French menu number 5: pool, that’s art
Maybe because it’s an art to some extent. I have never been very good at merging, lying freely on the surface and drifting with the current. I admired my grandmother, who was so hungry on the surface, as well as other people. I can’t do it, I won’t rest in the water, I still have the forbidden art of a graceful, long pace, when the swimmer has no resistance, he just glides on the water.
I’m clear that swimmers are artists. And I may have discovered the connection in Roubaix, France, where La Piscine Museum is located. A place where art fans may meet former swimmers. The “Pool Museum” was established on the site of a former swimming pool, now there are two floors of modern works by great artists, painters and sculptors. Among them are Pablo Picasso and Robert De Niro senior, the father of a famous American actor.
In the middle of the museum, two shallow water tracks remain in memory of the former swimming pool, there are statues around them and all the paneling is reminiscent of a building from the 1930s.
When I visited the Piscine Museum, I realized why I was so worried about swimming. After all, it’s art. Just like the pool in Roubaix tells. And I don’t really consider myself an art connoisseur.
