ARTIST REASERCH - HR GIGER

Here our Geiger is known for many different commercial and non-commercial artworks and digital designs, one of his most famous is his work in the film alien and all three sequels. For this he received the “Academy award for Best achievement in visual effects” not just for not just the alien creatures also the other Wellesley environment.

He is recognised as one of the worlds foremost artists for fantastic realism. In Zürich he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of applied arts and by 1964 he was producing his first artworks, these mostly consisted of ink drawings and oil paintings. Not long after his first exhibition in 1969 he started to use an airbrush in his works and began to refine and perfect own unique freehand painting style. This freehand painting style led to the creation of most of his well-known works. He created a the most surrealistic biomechanical dreamscapes, this in time formed the cornerstone of his fame.

There have been more than 20 books published about Geiger’s artwork,n the most famous of these named Necronomicon published in 1977, became the visual inspiration of director Ridley Scott’s film alien.

From the onset of Geiger’s career he also worked in sculpture and had an abiding instinct to dent the core elements of his artistic vision beyond the confines of paper in the 3-D reality. But it wasn’t until 1988 that he was given the opportunity to design his own architectural and interior designed space. This was the Geiger bar in Tokyo Japan however it was another four years before his concepts were properly realised. He also created another bar, another Geiger bar in chair the city of his birth in 1992.

The top floor of this for level building has onshore complex houses and prime examples of Geiger’s vast private art collection, he does not only create his own Arbor also collect art from great artists of the past some of these include works by Salvador Dali, Ernest Fuchs, Gunther Brus, Hans Bellemer, and many more.

Even after all of this fame and all of the magnificent things he had created so far he continued in his creative journey and in 2003 he opened the here H.R Geiger Museum bar. Geiger’s designs for the 400-year-old space build upon and emphasise its pre-existing Gothic architecture giant skeletal archers cover a vaulted ceiling and together with the bars fantastic Stony furniture, bring about the building’s original mediaeval character and cathedral -like atmosphere.