{"id":6808,"date":"2011-09-15T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2011-09-15T09:40:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:40:48","slug":"hard-hathr-gigeropens-to-nite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/09\/15\/hard-hathr-gigeropens-to-nite\/","title":{"rendered":"~HARD HAT\/HR GIGER\/opens to-nite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Hard-Hat-sept-2011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Hard-Hat-sept-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hard-Hat-sept-2011\" width=\"569\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Hard-Hat-sept-2011.jpg 569w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Hard-Hat-sept-2011-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HR GIGER &#8211; &#8216;Biomechanoid&#8217;, 1969<br \/>\nOPENING To-NITE \/ THURS SEPT 15, 2011 \/ 6-9 PM<br \/>\nthe show runs SEPT 15 &#8211; OCT 16, 2011<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hard-hat.ch\/welcome.php\">HARD HAT &#8211;  39, rue des Bains, Geneve, Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hard Hat is proud to present two historical series by HR GIGER.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biomechanoid<\/strong>, eight plates from 1969, brings into focus for the first time many of the themes and formal tropes that will define the Swiss artist&#8217;s works in the following decades: a fusion between flesh and machine brewing in the concrete entrails of a future necropolis. Infused with a chilling eroticism  each plate repeats, permutes and transforms a series of motifs, accounting for the successive states of the gestation of some incredible creature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Passagen<\/strong>, four photographic silkscreens form 1971, repeat a single motif, printed each time in a different two-color scheme. This nightmarish image &#8211; a detail of a garbage truck &#8211; stands halfway  between a vaginal orifice and the entrance of a forbidding mechanical world.<\/p>\n<p>Made at a time when HR Giger&#8217;s work was predominantly shown with in the mainstream field of contemporary art, these neo-Symbolist works display an acute Pop sensibility.  Both series were published by BRUNO BISHOPBERGER . . .<br \/>\n<em>~from the HARD HAT press release<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HR GIGER &#8211; &#8216;Biomechanoid&#8217;, 1969 OPENING To-NITE \/ THURS SEPT 15, 2011 \/ 6-9 PM the show runs SEPT 15 &#8211; OCT 16, 2011 HARD HAT &#8211; 39, rue des Bains, Geneve, Switzerland Hard Hat is proud to present two historical series by HR GIGER. Biomechanoid, eight plates from 1969, brings into focus for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}