Using a pool in the backyard of a seafront residence in Jávea, Spain, as his canvas, artist Felipe Pantone created a large-scale work of art featuring a clever play on color, light and water.
An unspoiled corner of the Mediterranean coast is the site of a somewhat unusual art intervention. Artist Felipe Pantone chose the bottom of a swimming pool in a seafront home in Jávea, Spain to express his art with an optical effect created with thousands of mosaic tesserae by Spanish tile manufacturer Onix. Pantone is an Argentinean-Spanish artist renowned for his colorful, pixeled and digitalized art works. For this project, the interior of a traditional swimming pool has provided this creative artist with the backdrop for an underwater prismatic spiral of color formed by glass mosaic tiles.
Pantone defined seven different colors for the design, which features more than 130,000 glass mosaic tiles. The result is another skillful transformation of space by the artist through a design and choice of a powerful material in a space that previously went completely unnoticed. Pantone has once again successfully created a large-scale project in a clever play on color and light, and on this occasion adding a further element -- water.