So will you be able to find them all? The centre for Urban Art and Music la sChOOL welcomes you to discover many of them until 7 November.
20 Minutes
03/11/2021
From 23 October to 7 November, the Coul'Heures d'Automne International Urban Art Festival will be showcasing murals. Graffiti, tags and mosaics take over the city walls. 25 street artists let their imagination run wild.
Antibes and Juan-les-Pins as an open-air museum. Street-art invites itself into the daily life of the inhabitants and visitors by exposing itself on walls, facades, panels or even a power station. 25 French and international artists are colouring the streets during the holidays for the second edition of the International Autumn Festival Coul'Heures.
Place nationale, boulevard Raymond-Poincaré, route de Saint-Jean, everywhere in the city, you can discover the painted works. These giant murals will remain for two years before being erased by the passage of time.
The visitors, actors of the festival
Last year's edition was a success. "We have an absolutely extraordinary support from the people of Antibes, of all ages, it affects all generations. Many people call us and say " thank you for doing this for our city".. The great quality of urban art, whether you like it or not, is that people appreciate the gesture and that it becomes part of their daily life. And we change the way we look at our urban environment". explains Skio, street-artist and organiser of the festival.
César Malfi is a 25-year-old street artist from Nice. He has embarked on a giant fresco representing his interpretation of the Pietà, the marble statue by Michelangelo. "The core of my artistic work is to bring back works that already have artistic legitimacy, such as works from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, to democratise street art and give it additional legitimacy. To show that urban art, which is quite modern, is nevertheless part of the history of art. It didn't come completely out of nowhere."
In addition to the walls, the festival offers coul'boxes. Ephemeral panels on which graffiti artists and novices can create. Workshops for the youngest are even organised, notably at the Pinède Gould in Juan-les-Pins.