The largest digital art center in the world is in France, and it’s probably not where you’d expect. Instead of being housed in a newly built, modern facility, the center for art is located in Bordeaux’s former World War II submarine base, an immense concrete structure built by the occupying Germans in 1943.
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Parts of the highly unusual concrete and steel space comprised of four large ponds had been repurposed for temporary artistic and cultural events in the past, but they are now devoted to permanent exhibitions. After a seven-week delay due to France’s coronavirus lockdown, Les Bassins de Lumières (The Ponds of Lights) digital art center opened on June 10 with an amazing, immersive display of Gustav Klimt and Paul Klee’s work projected on the venue’s walls and reflected in the ponds’ water.
