until the end of the demonstration in midAugust

Sitting on the terrace in lovers, overlooking the frémissantes waters, you wait for the sunset. A small cocktail Lack the candied cherry... It will be without them. Comfortably installed at the threshold of your mini-Pavilion asked 15 metres above the ground on the roof of a huge chimney, there is no question of down to Earth. You are going to live in full your night "arty" in "The Villa chimney", one of works headlights of the estuary contemporary art festival Second Edition), respect aesthetics and playful Union between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire. This signed madness of Japanese Tatzu Nishi, blink of an eye to the nearby Cordemais power station chimneys, is to rent (70 euros the night...) until the end of the demonstration, in mid-August.

An approach which summed up the spirit of estuary 2009. All exhibitions and works presented in Nantes to Saint-Nazaire (26 in total) have in common this evidence, this poetic support makes them immediately available to the greatest number. Planned three-part 2007, 2009, 2011 , the event will permanently tag axis between the two cities: at 7 perennial works by Edition, 20 "totems" designed by international stars will transform term estuary in artistic discovery trail.

Grand Master of the demonstration, Jean Blaise, patron of the centre culturel Nantes Le Lieu unique, invited performers of exception to open the festivities: three days in early June, the luxury Royal company travelled the territory with its Giants: "The giant of the Titanic and the underwater" a fairy tale parade which has upset large and small.

Another great attraction Nantes on the duration of the festival This is the work of Stéphane Thidet: "the Pack". The young artist dans "dropped" thirteen wolves dans the moat of the castle of the Duke of Brittany. It is suddenly plunged back into a wonderful world of fables medieval children love and howl with the wolves!

Riffs of birds

Magic also, artwork of celestial fellow-Mougenot, "From Here to Ear". The strange black box planted in the place of the Bouffay resonates agreements "hardcore" is not a teen rockers rehearsal hall. It is an elegant aviary, home to 40 birds, of mandarins, which perches are electric guitars. Posing on the ropes, they invent a random partition. Back to Stéphane Thidet, who, in the hotel area, developed also poetic work "Le Refuge", a house where it's raining inside. Nightfall some cables from single place it forget not to contemplate "The floating", the beautiful face of Laetitia Casta, "drowned" by Ange Leccia in the canal Saint-Félix.

Extraterrestrial light

Among the works bordering the estuary in addition to "La Villa chimney" , two coups de coeur: the spectacular "clock" of the Switzerland novel sign, scales on the lateral wall of concrete, Rezé plant; and the extension of "The Observatory" constructed by Tadashi Kawamata to Lavau-sur-Loire. The small Tower on the River is now connected to the village by a moving path of zen wood floating on the prairies and the reed beds.

The voyage to Saint-Nazaire is also rich in beautiful surprises between the suite of red triangles painted on the buildings of the port, a table-puzzle of two kilometres created in 2007 by Felice Varini. "The garden of the third landscape" of Gilles Clément, celebrating plants of bitumen and concrete, on the roof of the submarine base. and "The Vertical Works" to Anthony McCall extraterrestrial light cones, piercing the darkness of LiFE (in the heart of the base).

Il must be at least a weekend for leafing through this splendid picture enlumine and redraws a whole book.