Video: Pool-non-pool. Fake Swimming Pool art project by Leandro Erlich
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Look into the pool and see people in it walking freely along the bottom, laughing, talking, breathing, jumping and even dancing - something from the realm of fantasy. But those who had a chance to visit the city of Kanazawa and visit The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art will disagree with you, because they were able not only to see this spectacle with their own eyes, but also to become its direct participants, jumping, running and laughing enough at the bottom of the pool, under the water column. This museum hosted a presentation of an unusual installation-illusion Fake swimming pool performed by Leandro Erlich … The readers of Culturology already know the masters of Leandro Ehrlich's illusory installations thanks to the art project with the collapsing door and the mirror installation Batiment. All of them are as original in appearance as they are simple in execution. We can say that the author "hooks" the audience on the hook of his cunning and ingenuity, because if you do not know how he managed to pull off a particular trick, art projects truly look like magic works of a magician-illusionist.
So, if we talk about the installation Fake Swimming Pool, then we see a pool filled to the brim with clean and transparent water, which from time to time ripples from the wind and glares in the sun, and also casts characteristic meandering shadows on the walls and bottom. The pool is equipped with all the necessary elements: there are sides, and steps, and a ladder here … But all this is not real, all this is fake, an illusion, an invention. Since the water in the pool is only 10 cm, and it splashes between two thick layers of plexiglass, installed in the pool in the form of a "roof". Entering a "room" with such a "roof", that is, into an illusory pool, you can imagine yourself in the underwater kingdom and see how the world looks like if you look at it from the bottom through the water column.
This installation is one of many art projects designed by Leandro Ehrlich. You can see all the works of the talented Argentinean on his website.
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