Constantly striving to improve life in Cannes and make the town ever more beautiful, in 2002 the City of Cannes began a vast programme of creating great mural paintings to be seen from the city streets.
This ambitious project was inaugurated on 21 May 2004 with an initial series of four monumental murals: Place Bernard Cornut-Gentille, Place du 18 Juin (Pont Carnot), Rue Louis Braille (Maison des Associations) & Boulevard Victor Tuby/Rue des Frères. The work was entrusted to A.Fresco, Fresqu’île and 7e Sens and their artists, specialized in this type of creation.
Inspired by motion pictures – the Cannes Film Festival in particular – these wall paintings, systematically submitted after completion for approval from the Head Architect of the Bâtiments de France, present the great figures of French and international cinema: Jean-Paul Belmondo, John Wayne, Bourvil, Vivien Leigh, Harold Lloyd, James Dean, Alfred Hitchcock…
After their success with the people of Cannes and visitors alike, a new series was created: among other, a superb portrait of Marilyn Monroe on the western façade of the Cannes Riviera Hotel, Gérard Philipe on Boulevard Victor Tuby and the inimitable Charlie Chaplin on Boulevard Vallombrosa.
Today, two new works inspired by the history of cinema and the railway grace the walls of the SNCF railway station: Jean Gabin in La Bête Humaine and the Lumière brothers’ Arrivée en gare de La Ciotat.
A genuine outdoor iconographic museum!
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