COUL'HEURES D'AUTOMNE
International Urban Art Festival
Created in 2020, the Coul’Heures d’Automne International Urban Art Festival is jointly organized by Label Note and the city of Antibes Juan-les-Pins. This unique event on the Côte d’Azur, with the aim of promoting urban art and involving residents in a set of creative processes, allows for another vision of our environment and the place of art in public space.
Large-scale mural performances, installations, participatory workshops and meetings take place every year in the city of Antibes Juan-les-Pins during the 15 days of the All Saints' Day holiday.
Each year, the festival increases the involvement of professionals, public and private partners, training centres, etc. It represents the ideal opportunity to create bridges across borders. This has been possible with Chile and Estonia in particular, thanks to links with French institutes and embassies.
8 WALL PERFORMANCES
1 ROLLING WORK
ANNABELLE TATTU (France)
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A versatile and all-round artist, Annabelle TATTU gradually awakens her dream in our reality. All media are good to invite us to dreamlike experiences: from oil on canvas to fresco, from spray paint to sculpture, in her studio as well as outdoors, the main thing is to give life to her fantastic and intriguing universe. Recurring and iconic figures alongside a sensitive and endearing bestiary illustrate a constant dialogue between her imagination and her characters. The singularity of her shapes and colors becomes her signature.
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She arouses emotion through the stories she composes, materializing for us the mysterious and the elusive.
Her sensitivity offers us a modern and vibrant poetry that breathes its energy and joy into urban art. We willingly let our mind escape into its bubble to give our reality the colors of its dream.
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MILLO (Italie)
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"Italian artist Francesco Camillo Giorgino, known as Millo, paints large-scale murals that depict friendly locals exploring their urban surroundings.
He uses simple black-and-white lines with splashes of color when appropriate, and often incorporates architectural elements into his multi-story paintings." C. Jobson, Colossal.
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Millo has participated in several street art festivals and NGO art events around the world.
His works have been exhibited in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Seoul, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Milan, Rome, Florence, etc.
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MARKE x FREE
Collaborative Wall Performance
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Artist from the North, he leaves Lille for Antibes and takes his art with him.
Signatures, graffiti, frescoes, no matter where and how, he makes the ink flow: emptying his sprays and markers has no more secrets for him. He sets his style, knows how to make his gold letters shine or explode the colors with a style all his own.
FREE is impact, excess, profusion, the art of being raw and wild with delicacy.
Formerly a tagger accustomed to the rails and hugging the walls, today a decorative painter, abstract or graphic, here is something to wear his name wonderfully.
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AROKE
AROKE is a young 26-year-old artist, based on the Côte d'Azur, passionate about graffiti and street art since his youngest age.
A fan of urban art, he learned, developed and then perfected his techniques in the street. A year ago, he created his decoration company (interior and exterior) called ARTROK CUSTOM to live off his passion. Creative and innovative spirit, AROKE loves challenges, ready to satisfy all the fans and requests (comics, portraits, lettering, realism ...).
A locally recognized artist, he aims to export his talent internationally.
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ALLIAS (France)
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Self-taught painter born in Lille in 1989, Allias began painting at the age of 16. His artistic career took off as he traveled the world between Latin America, Africa and South East Asia where he settled for several years.
Travels that nourished his inspiration and developed his creativity. Challenging media and techniques, Allias moved from canvas to murals mixing calligraphy, pop art and graffiti.
He thus refined day after day an inimitable pictorial singularity that he called "Hybrid Graffiti".
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Allias plays on materials, volumes, the mix of tools (brush, garden sprayer, roller, spray can...) and the balance of colors, transforming the apparent chaos of the abstract into the matrix of an original work.
Both raw and academic, Allias' work is part of the refusal of classifications that confine to claim a quest for graphic innovation in perpetual motion.
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ËRELL (France)
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Artist / Designer Ërell experiments with an ephemeral form of appropriation of urban space. His practice is rooted in graffiti in Bordeaux in the early 2000s. From 2006, nourished in particular by minimal art, urban art and organic design, he undertook a work of simplification of his signature. Inspired in particular by Olivier Stack, East Erik, Jürgen Mayer or Sol Lewitt and his work "Variations of Incomplete Open Cube", he will end up reducing it to a simple geometric shape, the hexagon which he will subsequently split.
