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American sculptor Richard Serra gestures in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, as he talks while standing near his work "Clara-Clara", a 1983 steel work initially designed for the Tuileries Garden, that was recently reinstalled. Serra is in Paris for the inauguration of his exhibition at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, as part of Monumenta 2008. Beneath the delicate glass and filigree metal dome of Paris' Grand Palais, five mammoth steel monoliths, rust-brown and pockmarked, reach toward the sky. They're the work of celebrated American sculptor Richard Serra, who in a new exhibition manages to infuse the pieces that stand 76 feet tall and weigh 73 tons with an almost eerie weightlessness. The obelisk of the Concorde plaza is seen behind. (AP Photo/Remy Gabalda)