By foot, skateboard or bike, "La Virée" is an outdoor trail contoured by colourful artworks created amongst existing urban elements.
Situated in unexpected areas of Annecy, painted on walls, floors or under overpasses. These unique artworks are visible throughout the year and available for weekly visitors and those partaking in a Sunday stroll.
Free and sustainable, the trail will connect Annecy’s city centre with the new boroughs, promoting unknown areas of the city. Bringing the spotlight on 50 local and international artists along with their many art pieces ready to voice their poetic and societal expressions within the natural light. A patrimonial footprint on the landscape of the lakeside city of tomorrow.
"La Virée", an artistic and cultural cup of oxygen !
Useful information:
- To do on foot or by traditional bike or VAE: do not hesitate to pick up the map at the Tourist Office, at the Art by Friends gallery; also downloadable from the website.
- Comfortable shoes: beware the path along the Thiou can be muddy after the rain.
- By car: to get to the starting point located rue de la Citée: take advantage of the parking lot along the street. The route ends in the city center between the station and the Courier shopping center, plan a 15-20 minute walk to return to your car park (follow the route in the application).
- By bus: Bus Line number 4 from the station towards rue de la Cité + a few minutes' walk to return to the car park or to start the route at No. 22 rue de la Cité.
Andrea Wan is a Hong Kong based artist who draws stories linked to surrealist aesthetics. This mural of great sensitivity brings us into another world, in the depths of our subconscious.
Brokovich is an artist based in Annecy. Inspired by skateboarding culture and his native Jura region, Brokovich creates very colorful pieces of work. In the Prairie district.He involved the inhabitants, inviting them to bring a personal object, to incorporate it visually into the mural.
Chufy is a French artist from Lyon. Inspired by Cubism, abstraction and regularity are his forms of expression. He always plays with the architecture of the places where he paints.
Both visual artist and musician, Grems creates his mural on the walls of the Gabriel Fauré high school. He brilliantly performs in combining colors and lines.
Inspired by tattoos, Isaac Holland creates a surreal and organic mural, which surprises us with its bizarre and fantastic appearance. He is based in Vancouver, Canada.
Kashink is a French artist, feminist and quite eccentric. She always creates colorful and graphic works, inspired by different cultures. Masks and the notion of identity are her common thread. This mural takes up the heritage of Mexican murals.
Located in the horticultural center of the city, Lapin’s mural represents the stages of germination of a plant. “Lapin” meaning rabbit, will you find the animal hidden in the mural?This organic representation is associated with a geometric background, a difficult exercise with the roughness of the transformer!
MSHL is obsessed by the color blue. Based in Montreal, he plays with shades of natural colors and forms, emptiness and fullness. His abstract mural works along with the scenery of the Annecy mountains.
The graffiti and murals located under the ring road are constantly changing. Each year, during the 10/10 Festival, the walls are covered with new graffiti. A beautiful reflection on urban art and its ephemeral characteristic.
Debza's work is a beautiful mix between graffiti, tattoo, manga and kawaii’s culture. A light and endearing beauty comes out its large flowers. Originally from Toulouse, he is recognized by his peers for his great technical mastery.
Multidisciplinary artist from Montreal, Opire's mural tackles the consumer society. A committed artist, he is known for working with paint and creating his own colors.
An art gallery exhibiting mainly street-art works and promoting pop-culture. It is also a space directly dedicated to the sale of creations, an associative café, a "workshop" space and an event venue.Since April 2014, we have been operating in our own space for creation, exhibition and reception of the public. Every month, numerous events are organised which arouse the interest of a loyal and growing public. An art gallery, a space directly dedicated to the sale of creations, a café-bar, a "workshop" space... Exhibitions, creative workshops, video previews, concerts, launch of new collections, themed evenings are regularly proposed. Our wish is to help you discover artists from Annecy and elsewhere in a warm and friendly atmosphere with professionals to accompany you. The Art By Friends collective supports above all the local scene, and it is quite natural that actors of the cultural life of the lake city have come with enthusiasm and dynamism to join the project. In this team, we find Maximilien Minsk, Martine Romand, Oona Skari, Felix Ernoult, Nicolas Clemente, Juliette Travers, Roxane Gil and its founder Camille Regnaudin. Don't hesitate to come and meet us in this establishment of over 200 m2.
Phone : 06 77 63 13 61
Email : contact@artbyfriends.com
Website : onelink.to/viannecy
All year round.
Office de Tourisme du Lac d'Annecy - 08/03/2024
www.lac-annecy.com
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