Computer Animation Arts

In common with the squirming erotica of   Hans Bellmer , the artwork of Hans Rudolf Giger  is a psychosexual pick-and-mix of lust and loathing.  Best known as the Oscar-winning designer for Ridley Scott's 1979 'spam-in-a-can' sci-fi shocker, Alien , H. R. Giger is the artist your mother warned you about.  His bloodless, monochromatic world is characterised by orifices, labial, anal, mechanical; by phalluses lethal with teeth; with pox-ridden babies and  pentagrams; with machines hewn from cartilage and bone.  Giger's view of flesh is not the glistening pink of the pornographer, but rather the waxy shine of the embalmist - worse, these are necrophiliac dreams - or nightmares more accurately.  As an 'artist', Giger is disparaged and dismissed - a one-trick pony and probable misogynist - and yet, the popularity of his work is undiminished, his design for the Alien unsurpassed in terms of true 'other-worldliness'.   "Giger’s art has oft...