The man who created the ultimate alien

HR Giger designed the space monster in Ridley Scott’s film Alien, drawing on demons of the past to provide an unsettling vision of the future. As Taschen publishes a new book of his work, the writer and critic Andreas J Hirsch looks at how the Swiss artist merged human and machine in his haunting images – giving expression to the collective fears of his age.
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