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Hello art-book lovers, welcome to HR Giger's retrospective! We have hundreds more art photo books to come! “A disturbingly beautiful tribute to H.R. Giger’s nightmarish work.” Today another favourite of ours!! HR GIGER - Taschen - Limited edition At its essence, Giger’s art digs down into our psyches and touches our very deepest primal instincts and fears. His art stands in a category of its own. The proof of this lies in the intensity of his work and imagination, which I can only compare to Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon in their powers to provoke and disturb.” - Ridley Scott. Swiss artist HR Giger (1940–2014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this was just one of the most popular expressions of Giger’s biomechanical arsenal of creatures, which consistently merged hybrids of human and machine into images of haunting power and dark psyched
