ArtistsLang & Baumann
Lang/Baumann: Beautiful Steps #10 from Casino Luxembourg on Vimeo.
Beautiful Steps #10 by Lang/Baumann: a monumental art project for the north façade of Casino Luxembourg — Forum d’art contemporain.
In May 2014, Lang/Baumann installed a balcony truncated as a pyramid right in the middle of the north façade of the Casino, thus allowing a dialogue between the interior and the exterior spaces. The balcony, which is 3 metres deep, made from synthetic composite and painted white, looks from the outside like a closed geometric shape, like an architectural protuberance suspended in the air. Once inside the building, at the level of the first floor landing, you realise that this “balcony” can indeed be used as what it actually is…
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Street Painting #10
Street Painting #10 was conceived as a temporary project for the Fiac art fair.
A ribbon consisting of several, equally wide parallel stripes in pink, green, gray, black, and white spans the width of the street. The lines run from both sides of the street, at first straight towards the center, but from there repeatedly change direction at an oblique angle. The pattern of stripes creates the axis between the entrances of the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais. Street Painting #10 was conceived as a temporary project for the Fiac art fair.
It is a painting on which to walk: a bright carpet rolled out or a colorfield stretched into a dynamic new form. As one crosses through this zone, the painting on the pavement casts colorful reflections and creates an unusual experience.
Artwork produced for Fiac 2018, FIAC PROJECTS.
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Comfort #16 — 2017 Relais du Saint-Bernard, Valais/Wallis CH, « Triennale 2017 »
On the grounds of the highway rest stop Relais du Saint-Bernard there are two lakes. From one of them, a white hose filled with air jutted out of the water at an angle of 30° and a length of about 15 meters. The massive and absurd object was mounted on an invisible oval raft, turning gently in the wind.
Beautiful Entrance #7 — 2018 Kantonsschule, Wettingen CH
A relief of fifty pre-fabricated concrete elements is attached to the long, exterior wall of the recessed passageway that traverses the sports ground complex, offering a lateral view of the gym below. In changing combinations, ten basic forms with different inclinations and bends form a brusque, cliff-like wall, which as a whole is slightly upwardly inclined, and opens a view of the sky.
Comfort #3 — 2018 Borgo & Parco Scherrer, Morcote CH, « Lo spazio ritrovato »
In two historical buildings in the old town of Morcote, a transparent cylinder-shaped object has been placed in the window and filled with air until taut. The bubbles thus created bulge out of the openings of the façades into the airspace of the narrow alleyways.
Comfort #17 — 2018 le 109, Pôle de cultures contemporaines, Nice F
Three rectangular frames sewn from tubes of white textile were mounted on the roof of the former slaughterhouse and current cultural center in Nice. The inflatable tubes protruded vertically from the industrial ruins and docked on to it again at the other end, as though they would generate a bypass. The huge frames, placed tightly together, parallel, one behind the other, were visible from afar.
Lang & Baumann
Contemporary