The Open Sky Museum
Destiny Joseph@josephdestiny597391
1 month ago
Hello Neigbours,
Hello Dakar,
Heard your streets are booming with streets arts, decorated with colors on your wall that brighten your ancient city... Well permit to journey through the lengths of your city in today's post of the Discover Africa and Visit Africa writing experience.
Speaking about wall art, the city of Dakar, Senegal seems to typify this beauty perfectly as artists no longer need Canvas to express their creativity, rather, they express their visions on sides of homes.
In Médina, a small neighborhood near downtown Dakar, artists from all over the world are welcome to practice their craft in what the founder of the project calls the "open sky museum."
The open sky museum is a project running on the creativity of artist from Senegal, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Morocco, Congo, France and Italy and is centred around painting dozens of walls across the poor neighborhood.
Dozens of wall paintings pr street art as some may call it, now dot the neighborhood, bringing colour to usually drab cement walls, and adding to the flourishing international art scene in Dakar.
This remarkable concept has brought art lovers and tourists into a neighborhood where they otherwise might not go, to mingle with people they otherwise might not meet - amazing right?
Interestingly, street art seems to come naturally to Senegal. You could find small shops adorned with images of what they sell.
Fashion designers and tailora usually have paintings of scissors to announce their brand; heads with fancy hairstyles advertise barbers; images of cows and bowls of milk herald the ubiquitous sweet milk shops; a drawing of a sheep broadcasts the presence of a vendor serving grilled meat.
In Médina, it should amaze you to see the quality of graffiti or wall art crafted on poor cement buildings. These designs on an international scale when sold could rake in great profit.
It is indeed amazing to have an open sky museum in Dakar, where creativity lives and thrives in ordinary places under the open sky not just in secluded place where the eyes of a few gaze on it.
If you're an art lover, your feet and eyes will enjoy walking the length and breadth of Médina, Dakar, as you'll fall in love with the designs, concept, colora and even the African people. Take out time to #DiscoverAfrica and someday #VisitAfrica particularly Médina, Dakar, Senegal.
📍Dakar, Senegal
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