HR Giger

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Life is too short.... You have to live like every day could be your last.  With this in mind, I decided to plan a short trip to Switzerland, and visit the museum and bar of an artist that I adore since I was 10 years old.

Hans Ruedi Giger, is a legend.  His biomechanical imagery has tickled my imagination, and adoration for more then 20 years.  Since 15 years, he has his own museum, and bar in the small historical city of Gruyere.  So, I booked a hotel about 100 meters from the museum, asked a very good friend of mine, to join, and our road trip was scheduled.

Friday the 4th October, we left by car, and after an 8 hour drive, we arrived at our hotel.  Weather was good, the drive itself was big fun.  Imagine 2 adults, singing to music hits from the 80-90, for about 8 hours :-)
We arrived around 17u00, so we had time, to already visit the Giger bar.   The moment you enter, you are just intimidated by the design.  


The next day, I went to visit the museum itself.  I have all his art books in my possession, but seeing the real thing, just blew me away.  The detail of his airbrushed painting, are to be frankly, unbelievable.  Entering the room with his 'Spell' paintings, was even unreal.  We stayed there for about half an hour, just staring at all the images of these huge paintings.


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We stayed for a few hours at the museum.  It's much bigger then you would expect, and it's a must for every fan to see.  We even enjoyed some photo shoots of ghotic chicks :-)

Then we returned to the Giger Bar for the remainder of the day.  We enjoyed HR Giger Absinthe, a few glasses actually :D

In the end, we took about 300 photo's, lots of video, and had 2 days of fun.  I am not even starting to describe what it has done, for my own definition of art.  What I want to pursue, and what it has done in ways of finding my own style, and plans for the next years....

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mousykat's avatar
That's just awesome!