H.R. Giger's Necronomicon

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In 1977, Giger released a book of his illustrations which was called The Necronomicon. It made his fans look for parallels between his paintings and Lovecraft’s Cthulhu worlds for many years. In fact, Giger just liked the name. This book called for the first wave of popularity for Hans Rudy, which even reached Hollywood. At the time, director Ridley Scott was working on the concept for Alien and couldn’t find an artist who could provide him with a suitable sketch depicting a bloodthirsty alien. At some point, the film operator showed Scott Giger’s Necronomicon, and when he saw the Necronom IV, he realized that his search was over. Giger even managed to gain the attention of one of the 20th century’s most important artists: Salvador Dalí. Dal í, who Giger cited as an influence, was introduced to his work through a mutual friend, the American painter Robert Venosa. It was Dal í who showed Giger’s work to the Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky when the latter was hoping to cast the famed Surrealist in his ambitious adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune (1965). Jodorowsky enlisted Giger to help with concept art for Dune, but when the project stalled, Giger’s foray into the world of film temporarily came to a halt. H. R. Giger’s artwork has most likely given you nightmares. The Swiss-born artist was renowned for inventing one of the most memorable creatures in film history: the xenomorph, the merciless extraterrestrial race that seeps at the core of the Alien saga.

Druhý bar byl otevřen v roce 2003 hned vedle Muzea HR Giger, které se nachází na hradě Gruyéres ve Švýcarsku.The upper tube-like structure ends in a concave shape at the tip, almost reminiscent of a can-opener shape. This echoes the curved, convex shape of the bulbous structure above it, as if it can almost fit into the shape below it. The bulbous structure above this is the end tip of the alien’s head, and it also has a skeletal creature inside, almost as if this is another type of womb or chamber. The alien’s head is long and horizontal, resembling a phallus shape. Its face appears frightening and garish. It has a large mouth that reveals sharp teeth as if it cannot be closed.

H.R. Giger next to the bust “Sil” from the science fiction film Species in the German Film Museum in Frankfurt (2009); de:Benutzer:Smalltown Boy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsGiger’s most notable artistic breakthrough was his depiction of human bodies and machinery in chilly, linked interactions, which he termed “biomechanical.” Ernst Fuchs, Dado, and Salvador Dalí were his primary influences.