par un appel de détresse venu d’un astéroïde inconnu. Quand l’équipe de sauvetage regagne le vaisseau, l’un d'eux, inconscient, n’est plus qu’un poids mort porté par ses camarades : sur son visage s’est plaqué, incrusté, une sorte de mollusque-ventouse, doté d’un œil sans regard… Avec ce « huitième passager », c’est la mort qui a pénétré dans l’astronef. Et le combat de toute une vie qui commence… Retrouvez pour la première fois l’intégrale des novélisations de la saga culte, dans un superbe volume agrémenté d’illustrations et photos couleur des films ! Alien : Le huitième passager Aliens : Le retour Alien 3 Alien : La résurrection
840 pages
Langue : français
Cartoons 1960-1967
Foreword by Steven Heller
Introduction by Philippe Kaenel
Edited by Ryan Standfest
Publisher - Nachtschatten Verlag Publication date - 05.2023 Hardcover Language - German 200 pages Edition - 1st edition 2023 Size - 240 × 305 mm Autor - Stanislav Grof
In 200 captivating pages, Stanislav Grof's Consciousness Research and Psychedelic Art takes the reader on a fascinating excursion through the human psyche - with a special focus on the interpretation of altered states of consciousness that make up the work of Swiss artist HR Giger (1940 - 2014).
Released on the 40th anniversary of Debbie Harry’s debut solo album KooKoo (1981), this book and exhibition collect a rarely seen and unpublished body of photographs by Chris Stein (American, b. 1950), capturing the alchemy of the collaboration between artist H.R. Giger and the Blondie frontwoman and lead vocalist
The book, designed by Swiss-based art direction firm Kasper-Florio with Samuel Bänziger and featuring a foreword by Alessio Ascari and an essay by Stephanie LaCava, will launch in Berlin with an exhibition at Reference Studios.
© Kaleidoscope
Franz Anatol Wyss | Hans-Ruedi Giger
Machen Menschen Maschinen?
Catalog for the exhibition from 19.03. - 09.07.2023
Text: Robin Byland
concept and design: Studio Amanda Haas, Basel
80 pages
79 illustrations
Scheidegger & Spiess, 2007. ed. by Beat Stutzer Weight - 1.1 kg Language - German 168 pages Size - 20.32 x 2.29 x 26.67 cm
Swiss artist HR Giger (1940-2014) has been world famous ever since he created the monster and special space atmosphere for Ridley Scott's science fiction classic Alien, for which he won an Oscar in 1980. Less well known is that Giger, who studied architecture and industrial design in Zurich, was previously a shooting star of the European art scene, exhibited internationally, and was collected by art market giants such as Warhol gallerist Bruno Bischofberger. With his fantastic realism, he took one of the most independent positions in the art scene of the 1960s and 1970s in the succession of Surrealism. This book presents for the first time HR Giger's early drawings, first works in spray gun technique, and oppressive environments; many of them have never been seen in public. Set in relation to works by precursors such as Piranesi, Goya, Klinger, Ensor, and Füssli, this book opens new perspectives on this provocative body of work. This book was published to accompany the exhibition at the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur from June 30 to September 9, 2007
Softcover with dust jacket in white color 108 pages 26.5 x 36.5 cm Language: English, Japanese Comes with a poster and two stickers Designed by Kasper-Florio Published by Kaleidoscope With texts by Alessio Ascari, Venus Lau, Hans Ulrich Obrist
The catalogue, designed by Swiss-based art direction firm Kasper-Florio with Samuel Bänziger, features a foreword by co-curator Alessio Ascari, a critical essay by Venus Lau, an interview with the late HR Giger by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Patrick Frey, and an interview with Sorayama by Ascari. It comes with a 50x70cm two-sided poster, and two 20cm die-cut stickers. Born and trained at opposite ends of the world, Sorayama and Giger are apparently at odds—one’s bright colors are swallowed by the other’s dark chiaroscuro; one’s enthusiastic outlook on technology borders with the other’s nightmarish dystopia; one’s “super-realism” challenges the other’s surrealism—yet they share more than meets the eye. Both emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, becoming acknowledged masters of airbrush painting and influential creators beyond the boundaries of the traditional art world, blurring the relationship between commercial and personal work. But more importantly, at the very core of their practice lies a similar concern: an obsessive investigation of AI, eternal life, and the fusion of organic and apparatus. Gynoids (female androids) are predominant subjects, conjuring the post-human and the apotheosis of the woman to reveal an underlying tension between life, death, power and desire.
Size : 21 x 26 cm
Language : English
Pages : 96
Language : French
Language : Spanish
Language : German
Originally published in 1981 by Ugly Publishing Zurich—Giger’s own fictional publishing house—this rare artist book is now republished by KALEIDOSCOPE on the occasion of the “HRGNYC” exhibition at Lomex Gallery, New York.
Softcover, 48 pages
28 x 39,5 cm
Language: English
A beautiful coffee table art book chronicling the extraordinary collaboration between Debbie Harry and H.R. Giger for Harry's 1981 solo album KooKoo. When the visual artist H.R. Giger, best known for his biomechanical creature and set design for seminal 1979 sci-fi-horror film Alien, encountered Debbie Harry, the punk icon and lead singer of globally successful new wave band Blondie, the results were sublime. The artwork for Harry’s 1981 debut solo KooKoo album cover was deemed so frightening it was originally banned on the London Underground. The fantastical videos for two of the tracks on the album, ‘Backfired’ and ‘Now I Know you Know,’ featured Giger himself piercing an Egyptian sarcophagus and a newly brunette Harry reimagined as a xenomorphic Giger creature. With photographs and words by Chris Stein, Harry’s long-term collaborator, artefacts and sketches from the Giger archive, and an introduction by Debbie Harry, this is an essential behind-the-scenes insight into the processes of an incredible creative partnership.
Hardcover – April 18, 2023
192 pages
Publisher : Titan Books
Hardcover, 660 pages, 48 b/w images
Language : English and German
Pages : 248
Illustrations : 105
Size : 24cm x 24cm
Hardcover
Unlimited Edition
By Stanislav Grof
Published by Nachtschatten Verlag
Publication 2014
Number of pages 248
Format 240 × 240 mm
Limited and numbered special edition! Cloth edition incl. fine art print of the cover picture.
format : 21x21cm language: English and German released to mark the HR Giger Museum's 25th anniversary design : Andy Davies
Publisher - Lappan Publishing House Publication date - December 31, 1996 Language - German 138 pages size - 30.9 x 2 x 31 cm
This comprehensive illustrated book documents all the film projects in which HR Giger has participated - from the early short films on 16mm film to his sensational designs for -Alien-, -Alien 3- and -Species-. More than 200 images and photos and just as many sketches of all realized, but also of the unrealized film projects are complemented by informative, witty and partly very personal texts by HR Giger, which give an insight into his way of thinking and working.
Publisher Patrick Frey Eds
Number of pages 304
Language English
The facsimile edition of the surrealist master's visionary sketches and notes for Brian Gibson's horror film Poltergeist II
Publisher: Taschen GmbH (1998) Language : German Hardcover : 120 pages Dimensions : 28.85 x 2.72 x 30.84 cm
Languages: English + German
Pages: 112
Size: 22 cm x 15 cm
Year: 1993
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