Chromadynamica Pool by Felipe Pantone is Transformed with Over 130,000 Mosaic Tiles.

One of the most recognisable record covers of all time would have to be Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, Dark Side of the Moon. There would be no better setting than spending a night soaking in Felipe Pantone’s Chormadynamica and turning the volume up high on ‘A Great Gig in the Sky’, while quite literally staring into the cosmos. Located on the edge of a seafront home in Javea, Spain, there’s almost something transcendent about this unique swimming pool transformed by the Argentinian-Spanish artist.

While we may have seen pools tiled quite unusually in the past, very few have played with light, science and colour in the way that Chormadynamica Pool does. Pantone explains how he “embarked on a mission to create an unprecedented underwater design that transforms a simple residential pool into a dynamic canvas of radiant hues”, and it seems he was quite successful!

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Featuring over 130,000 mosaic pieces by a Spanish brand, Onix, each tile was meticulously placed. Appearing quite pixelated when empty, the pool seems like an 8-bit digital reflection of a prism rainbow. The magic, however, happens when you just add water. The seven distinct hues, spanning blue, yellow and red, were chosen to form what Pantone describes as “a constantly shifting rainbow that tricks the eye with the movement of water”.

With his ideas colliding somewhere between the analogue past and the digital revolution, Felipe Pantone’s work typically plays with prisms of neon gradients, geometric shapes, optical patterns and jagged grids. His pieces often “evoke a spirit where it feels like humans and machines will inevitably glitch alongside one another”.

Pantone’s creative process often leans into computer programs, translating intricate patterns into tangible works of art. For Chromadynamica Pool, the artist explained how he used digital testing as a means to “craft an underwater prismatic spiral of colour, blurring the line between the digital and physical world”.

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“Colour only happens because of light, and light is the only reason why life happens”, he shares. “Light and colour are the very essence of visual art, and thanks to television, computers and modern lighting, our perception of light and colour has changed completely.” The Chromadynamica Pool stands as Pantone’s testament to how the power of light and colour can transform an everyday association such as a pool into something that embraces science and technology. Pantone reminds us that it should “serve as a radiant reminder that art knows no boundaries and can turn even the most ordinary spaces into extraordinary experiences”.

The resulting pool, much like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album, exhibits a lyrical interplay between science, technological advancement, mysticism and a transient feeling that comes with it all.

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[Images courtesy of Felipe Pantone.]