Florida reef transforms into underwater art gallery

 

An underwater art exhibition opens on an artificial reef in Key West, Florida. (Photo grabbed from Reuters video)

KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) — An artificial reef in the Florida Keys has become a temporary gallery for a sub sea art exhibition. Video released on Sunday (April 3) by the Florida Keys News Bureau shows divers hanging artwork on the 523-foot Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the world’s second-largest artificial reef located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary about seven miles south of Key West.

Over the weekend, divers installed a dozen photo illustrations, encased in Plexiglas and mounted on silicone-sealed steel frames, on the Vandenberg’s weather deck, more than 90 feet (27 meters) below the surface on the Atlantic Ocean, according to the Florida Keys News Bureau.

The exhibition, a creation of Austrian art photographer Andreas Franke, is a sequel to the artist’s “Sinking World” series which debuted on the Vandenberg in 2011, two years after the former Air Force missile tracking ship was sunk as an artificial reef.

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