Les Anneaux de Buren, Parc des Chantiers, Nantes, France
Les Anneaux de Buren, or Les Anneaux (the Rings), sculpture by Daniel Buren and Patrick Bouchain on the Quai des Antilles, on the Ile de Nantes, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The 18 steel rings were created for the contemporary art festival Estuaire in 2007, and are illuminated at night. They form part of the Parc des Chantiers, a 13 hectare public park on the industrial heritage site of the former shipyards, which closed in 1987. Behind is the Quai de la Fosse and the Maille-Breze, a French naval T 47-class destroyer commissioned in 1957, built by the built by Arsenal de Lorient, decommissioned in 1988 and now a museum ship. The ship is named after the French admiral Jean Armand de Maillr-Breze, 1619a"46, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
