Eduardo Villanueva

Fontain du bassin d' Apollon

Palais du Versalles, France.

This artwork or mischief consist in re-create a simulacrum of a terrorist act without causing serious consequences. The main act consist in throwing a bronze color powder ( a not harmful aniline, solvent and biodegradable)  into the water surreptitiously,  without anyone noticing and in a clandestine way, inside the Apolo fountain in the Versailles castle in France.

Louis XIV, the king called sun, obsessed by its own gardens, formed a very expensive stormwater system, aqueducts, hydraulic fountains and channels that demanded great cunning by engineers to fulfill his whim.

Through mimicry, the bronze aniline will paint the water and will form a mirror effect, which will have an impact of melting or dissolution of the sculpture by itself.

 The idea is to break the image of everyday reality, fulfilling the great fear and obsession of Louis XIV, who was extremely vain and selfish, when the people who take care of the castle will have necessarily to purge and clean the fountain, they will have to dredge the entire water system.