El mundo de Hr. Giger

Zusammenfassung

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the work of the Swiss contemporary artist H.R Giger. Known by his contribution in the movie Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979), his work has passed unnoticed for the historiography and the academic world. But nevertheless it has been raised as one of the most influential artists in the last decades. He is a versatile creator, draftsman, painter, sculptor, designer, whose oeuvre includes more than 40 years. Giger has developed a personal and unmistakable style coined by him itself as biomechanics, a concept that plays with the fusion of forms of natural (biological) and artificial (mechanical) origin. Among the most significant topics that he has developed, they emphasize the connection birth-life-death, disease, overpopulation, the figure of the monster and the magic. His art relates to the symbolism and with the surrealism, in fact he is a great admirer of Dalí. Giger's role in the contemporary culture has been notable, since he has influenced such different manifestations as fantastic art, horror and science fiction cinema, tattoo art, comic books and graphical design. Some avantgarde currents consider him a cult artist and value it as one of the makers of the emergent dark aesthetics, the appearance of a new Gothic style at the end of the century. But probably more interesting still, it is Giger's visionary character since already from his artistic beginnings he was raising the problematics of the cyborg and his medical and philosophical implications. Besides he is considered to be an initiator of currents and postmodern sensibilities as the New Flesh (a whole genre that develops the relation technique with the human body, the monstrosity and sadomasochism) and is admired by the writers of the cyberpunk.