| BIRTH MACHINE BABY
23” x 9” (58.5 x 23 cm) Edition: 23 in bronze and 23 in aluminum Price available on request. Adjusted to fluctuating currency exchange rate and the rising costs of bronze and aluminum Please direct inquiries to Museum HR Giger ©1998 H.R. Giger & Arh+ Editions |
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| ALUMINUM Photo: (c) Amy Ardrey | BRONZE Photo: (c) Marc Adrian Villas | ||||
| THE BIRTH MACHINE IS H.R. GIGER's ARTISTIC MANIFESTATION OF HIS STRONGLY HELD BELIEF THAT THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR CIVILIZATION IS THE APPROACHING OVERPOPULATION OF THE PLANET.  THE INSPIRATION FOR THE BIRTH MACHINE SCULPTURE AND THE BULLET BABIES IS THE 1967, PEN AND INK GIGER ARTWORK, "BIRTHMACHINE", A CUT-AWAY IMAGE OF A FULLY LOADED WALTHER PISTOL. AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION IN EITHER BRONZE OR ALUMINIUM, THE LIMITED EDITION BULLET BABY SCULPTURES SIT INSIDE THE SHELL OF A 9MM LUGER CASING: THE BOTTOM SURFACE OF THE SCULPTURE IS FINISHED TO LOOK LIKE A REAL BULLET AND IS MARKED '9MM GIGER', ALONG WITH THE ARTIST SIGNATURE AND THE EDITION NUMBER. CONCEIVED OVER 30 YEARS AGO, THE BIRTH MACHINE BABIES HAVE MADE APPEARANCES IN THE FOLLOWING GIGER PAINTINGS: - Work #40, "Noracyclin" 1965 - Work #30, "Supermarket" 1965 - "Ein Fressen für den Psychiater" 1966 - Work #85, "Birth Machine", 1967 - Work #86, "Force Man Out", Floh de Cologne serigraph, 1967 - Work #96, "Walpurgis", LP-Cover 1969 - Work #136, "A Rhesus positiv" a 4 color silkscreen portfolio 1970 - Work #181 "Assuan" 1972 - and also in the child-bearing machine integrated into the diagram of the Cheop Pyramid in Giger's 1989 short story, "Cthulhu Rising".  A "BIRTH MACHINE BABY" STANDS GUARD IN FRONT OF THE
HR GIGER MUSEUM IN GRUYERES, SWITZERLAND, AS WELL AS
THE COMPLETE "BIRTH MACHINE" SCULPTURE (1999, FABRICATED IN ALUMINUM, 200CM x 140CM x 25CM, EDITION OF 5), CONTAINING FOUR ALUMINUM BIRTH MACHINE BABIES. |
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 Photo: Dana Frank / (c) 1998 ARH+ Editions |
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H.R.Giger with the delivery team of the Birthmachine Baby, at the foundry, Polich Art Works, in Rock Tavern, N.Y. Photo (c): Dana Frank (6/4/98) |
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 The Birth Machine Baby in New York City |
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