Giger Museum

Everyone knows Alien, the movie franchise with countless spin-offs and prequels and sequels. But not everyone knows that the designer behind the… well, alien monster of the first movie, was a Swiss artists called H. R. Giger. (Somehow it seems to me that to make a dent in the world of fantasy one has to be remembered by fans with a name mostly composed of initials: J. R. R. Tolkien, P. C. Hodgell, George R. R. Martin, J. V. Jones, H. P. Lovecraft, C. S. Lewis, N. K. Jemisin, T. H. White, H. R. Giger, you get the idea.) Giger was an immense artist, one of the most important of the 20th century as far as the author of this lines is concerned. His work is impossible to compare to anyone else, it’s beyond eerie and magical, transcending, blending, and subliming visions of horror into erotica and science fiction. And thankfully here in Switzerland we have a museum dedicated to his work (well, as I wrote once in a De Programmatica Ipsum article, there are museums for everything imaginable…