I was walking around Florence's Via dei Tornabuoni yesterday morning and couldn't resist taking a picture of Dior's window.
I wasn't really interested in the dress or the accessories in the window shop, but in the silvery props.
The floating baloons were obviously inspired by Andy Warhol's 1966 Silver Flotations at the Leo Castelli Gallery, yet the silvery spheres at the back looked very similar to the photo-multipliers of the giant Japanese stainless-steel tank filled with 50,000 tons of ultra pure water called Super-Kamiokande.
Launched in 1991 Super-Kamiokande is the world's most sensitive subatomic particle experiment.
Studying the neutrino properties through the observation of solar neutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos and man-made neutrinos, the experiment should enable us to understand how matter was created in the early universe.
Surely, seeing this mini super-sensitive neutrino-detecting globe in a window shop wasn't the highlight of the Pitti tradeshow, but, since this season's Pitti was rather uninspiring, with very few ideas and very few emotional moments, a glimpse of Pop Art and science in a window shop was definitely welcome.
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