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The genesis of this new identity involves the transformation of a handwritten signature, initially a tag, into a modular and reproducible visual emblem whose main function is to be identifiable by all, while being striking and lively. From this new identity comes an infinity of combinations - the Figures. His compositions integrate certain characteristics of typography: variations of alignments and approaches, dialogues between forms and counter-forms, games with lines, masses, solids and voids. They are generated using typographic construction grids and are made up of its modules reproduced using manufactured tools such as punches, tracing templates, stencils, or printing matrices. In the street, his signature "motifs" proceed to a form of "urban contamination", which consists of the systematic and compulsive installation of abstract compositions.
Throughout his studies at ESADSE*, he built bridges between his street practice and his design training. This transversality fueled the transformation of his graffiti practice into a work on geometric abstraction. This creative process, inherited from a hybridization between graphic design and graffiti, frees itself from the codes of the latter in form, thus offering the opportunity to develop his writing according to the media and techniques used.
In 2016, under the impetus of Nicolas Laugero Lasserre and his Galerie Artistik Rezo in Paris, he began a production work in the studio. In his work as a visual artist, he calls upon different skills, notably acquired during his design training. His signature, which has become writing, is a pretext for urban exploration and plastic experimentation.
NEAN (Belgique)
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Born in 1991, NEAN lives and works in Brussels. He is interested in the moment, in taking a picture, in a minute of calm, in a particular atmosphere. He creates from photos that he revisits with spray paint, paint and pencil. Self-taught, he has always been interested in portraiture and works on all media: from paper to walls.
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He draws inspiration from traditional painting to work on a stunning realism brought up to date by portraying his
entourage. His work is nostalgic, each of his drawings stems from a particular style that is his, from his interest in times gone by, a vague memory.
His drawings, portraits and landscapes, have the same impact as a photograph with which we can identify.
NEAN is recognized for his exceptional treatment of light since from nothing, he creates hypnotizing atmospheres. Whether it is drawing, painting or frescoes, NEAN amazes with his treatment of colors and his technique.
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RÉMI TOURNIER (France)
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Originally from Lot and living near Toulouse, Rémi Tournier was part of the duo SISMIKAZOT from 2012 to 2021, with whom he developed a unique artistic and pictorial identity.
Coming from the Toulouse graffiti movement, he had the chance to paint in pairs all over France and abroad, in Morocco, Albania, Portugal, Belgium...
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Passionate about photography and encounters, he has been evolving since 2021 in a mainly figurative style with some remnants of urban art. Through his painting, he wishes to be able to exchange, share and transmit what touches him, his vision of life and society in a poetry that leaves room for reflection and questioning. He paints stories and through scenes of daily life, portraits, but also plant compositions, objects and still lifes. He likes to reflect and draw inspiration from human functioning and relationships as a whole. The place of writings and text in his work is essential: they allow him to paint works that question, but also to read a painting from an angle that would not appear without the text.
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The M.U.R. is coming to Antibes!
Founded in 2003, the association Le M.U.R. promotes urban art and is deployed in the four corners of France and Europe. The M.U.R. Antibes will highlight the world of artists from the region over several years.
Cyril Gouyette, artistic director of the M.U.R. Oberkampf and the M.U.R. Bastille has selected Kogaone as the first artist to inaugurate the M.U.R. Antibes.
KOGAONE (France)
Kogaone is a multi-sport and multi-technique painter from Metz.
His works mark the viewer's mind with their dark irony, their varied palettes and their unusual and even disturbing combinations.
His work is inspired by the works of masters as well as by the Human inscribed in the codes of his time. A careful observer of his contemporaries and their often contradictory natures, he explores the alteration, the paradox, the discomfort, which arise when the familiar is distorted or fractured by external influences.
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He distorts a scene of life, moves or deforms fragments, or even combines/opposes photorealism to a more raw and expressionist painting.
Through his contrasts of shapes, colors or materials, he plays with the notion of realism that he stretches to the point of abstraction. These contrasting ideas are then frozen, under the brush, in a definitive visual unity. It is a way of discovering and accepting the singular beauty that is revealed in hesitation, the unfinished, the imperfection.
6 ARTISTS FROM THE AZUREAN TERRITORY
6 COUL'BOXES AND 1 EXHIBITION
This year again, 6 artists from the Azurian territory will be at work for the renewal of the annual exhibition "Here artists have made the wall..." at La sChOOL (from October 21 to November 2) and the invasion of the strongholds of Antibes Juan-Les-Pins for the creation of ephemeral works on the essential COUL'BOXES.
