Hr Giger — Necronomicon [1975, Pdf]

NECRONOMICON
Год выпуска: 1975
Àâòîð: HR GIGER
Жанр: biomechanic art
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: edition c zurich
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Because of its shocking graphics, this large-sized art book may not appear on many coffee tables. Doing serious work since 1966, Hans R. Giger toiled for many years as a relatively unknown graphic designer. His initial world-wide call to fame was the result of his artful and macabre design of the space creature in the movie, Alien, his success no doubt propelled into public view by the best selling Necronomicon art book. For his work In Alien he received an academy award in 1980.
The motifs of birth, death and sex are the predominant subjects of Giger’s art. Czech/American psychiatrist, Stanislav Grof, believes that death and sex are intimately linked with one another, especially during the time period around birth. In his book, The Cosmic Game, Grof calls this trinity of themes, important routes to transcendence and spirituality. He believes that there is deep connection between the three — a cosmic connection — which can allow us to reunite with the source of our being.
Dr Grof writes that it is understandable why birth and death are intimately related in the human psyche because for eons there was the ever present risk of fetus and/or mother dying during childbirth. For many, birth is extremely painful both psychologically and physically. On a symbolic level, the fetus may feel he has become born again after first having faced near death in the birth canal. He feels born again as he realizes that the birth ordeal is over and abandoning his previous aquatic existence, begins a new life as an air breathing being. Inexplicably, the trauma of birth can also trigger sexual arousal, both for the fetus and the delivering mother. In this respect, birth can be similar to other traumatically painful events, such as prolonged executions and torture.
It is the unholy alliance of those three motifs which is a commonly re-occurring theme in the works of the surrealistic painter, Hans R. Giger. In Beyond the Brain, Grof calls Giger «. . . a genius with an uncanny ability to portray the nightmarish world of the negative perinatal matrices.»
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