The Atelier Forville is a low-slung, utilitarian building with a wide, industrial-style storefront nestled right against the bustle of the Marché Forville. It operates as a dedicated space for artists to work and exhibit, salvaged from a…
Artists of Le Suquet
This walk takes you behind the ancient stone facades of Cannes\' oldest district to meet the painters, printmakers, and photographers shaping Le Suquet\'s independent art scene.
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1. Atelier Forville à Cannes
2. Echo Fine Arts
The storefront window at Echo Fine Arts displays a rotating selection of black and white photography, often featuring wide, desolate landscapes or intimate portraits printed on heavy archival paper. While many galleries in Cannes cater to…
3. Galerie Avner
Galerie Avner is defined by the heavy, rough-hewn wooden shutters that flank its entrance, standing out against the white stone typical of the old port area. This gallery occupies a space that once served as a traditional fisherman’s…
4. Cannes Fine Arts Association
The Cannes Fine Arts Association sits inside a building that mirrors the weathered stone and traditional tiled roofs of the old harbor. For decades, this site served as a vital meeting point for local artists who gathered to trade…
5. Galerie D'Art Zeana - Atelier D'Artiste
The white stone archway framing the Galerie D'Art Zeana stands out among the narrow, weathered facades of Le Vieux Port. Inside this workshop, artists spend their days painting canvases that spill onto the sidewalk, blurring the line…
6. Hamilton Irene
The Hamilton Irene in the Stanislas neighborhood is a cream-colored residential building distinguished by its wrought-iron balconies and repetitive, rhythmic window shutters. It sits as a quiet representative of the bourgeois apartment…
7. Suquet des Art(iste)s - Résidence d'artistes
The Suquet des Artistes is a former chapel with walls of rough, exposed stone and a heavy wooden door that marks the top of a winding path. In the nineteenth century, this building served as a morgue for the local hospital, where the…