Arcs de cercles complémentaires, Installation artwork in Tuileries Garden, France.

Arcs de cercles complémentaires is a marble sculpture made from Carrara stone with curved geometric forms that change their visual impact depending on the light and viewing angle. The work consists of several arcs at different heights and positions that together create a visual system where each curve complements the others.

Arcs de cercles complémentaires dates from 1999 and was a public commission from the French state, installed that same year in the Tuileries. Its six Carrara marble arcs were placed atop the vaults of the buttresses at the garden entrance on the Place de la Concorde side. One arc crowns the bust of Le Nôtre, the garden's designer.

The six Carrara marble arcs crown the vaults of the Tuileries terrace buttresses on the Place de la Concorde side, and one of them sits above the bust of Le Nôtre, the garden's designer. Morellet, born in Cholet in 1926, made fragmentation a recurring theme of his geometric abstraction, and here the curve echoes the long inclined planes running along the buttresses.

The sculpture is located in the open garden area and is accessible daily during Tuileries Garden hours. The best way to experience it is to walk around the work and view it from multiple angles to understand how the curves change their appearance.

One of the six Carrara marble arcs crowns the bust of André Le Nôtre, the garden's designer, at the entrance on the Place de la Concorde side. Morellet said the fragmented curve echoes the long inclined planes running along the same buttresses.