Moûtiers and Bourg-Saint-Maurice compete in cultural initiatives to exist beyond skiing. The first organizes a street art festival in early September when the second presents a photo route and a new graffitiings fresco.
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In Moûtiers, in Savoy, in front of the 90 square meter fresco then … Who is the strongest ?, Signed Graffmatt and Amok, denouncing the negative impact of man on the animal, two municipal police officers Converse. “It’s great, huh? Before this street art journey, they were gray walls. Today, it’s colorful, we see lots of people taking photos. It would be good to repaint the castle of Water, up there, it would make us a better advertisement … “
Better advertising, Moûtiers, 3,500 inhabitants, a city at the bottom of the Tarentaise valley, needed it. Whether you arrive from the train station or by car, the first impression is the same: lowered HLM and pylons, an industrial setting that hardly encourages dwelling. But from September 5 to 11, the third city street art festival awaits more than 2,000 people.
27 kilometers away, in the hollow of this same Tarentaise, and until the same September 11, in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, 7,200 inhabitants, the holidaymaker can wander in the city according to a photographic circuit which Presents a scientific expedition to Antarctica and in front of a new fresco produced by the graffiti artists 2Shy and Noah N. The two cities compete so as not to be simple passing villages.
play the leading roles
In Moûtiers, six large works will be painted in public, which will be added to the 42 frescoes already in place, some signed by world renowned artists such as Kalouf. In Bourg-Saint-Maurice, three major drawings give a new breath to the city center. Like a desire to copy what works in Moûtiers? “Not at all!” Reacts Cécile Mulot, first assistant to the culture of the town. A former director of the very trendy electric circus, she came from Paris in 2020 to settle here. “For the moment, everyone does a little programming alone in their corner with a little competitive spirit specific to this valley … Me, what I want is to stand out as much as possible!”
To play the leading roles of cultural life in Tarentaise, each municipality has assets in its sleeve. “Moûtiers is not a tourist destination, but it has surprises in store,” says Fabrice Pannetkoucke, LR mayor since 2014. After the low -engaging window, we unlock a nice historic center where the street art course begins. If, in 2018, the city offered its walls to dozens of artists at the initiative of the eternal craples collective, it is to no longer be this rail node where 400,000 skiers pass by winter.
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