From the elementary school of La Ferrage, located two blocks from the Croisette, I experienced the excitement of 50 years of "International Film Festival" in Cannes. It is a continuous flow of people recognizable by the famous ribbon and badge of accreditation opening all doors. Often in summer clothes, despite the cold and the rain alternating with a ray of sunshine, they walk in small groups between hotels and movie theaters or restaurant terraces.
Behind "Cannes cinema", our Forville market continues to live at the rhythm of the local population and, as every Monday, the second-hand dealers install about fifty stands under the hall built in 1934.
I was humbled by Sayani Gupta, with 71.4K followers on Instagram, who was filming a story for Fox News in the US.
Actress, model and at the same time journalist, she is capable of interviewing live the brokers holding her favorite stands with kindness and skill. 3 people for the sound and image recording plus 2 personal assistants organize in parallel the contacts that come to her, to valorize such or such store or product of the sector. Her influence is well perceived by the e-commerce insiders who urge her to pass by their stand with a business card in hand.
It is hard to believe that it works like that. I was surprised by his professionalism as much on his outfit, very photogenic on the romantic theme, as by his availability and his knowledge on the specialized stand of the French and Belgian comics (bought 50 euros the album).
I understand better its success on social networks given the work upstream to produce beautiful images and regularly renewed content.
Loris is a young secondhand tradesman installed at the entrance of the market who proposes original objects of window or decorative next to luminaries signed by artists come under the sun of the French Riviera.
Far from the stands specializing in leather goods and jewelry, he prefers to hunt for display or decorative objects offered at affordable prices (70 euros for a sulphur signed Louis Leloup, Belgian master glassmaker, born in 1929), a mask carved in malachite for 50 euros or 4 black lacquer plates inlaid with mother of pearl representing flowers and animals for 100 euros.
The art of glassmaking continues in Biot, thanks to the master glassmakers Novarro Jean Claude, Monod Claude, Pierini Robert, Van Lith Jean-Paul. Women are less valued as we can see with the works of Luzoro Michèle who struggles to be valued in public auctions and yet prized by collectors for her remarkable work.
Besides the International Film Festival born in 1939, according to "a century of life in Cannes 1850-1950" published in 2014 by the City of Cannes, after studying the archives, the artistic life of the Côte d'Azur does not weaken throughout the second half of the twentieth century as the exhibition "the great workshop of the South from Cézanne to Matisse" at the Granet Museum in Aix en Provence in 2013 for the painting. To find the trace of these artists in our region is a challenge that bears fruit.
Let's leave the handbags and stamped jewelry to buy artworks and other more personalized objects.
