The tree

Yves Carrey’s work located in the Nouveau Bassin bears the name L’Arbre. It was installed in 2003, it is the 2nd piece installed on the promenade. Yves Carrey is a Mulhouse artist who is very well known in the region’s artistic community. A welder by trade, he will very quickly put his mastery and know-how at the service of his art. His creative inspiration comes from his first job and he will transpose his manual work to an artistic and plastic work. The Tree was made with concrete irons, long rods of scrap metal that were recovered from the wasteland of old buildings in the potash mines. At the top of his work, there are flowers which are in fact old parts of agricultural vehicles. This work integrates very well, on the one hand because it refers to the environment (a tree among trees) but also because of its colour that blends in with the decor.