H.R. GINGER

H.R. GINGER                                                                                 

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H.R. Ginger (smiles in front of his work)

Country: Switzerland.
Profession: painter and sculptor.
Style: biomachine, fantastic realism,
human / machine, architecture, landscape, sex and horror.
Technique: Airbrush.

R.H. Ginger was best known as the creator of xenomorfo, Alien saga

Born February 5, 1940 in Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland.
He died on May 12, 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland.                               

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Scene for the film Dune.

Dune (part of a series).

Technical data.

• Title: Dune (part of a series).

• Dimensions: Unknown.
• Technique: Airbrush.
• Genre: Fantasy, biomachine landscape.
• Year: 1965

Short description.
A military building roughly to that is seen of immense proportions judging by the scale of the remains corpses on the floor and if not that thick thin clouds that presents behind.

The feeling of formality.

Transmits us death, the tubes that emerge below by way of ulcer tunnels seem to be the way to stay inside the catacombs. The seams and the feeling of are repulsively painful inflammation, and pain transmitted through forced slavery of a giant sentinel. 

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Brain Salad Surgery.

Technical data. 

Cover of the album Brain Salad Surgery.

• Title: Album art; Brain Salad Surgery.

• Dimensions: 34 x 34 cm (original size), 30 x 31 cm (vinyl cover).
• Technique: Acrylic on paper.
• Genre: Fantasy, biomachine.
• Year: 1973

Short description.

Front face of a woman with closed eyes and serene exprecion, against a dark background and light beam overhead.

The feeling of formality.

The bony strands of her hair hard extend forward, as if it were a living and retractable body, her bone structure depresses its almost human beauty, his face and his head around a tiara that lies in its spirituality with weight of the world by way of divine being, as if they were royalty who lives his life on the edge of what is already dead.

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Machine deliveries.

Gebarmaschine. 

Technical data.

• Title: Gebarmaschine.
• Dimensions: Unknown.
• Technique: Sculpture.
• Genre: Fantasy, biomachine.
• Year: 1999
• Stay: Gruyeres, Switzerland.

Short description.
Transverse section of a short firearm with ammunition infants, it is the mechanism of the machine that brings forth its charge against the outside world.

The feeling of formality.
The sense of an infant weapon load, the art of war and those who suffer mostthe genetic against nuclear weapons and biomachine, the aberration of a noble thought to express their disagreement against cruelty to show the world the atrocity and create the collective consciousness of how cruel humanity can be to individual interests.

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Alien spacecraft cabin. 

Technical data.

spacecraft cabin.

• Title: alien spacecraft cabin.
• Dimensions: Unknown
• Technique: Sculpture
• Genre: Fantasy, biomachine.
• Year: 1978

Short description.

The cabin of the spaceship alien, circular floor and walls with a concave elliptical overhead lights, illuminating the center, a space control.

The feeling of formality.

The shocking flashing overhead lights against the thicket gives the walls and their ribs, highlights the creek dark, the whole space with its guiding light to the center, you see that reveals a telescopic control, interconnected with the space through the floor and climbing walls and visually explains a capricious and too much rationale.

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Necronomicon IV and designs for Alien 

 Technical data.

Necronomicon IV

• Title: Necronomicon IV and designs for Alien xenomorfo.
• Dimensions: Unknown
• Technique: Airbrush
• Genre: Fantasy, biomachine, horror, human psychology.
• Year: 1976 and 1978

Brief Description Necronomicon IV.

Xenomorfo sketch alien.

Original art work, titled Necronomicon IV which would serve as inspiration for the design xenomorfo 1978. Dan O'Bannon whoever incorporate this work and HR Ginger design for the film. 

Brief Description Sketch xenomofo alien.
First sketches for the design of xenomorfo where he is seen standing fully erect, with a classic style alien eyes.

The feeling of formality.

His head worm-shaped, oblong and curved, as if it did could not bear all of its own weight due to the extension of this, falling from end to end transmitting a frightening result, causes shock to the look, as one of its features most characteristic definitely a sex symbol as much subliminal that falls back through his jaw from where it extends between teeth and manner of a phallic / oral toothed member other organ.

The body also no longer be the most suggestive makes us feel almost human physical pain or sorrow, highlights the ribs above abnormal rib cage, which also resembles her you see a sort of hybrid suit; biologically bound to a half machinery, it is painful to the most sinister folds of their striped forms without hesitation also maintains a stroke in afemino end; fingers, arms, sharp and long legs.

The final design devoid of visual organs gives an even more morbid and sinister touch, all these features inflict fear who admire less analytical way the alien created by HR Ginger due to the collective unconscious and the canons of beauty globalized.
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