The name HR Giger has been synonymous with Fantastic Art for the past 30 years. Giger was born in Chur, Switzerland in 1940. At age 22 he moved to Zurich to study architecture and industrial design. His powerful vision and creativity soon drew him to the fine arts, embarking on a multifaceted career as a painter, sculptor, designer and also, more recently, writer.

Acclaimed as one of the foremost Surrealists of the Century, Giger achieved
international fame with his work on Ridley Scott's film "ALIEN". In 1980
received the Academy Award for his designs of the film's alien life forms and
their environment, utilizing his unique concept and style of Biomechanics.
Giger's other high-profile film projects include "POLTERGEIST II", "ALIEN3", and "SPECIES".

The H.R. GIGER MUSEUM, the permanent home to many of Giger's key works including an impressive collection of Giger's paintings, sculptures and film designs, is taking the unprecedented step of offering for sale, directly via online
auction, a painting by the artist.

METAMORPHOSIS P8 Poltergeist II, 1985, 70 cm x 100 cm Acrylic on paper (click picture to enlarge)

Poltergeist II was filmed in 1985 as an MGM production and was directed by Brian Gibson. The "alien" artist who had, seven years before, changed the look of science fiction forever, was hired to call new monsters into life for the
sequel.

METAMORPHOSIS Phase Eight, the painting in auction, depicts one of several stages of the transformation of a worm in a tequila bottle swallowed by the actor Craig T. Nelson. Once regurgitated, the phallic looking mass turns into a primitive creature, still enveloped in a transparent birth-sack. This airbrush painting was the basis of the design of this key moment in the metamorphosis (P8) of the creature into the last stage of its development, The Great Beast.

This is a rare opportunity to own a unique piece of horror film history, an
original painting by H.R. Giger, the artist whose surreal vision of the future
profoundly touches something in all of ous, remapping our sense of what is "the
other".