Allumeur de Rêves, the name of his company, fits him like a glove. Gilbert Coudène is one of the ambassadors of the Rhône that you certainly know without necessarily knowing him: he is the King of light, after having been the one of painted walls.
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Born in Oullins, from a family whose roots can be found in Ardèche, young Gilbert, with a baccalaureate and license in French-sociology in hand, sets off on a world tour. Back in France, he embarked on the Fine Arts. A short-lived adventure. “It was the era of minimal art, which didn’t suit me at all… Suddenly, I did maximum non-art! It is the birth of the City of Creation and of many Lyon painted walls, among the most emblematic. “We first did the Renaissance in Oullins, then the Fresco des Canuts in Croix-Rousse and the Balcons de …