Old Village Gets New Look With Lang/Baumann Geometric Street Painting (PHOTOS)

One will mostly find street art in an up-and-coming urban settings, often surrounded by cool young folk, warehouses and exclusive events held by cool young people in said warehouses. That is why this gigantic piece of street art by Lang/Bauman is so jarring. The electric geometric pattern pops out against the old-town village of Vercorin, Switzerland.

Lang/Baumann, Street Painting #5, Photo credit: L/B

Lang/Baumann, Street Painting #5, Photo credit: Robert Hofer

Lang/Baumann, Street Painting #5, Photo credit: Robert Hofer

Lang/Baumann, Street Painting #5, Photo credit: Robert Hofer

Every year the town challenges artists to create artworks which involve the entire city. The project was organized by a small association called R&art, founded by residents of the village. The sprawling shapes look digital in comparison to the old wooden facades of the buildings. As if we needed another reason to want to visit Switzerland!

Comments

[Litho-stone]

04:39 PM on 01/23/2012

Geez, try to not cross that yellow line when driving. 'I swear officer im not drunk!'

[HypocrisyAlarm]

12:43 PM on 01/23/2012

how ugly and awful> I hope it washes away a.s.a.p. am suprised that the Swiss tolerate this, they are so very clean...

[todays2centsworth]

11:00 AM on 01/23/2012

In the Domino's Pizza headquarters in Ann Arbor MIchigan there are colors painted throughout this very long, one floor building. The floors are concrete. You follow the color stripe that takes you to the department you are looking for. Very effective for the building that they have. Very silly looking for a town.

[Mrsbean54]

10:47 AM on 01/23/2012

Not a fan....it looks like a bus map.

This would be a great location for some optical illusion street art. You could make the streets look like huge crevaces with rope bridges across them. Anything but a bus map.

[invirginia]

11:42 AM on 01/23/2012

Yeah because optical illusion street art is so new and fresh. Never see that on Venice Beach or everywhere else.

[tyrant510]

03:43 AM on 01/23/2012

This is great. I love the contrast and tension it creates with the space and buildings around it.

[sev87]

12:39 AM on 01/23/2012

Why am I always so envious of that part of the world? It seems like a great place.

[JWoode]

12:26 AM on 01/23/2012

Whoever thought of that loved crop circles.

[AndyGra]

06:14 PM on 01/22/2012

Obviously, the intersection is not intended for high-speed traffic. It is really clever. Different. If you stop and look, get out of your car, then the art has done its work.

[Reality always bites]

03:16 PM on 01/22/2012

That could be really confusing if you were taking a cycling proficiency test

[bushfailure]

12:59 PM on 01/22/2012

Just hideous.

[Mr Hoodoo]

11:52 AM on 01/22/2012

Yikes.

How dischordant and unpleasant looking.

[imdesign]

05:34 PM on 01/21/2012

I love it when modern meet traditional, but this is a complete failure.

[Ppenguinator]

04:29 PM on 01/21/2012

Fantastic! I wish I could go myself.

[ElTan]

03:25 PM on 01/21/2012

Hideous. I'm sure it'd look great somewhere in the world, but did the artist even take into account the environment the art would be located in? The locale doesn't seem to have influenced the artwork at all.