![]() It’s an incongruously idyllic setting for the Swiss artist famous for translating his night terrors into surreal visions of biomechanical horror the day we arrive, a blizzard has transformed the landscape into Narnia, and the Giger sculptures guarding the museum’s entrance – a pack of goggled baby foetuses stacked inside a gun chamber and a rusted female torso with lethally spiked nipples – are encased in shrouds of snow. ![]() Most day-trippers visit this Alpine hilltop for the fondue, but others make the pilgrimage for a less wholesome attraction: in 1998, Hansruedi Giger – HR Giger as he’s better known – opened the rambling Chateau Saint-Germain here as a permanent home for his pitch-black work. Taken from the S/S18 issue of Another Man:Ī miniature train winds its way up from Lake Geneva to reach Gruyeres, a walled medieval town of picturesque wooden chalets topped by a fairy tale castle. ![]()
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