Marseille wants to create one of the largest urban street art routes
Posted Nov 28, 2022, 5:44 PM
It is a new piece of an ambitious project of open-air urban art trail which will be loaded on December 8 on the perimeter wall of a high school in 3e district of Marseille: a fresco of almost 300 m2 extolling the values of sport and collective work. For this installation in one of the most underprivileged districts of the city, the Méta 2 artistic creation center and the social innovation association Marseille solutions, at the origin of the initiative, called on a local artist – Bobar – and mobilized 16 young people enrolled in the first promotion of the school of MauMa (Urban Arts Museum of Marseille) that they created.
“Urban art is our vehicle for integration for former people from populations far from employment in related trades, such as communication and construction”, explains Camille Chapuis, president of Marseille solutions. Presented in this way, the project has made it possible to mobilize resources other than cultural ones from economic actors – the OM Foundation and the SNCF Foundation in the lead – and from the State, through Pôle emploi. Almost 35,000 euros were raised in this way.
XXL works
It will take ten times more to complete this project, which provides for the creation by 2026 of around a hundred works of street art on the gables of buildings in the north of the city. It is largely inspired by the Wynwood Walls experience, created three years ago in a disreputable district of Miami, in the United States. The district has since become one of the city’s “must-sees”, attracting 3 million visitors each year as well as dozens of start-ups, bars and trendy restaurants.
In Marseille, the MauMa has the same ambition. Its pedestrian already offers to discover a dozen giant works enhancing the cultural bubbling which has covered the walls of the city center in bright colors since the 1980s. urban planning of the Marseille conurbation.
On the edge of the Félix-Pyat city, the Orange group, for example, offered one of its walls for the creation of an XXL fresco in homage to the martyred Uighur people by the Chinese government. A little further on, a giant Mona Lisa made up of 6,207 colored dots has taken place on the side of a new building. Tens of thousands of tourists have already traveled the route. With the help of the tourist office, the MauMa now hopes seduce cruise lines, who land a stone’s throw away.
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