The Photobastei presents milestones in Hansruedi Giger's (1940 - 2014) career from his drawings in underground magazines to variations of the motifs characteristic of his erotic-morbid style "Atomkinder" (1963), "Biomechanoiden" (1969) and "Passagen" (1971-73). In his work cycle "Biomechanoiden" he anticipates the fusion of body and technology; in the work "Atomkinder" the fear of the extinction of mankind through nuclear war. In "Passagen" Giger refers to the trauma of birth and creates visual worlds far beyond individual experience that show the horrors of modern society.

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