Jorge Otero-Pailos is a New York-based artist and preservation architect best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings. Watershed Moment marks the first time that the Lyndhurst swimming pool building will be open to the public as a museum space. Today it is evocatively ruined but in a stabilized condition. Over the years it was destroyed by water leaking through the roof, causing plaster and wood elements to deteriorate. It was abandoned during World War II when coal was unavailable to heat the boilers. In its unrestored state, the building is spacious, unsealed, and well-ventilated with a clear directional path through the exhibition, providing ample social-distancing space between visitors.īuilt by Helen Gould in 1911, the Lyndhurst swimming pool building was designed as a Roman bath for the late Gilded Age elite.
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While perambulating the mosaic tile-inlaid pool deck, visitors can experience these 67-foot-long curtains of glowing latex while being enveloped by a series of water sounds recorded from throughout New York State.
The installation includes latex casts of the raw brick interior walls of the pool building suspended from ceiling joists over the empty swimming pool below. Combining water sounds and dust and conceived as a meditative space by artist and historic preservation expert Jorge Otero-Pailos, the installation invites visitors to pause and reflect on the memories, both personal, social, and environmental, that define each of us. Watershed Moment is a site-specific art installation commissioned to mark the opening of Lyndhurst’s cavernous and unrestored swimming pool building after a period of extensive stabilization of the building’s structure. Running until September 26th.įree entry to exhibit: Purchase of Daily Grounds Pass or Landscape Tour ticket required to enter the property by car.
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Open Saturdays and Sundays 11 am to 3 pm, free entry with purchase of Daily Grounds Pass and/or Tour ticket. Through this project, lomidze and gharibashvili created a public attraction point that can serve as a free recreational space, accessible to everyone, or even host various cultural events.Please read our COVID Visitor Requirements before purchasing tickets. you can watch the opening ceremony of the project here! Once the cement was dry, the entire surface was coated with a light blue color as a reminder of what the open-air stage once served as: a swimming pool. reinforced slabs were also formed in the process. this final design was made possible by building 7 cement block walls of increasingly different heights – and each space in-between the walls was filled and leveled with soil and gravel. To reflect the new function of the space, the pool was converted into an 8-leveled amphitheater with the terraced seats complemented by stairs and a ramp for greater accessibility. today, thanks to the repurposed swimming pool, the heart of the cinema town beats a little louder. though open for public access, the area is quite neglected with a few spots occupied by guerrilla artists and musical schools. The space was once an abandoned olympic swimming pool situated in a neglected cinema town with hollywood-esque undertones. Hidden in the left bank of the georgian capital, the swimming pool project by designers nikoloz lomidze and alexander gharibashvili is a recreational open-air stage held and executed through the platform of tbilisi architecture biennial 2020. The swimming pool project enlivens a neglected georgian town
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