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SUMMARY:Lang/Baumann - Up #4
DTSTART:20200617T000000
DTEND:20210601T235900
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Lang/Baumann\, duo d'artistes suisses\n> Video of the perilous
  installation of the sculpture Up #4\n\nThe Swiss artist duo Lang/Baumann 
 (L/B) was invited by the CDH-Culture to imagine and create a sculpture ins
 talled from June to December 2020 in a patio of the Rolex Learning Center.
  With its 9\,2 m. height\, Up #4 is a masterful response to the architectu
 re of the Rolex Learning Center\, which is celebrating its 10th anniversar
 y this year.\n\nOpening: Thursday\, September 24\, at 17h.\n> Attend the o
 pening (mandatory registration)\n\nSince 1990\, Sabina Lang (1972) and Dan
 iel Baumann (1967) have been working as a duo. Installations\, sculptures\
 , wall or floor paintings and architectural interventions constitute a set
  of artistic practices that include a common element of anchoring and refe
 rence: space. Most of their works are specific to the site that receives t
 hem. At EPFL\, they have sought to understand in a global and detailed man
 ner the components of the place\, the architecture and the context. The Ro
 lex Learning Center has become their object of knowledge and their action 
 aims to give a replica\, as in a play\, to this so original architecture.\
 n\nThe opening will take place in September 2020\n\nUp #4\nTubular structu
 re in white lacquered steel\nHeight: 8.75 m.\nSurface area : 43 m2\nWeight
 : 2.4 t.\n> Installation video\n\nUp #4 rests on the ground and rises diag
 onally to the sky\, crossing the circular space of the patio while buttres
 sing itself against one of the walls. A stretched and bent U-shape obscure
 s the circular space. Taking up the curves of the building in its moulding
 \, the structure with broken angles evokes both a ladder and a slide and o
 ffers\, by securing it to the floor\, a sort of escape from the inside to 
 the outside. One of the major characteristics of the Rolex Learning Center
  is the connection between the inside and the outside\, Up #4 highlights t
 his exchange and operates a kind of extension of the building\, an increas
 e in the form of a fleeting support on the ground and a push to the vertic
 al\, a dimension absent from the horizontality of the building. It also ad
 ds an illusion of imbalance in this very balanced space. Clever and slight
 ly off-beat\, this sculpture creates the unexpected in a known and familia
 r place.\n\nArtists:\nSabina Lang and Daniel Baumann (Lang/Baumann) live i
 n Burgdorf in the canton of Bern. In 2002\, they made themselves known to 
 a broad public with the creation of Everland\, a vintage hotel room instal
 led on Lake Neuchâtel in Yverdon-les-Bains as part of Expo.02. This unusu
 al capsule then took its place on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
 . Often in situ and linked to public space or architecture\, their works a
 re ephemeral or permanent installations in parks\, streets\, buildings\, m
 useums and art centres\, mainly in Switzerland and Europe. Both artists wo
 rk with a wide range of materials: wood\, metal\, paint\, and inflatable s
 tructures and excel in projects that divert familiar objects from their us
 ual use or context.\n> Lang/Baumann website\n> Article in "Journal a - for
  architecture and art"
LOCATION:Patio extérieur du Rolex Learning Center
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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