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= PHARES =

PHARES is a monumental interactive artwork by the artist Milène Guermont.

This sculpture made of golden aluminium and light can be considered as a “beacon of headlights” (“phare de phares” in French).

The First location of this artwork of 29 m high is next to the Obelisk on Place de la Concorde in Paris (from October 2015 till April 2016) where happened the first public test of electric lighting happened in the world in 1843.

It is labelled “COP21 / CMP11“(21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), “PARIS FOR THE CLIMATE” and by the international jury of “2015 international year of light“ launched by UNESCO.