Beyond Alien: H.R. Giger, is the the first and only major exhibition planned in Italy dedicated to Hans Ruedi Giger, who was one of the most visionary artists of the Second 20th century.

Introduced by Navigare s.r.l, in co-production with Glocal Project and ONO arte, the exhibition, which is curated by Marco Witzig, the highest international expert on the artist, will run from Oct. 5, 2024, to Feb. 16, 2025, at the Museo Mastio della Cittadella in Turin.

Well known to the general public as the man who created the imagery of the Alien movies, Hans Ruedi Giger is more than anything else a multifaceted artist with his own unique style, “biomechanical,” as he called it, and who has experimented with the most disparate techniques. The exhibition is designed to cover, ten years after his death, the whole career of the renowned Swiss master who has profoundly changed and influenced surrealism, sci-fi horror and contemporary gothic imagery.This unique event will be involving the city of Turin, with the support of the Municipality of Turin and the National Museum of Cinema, that will host a series of events, meetings and films.

H.R. Giger was one of the most evocative and attractive creators of the most recent years, the work of which inspires a huge fascination in the several artistic sectors of the underground. He was an artist with a conflicting personality who has been developing a very personal and eye-catching and iconic Artwork for the last four decades. His universe is wholly dark, thanks to a peculiar surrealism, which is both haughty and opulent, mechanical and anatomical, inspiring terror and admiration at the same time.

Giger, with his own unique style, became one of the greatest exponents of visionary and fantastic art of the 20th century, and despite its recognition in pop culture, his work has had limited approval in educational circles and is significantly missing from art history books.

As a consequence, this major retrospective is an opportunity to examine the place the work of an artist who has influenced and will continue to influence contemporary culture as a entire culture for a long time to come.

Marco Witzig, curator of the exhibition.

More than hundred original pieces, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, design objects and videos from the Giger Museum in Switzerland, directed by Carmen Giger, the artist’s widow, will be on display in an exhibition that will allow all fans to immerse themselves in the artist’s world and admire some of the most iconic pieces live, as well as delve into lesser-known aspects of Giger’s work. Four sections of the exhibition inspired by the most important areas developed by the master: cinema, music, surrealism and cosmic horror.

The section focusing on cinema will display the artworks that helped create the myth of the “Alien cycle,” but also those executed for Dune, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s never-realized film. Music is another essential element in the work of Giger, who made the covers for numerous records of bands such as Debbie Harry, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Magma, Dead Kennedys and many others. A section will then be reserved for surrealism, which Giger helped redefine in contemporary terms. At last, there is space for cosmic horror: the literary philosophy developed by the writer H.P. Lovecraft, which Giger transformed into visual imagery, creating disturbing atmospheres that seduce and disorient us at the same time.

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