Wednesday, September 1, 2010

To swim or not to swim in this pool

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Leandro’s pool is not just another pool - but has something special...it`s fake.
The pool is part of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa - the Western Capital of Japan.
You can walk into the exhibit and down some stairs into a blue room with the bottom part of some stairs and a roof of glass with water on top.
Upstairs, outside the room, you can look into a pool and see…people walking in the blue room!
A nifty bit of engineering by Leandro Erlich.



Leandro Erlich, an Argentinian artist, constructs installations or complete physical worlds which the individual enters. He uses whatever building materials necessary including mirrors and projections to create forms of reality.

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