Pre-Alien work of HR Giger on display at Swiss museum

Youthful works by Alien creator HR Giger will be shown at the Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts from Saturday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Photographs from the artist's youth in Chur, eastern Switzerland, are also on display until November 24. The exhibition is part of the Giger Year, which honours the artist on the tenth anniversary of his death. As the art museum explained at the opening of the exhibition, numerous photographic documents from Giger's youth in the cantonal capital have surfaced in his estate. They were published in a book for the first time on the tenth anniversary of his death and are now being presented at the Kunstmuseum. The personal photos are complemented by works and objects from the youthful years of the world-famous artist. The exhibition tells many stories that show a surprising view of an artist's youth, the museum's artistic director, Stephan Kunz, told the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA. 'Too one-sided an image' The public ...