The classic status of Alien, the movie, is in large part due to Academy-Award winning artist and designer H.R. Giger. This book provides a complete illustrated record of the months of painstaking work that went into designing the most frightening movie monster of them all.
This collectable group of 22 beautifully designed Tarot cards is available in a handsome boxed set in either German or English language. Each card is a careful reproduction of one of Giger's paintings, and is interpreted by philosopher-magician Akron in a booklet of instructions, included with the set. To Akron Tarot is like an inexhaustible mine of symbols, suited to manifest Giger's aesthetics of apocalypse in literary style. Akron resorts to the tradition of the Tarot in order to convey the messages of Baphomet - a medieval secret symbol -- which is of special significance in Giger's work. H.R. Giger is a painter, Oscar-award winner and cult figure of an international artistic community, for which his aesthetics of the apocalypse represent inspiration and spiritual healing. His pictures are gripping, indeed sometimes shocking visions - they shake us from our unconsciousness as they relentlessly point to the hidden inner world of all things. The art of Giger is a journey to the most ancient destination of mankind: to birth and death, love and war, hope and the destruction of life.
Katalog k výstavě švýcarského surrealisty H R Gigera v Národním technickém muzeu v Praze.
Das Buch zu den Karten - Baphomet, der Tarot der Unterwelt ist ein Bilderzyklus von 23 Werken des Schweizer Malers, Designers und Oscar-Preisträgers H. R. Giger. Er führt uns zum ältesten Bestimmungsort der Menschheit: zu Visionen von Geburt und Tod, Liebe und Hass im Drama des Lebens. Die vielschichtige Symbolwelt der Tarotkarten ist für Akron das geeignete Medium, die apokalyptische Ästhetik in Gigers Bildern durch die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele mittels eines ariadnischen „Leitfadens“ zu einem philosophischen Netzwerk zu verknüpfen.