Lang/Baumann — Sabina Lang, Daniel Baumann (Burgdorf, Switzerland)
Lang/Baumann — Sabina Lang, Daniel Baumann (Burgdorf, Switzerland)
"A line can be many things: a guiding line or a border between two fields, but it is also the most simple geometrical form that can be infinite."
Lang/Baumann was founded by Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, two Swiss artists who have been producing work collaboratively since the beginning of the 1990s. Their practice includes installations, sculptures, architectural interventions and "relational strategies". While celebrating beauty, participation and spectator enjoyment, their work critically engages with the notions of perception and public space, they say.
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(c) L/B - Module #2 - 2000 Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf CH, "Positionen"
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(c) L/B -Module #2 - 2000 Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf CH, "Positionen"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Entrance #3 - 2001 Swiss Institute, New York USA
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Entrance #3 - 2001 Swiss Institute, New York USA
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(c) L/B - Dynamo Kyiv - 2001 Stadion Dynamo Kiev, Kiev UKR, "Dreamgames"
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(c) L/B - Street Painting #1 - 2003 Art en plein Air, Môtiers CH
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(c) L/B - Street Painting #2 - 2003 Siedlung Hegianwandweg, Zurich
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(c) L/B - Spielfeld #3 - 2008 Helmhaus, Zurich CH, "Balls and Brains"
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(c) L/B - Spielfeld #3 - 2008 Helmhaus, Zurich CH, "Balls and Brains"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #4 (Kaufdorf) - 2008 Autofriedhof, Kaufdorf CH, "Nationale Kunstausstellung"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #6 - 2008 Fundacion Telefónica, Madrid ES, "La noche en blanco"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #6 - 2008 Fundacion Telefónica, Madrid ES, "La noche en blanco"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #6 - 2008 Fundacion Telefónica, Madrid ES, "La noche en blanco"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #6 - 2008 Fundacion Telefónica, Madrid ES, "La noche en blanco"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #6 - 2008 Fundacion Telefónica, Madrid ES, "La noche en blanco"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #6 - 2008 Fundacion Telefónica, Madrid ES, "La noche en blanco"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #6 - 2008 Fundacion Telefónica, Madrid ES, "La noche en blanco"
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(c) L/B - Spielfeld #4 (Patinoire) - 2009 Patinoire, La Clusaz F, "Acte3 Aravis"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Walls #18 - 2009 Magasin, Grenoble F, "Portrait de l'artiste en motocycliste. Olivier Mosset"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Walls #18 - 2009 Magasin, Grenoble F, "Portrait de l'artiste en motocycliste. Olivier Mosset"
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(c) L/B - Street Painting #5 (Vercorin) - 2010 R-Art, Vercorin CH, "Street Painting #5"
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(c) L/B - Street Painting #5 (Vercorin) - 2010 R-Art, Vercorin CH, "Street Painting #5"
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(c) L/B - Street Painting #5 (Vercorin) - 2010 R-Art, Vercorin CH, "Street Painting #5"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #4 (Paris) - 2010 Ecole Elementaire de Belleville, Paris F, "Nuit Blanche"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #4 (Paris) - 2010 Ecole Elementaire de Belleville, Paris F, "Nuit Blanche"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #4 (Paris) - 2010 Ecole Elementaire de Belleville, Paris F, "Nuit Blanche"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #4 (Paris) - 2010 Ecole Elementaire de Belleville, Paris F, "Nuit Blanche"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Bridge #1 - 2011 Puente Figueroa Alcorta, Recoleta, Buenos Aires AR, "Of Bridges and Borders"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Bridge #1 - 2011 Puente Figueroa Alcorta, Recoleta, Buenos Aires AR, "Of Bridges and Borders"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Bridge #1 - 2011 Puente Figueroa Alcorta, Recoleta, Buenos Aires AR, "Of Bridges and Borders"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Bridge #1 - 2011 Puente Figueroa Alcorta, Recoleta, Buenos Aires AR, "Of Bridges and Borders"
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(c) L/B - Street Painting #6 - 2011 Strelka Institute of Media, Design and Architecture, Moscow RU
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(c) L/B - Street Painting #6 - 2011 Strelka Institute of Media, Design and Architecture, Moscow RU
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(c) L/B - Street Painting #6 - 2011 Strelka Institute of Media, Design and Architecture, Moscow RU
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Walls #22 - 2012 Kunsthalle, Bern CH, "The Old, the New, the Different"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Walls #22 - 2012 Kunsthalle, Bern CH, "The Old, the New, the Different"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Walls #22 - 2012 Kunsthalle, Bern CH, "The Old, the New, the Different"
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(c) L/B - Beautiful Walls #22 - 2012 Kunsthalle, Bern CH, "The Old, the New, the Different"
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(c) L/B - Comfort #8 - 2010 Galeria Foksal, Warsaw PL
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(c) L/B - Comfort #8 - 2010 Galeria Foksal, Warsaw PL
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IdN v19n3: The Line Issue — Artist on the Front Line
A line is so much more than just the distance between two dots. It is the fundamental building-block that every artist employs – even if, like Jackson Pollock, they are simply dribbling paint onto a horizontal canvas. It is a signifier of innate talent: the critics speak of "bold" lines and "subtle" lines. One would be hard-pressed to think of any work of art that did not involve lines – even Malevich's notorious 1915 "Black Square" wouldn't have worked without an outline to define it.
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Bobby Breidholt (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"Music and design are incredibly important to each other. Of course, the two can live independently, but when you mix them together they become a much deeper experience."
Ragnar Freyr (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"I do not consider the minimalism in my work to be a message in itself. However, I believe that minimalism is a strong vehicle for honesty in design – and life. It requires that one strip away the un-needed and keep the essentials. One cannot go too far, though. Design needs to have soul – a flavour of some kind. It needs to be interesting."
Sigurður Oddsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"Like many graphic designers, I started out doing this so as to be able to make record covers. My heroes were guys like Storm Thorgerson and Roger Dean and I always hoped to be able to do great work like that. I am happy to have been able to do some – being a musician myself has perhaps helped me in some ways, as the music scene in Iceland is very tight-knit, everybody knows everyone."
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Sig Vicious (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"Why am I attracted to the combination of graphics and type? Because it is catastrophically amazing."
Dóri Andrésson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"I believe that many people, and many musicians, underestimate the power and the effect that visual art can bring to a music experience. That’s why we see a lot of bad album covers that add more or less nothing to the music or the experience when you listen to a new record."
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