Table of Contents

Foreword 7
BEAT S T U T Z E R
Between Stool and Bench: Aspects of Giger’s Reception 11
BEAT S T U T Z E R
I L L U S T R AT I O N S 1 : P ROLOGUE 17
Liberation Through Horror: Giger and the Fantastic in Art 25
CARLOS ARENAS
I L L U S T R AT I O N S 2 : WORKS BY H R G I G E R 37
The Beauty and Surrealism of HR Giger 71
F R I T Z B I L L E T E R
On Tachism, Bathtubs, and Garbage Crushers; or, Observations
and Remarks on Giger’s Pictorial Strategies 97
BEAT S T U T Z E R
Portrait of an Immortal Love: The Painting Li II 127
KATHLEEN BÜHLER
Appendix
Biography 151
Bibliography 155
List of Exhibited Works 159
Credits 166
The Authors 167

About the Author

Beat Stutzer is a Lucerne-based art historian, writer, and curator. He served as director of the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur from 1982–2011 and as curator of the Segantini Museum in St. Moritz from 1998–2016.