Floya Jam
Floya Jam has a degree in painting, literature, graphics, decoration, with a Bac Pro level in graphic communication. Her experience acquired in the field of animation with children and as part of her support for business creation allowed her to be rewarded for the Prix Talent des Cités (Emergence Category) and the Coup de Cœur du Jury (Talents de la Culture) in Marseille in 2013.
Since 2011 she has been a street artist; she discovered street painting on the Place d'Armes in Toulon during a festival and since then, she has participated in several international festivals, in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Florida in the United States, Mexico...
A fan of color but also of precise and ultra-detailed patterns, the artist also juggles with ease between chalks on the ground in anamorphosis, participatory mandala, felt-tip pens and pens on canvas or paper, spray paint and mural painting. Floya draws her inspiration from her environment: patterns from nature, a multitude of colors and cheerfulness embellished with swirls and rounded details.
Siera
Siera, originally from the Côte d'Azur, is a French painter and muralist.
His style was born in the streets of Marseille, which he walked for several years alongside other artists. During his studies at a graphic arts school, he drew inspiration for his work from the Street Art movement.
Passionate about writing and scripts, the mix between realism and calligrams becomes a way to convey several messages through his work, like a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Today he travels all over France to create frescoes, and sells his paintings through a website: www.siera-artiste.com.
Olias
Gaetan Olias is a French artist and designer born in 1996 based in La Croix-Valmer. After studying graphic design, it was natural for him to start freelancing. He developed a graphic style in which the question of pattern is predominant. He works around an emblematic character. By declining this figure in various patterns, he explores a very framed, illustrative and colorful graphic universe. His work speaks to us of imbrication, of piles. We easily understand that it is the compositions and patterns that interest him.
In a very graphic style, as much in street art as in illustration, his work speaks to us of living together, of connection but above all of softness and rest. His images are a real pause, an invitation to calm and tenderness. A true jack of all trades, he explores many mediums, ranging from ceramics to resin, including scenography and tapestry. "But there is nothing better than painting a wall" he tells us. An artist to follow!
Laura Divanak
I am a self-taught painter born in Rennes in 1987 and I have lived in Antibes for over 15 years. I left my job as a makeup artist 5 years ago to blossom in painting. For 3 years, I developed my own customization stand in a concept store in Cap 3000, then last year, I chose to turn to painting on canvas and let my creativity speak!
My creations are colorful, very contrasting and fall into the category of contemporary art. I like to play with textures and for that I use mixed techniques: collage, spray paint, brushes, knife, airbrush... In the majority of my works you will find Babatchou, my little Provencal mascot. I created this character based on the memory of an old patched bear that my father had when he was little because I loved the emotion it gave off. I gradually created a universe around this little bear with characters that come back regularly like Nina, the little girl with the bun. I like the complicity that comes out when I paint them together. I try to convey poetry in each of my works to awaken tenderness and empathy in us and sometimes take us back to our childhood... Urban art also has a lot of influence on my style and I like to add this touch of "street art" in my creations...
GuiuchiyArt
Guida Uchiyama (@guiuchiyart), born in 1990 in the heart of Amazonas in Brazil, is an artist of Brazilian-Japanese origin. She studied at the University of Visual Arts in Manaus before moving to France in 2013. Developing a contrasting style on canvas, she began to adapt her visuals to walls in 2022, bringing a new dimension to her work.
Her personal art, inspired by female and child portraits, creates an awakening universe influenced by nature, geometry and patterns that visually enrich her compositions. Her works feature black and white characters on graphic backgrounds enhanced with colors, harmoniously merging natural elements and geometric shapes to produce unique and captivating compositions.
OCMvibration
OCMvibration. Eye Heart Hand. The Eye observes, the Heart feels an emotion, and the Hand translates a gesture to express this emotion. This is the virtuous spiral of the painter according to him. Vibration, because everything around us is vibration.
A great fan of telescopic poles, adept at homemade brushes and rollers, OCMvibration gradually abandoned the spray can to cook only with oil and acrylic. Coming from a largely self-taught background, his training was refined thanks to the integration of a classical art school.
A figurative painter largely influenced by the impressionist movement, a painter of shadow and light, OCMvibration is a muralist painter in perpetual mutation.
The subtlety of the colors of his palette and the simplicity of his subjects give rise to rich emotions.
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