SENEGAL-ART

Contemporary Senegalese artist, Omar Ba, paints onto a black canvas at his workshop in Sangalkam on May 09, 2022. - Omar Ba is the rising star of contemporary African art and one of the artists most prized by collectors. He is one of the sensations of the 14th edition of the Dakar Biennale which opened on May 19, 2022 and where he is exhibiting for the first time, to "give back" to his country where he was born into a family of seven brothers and sisters. . It was at the Beaux-Arts in Dakar, passionate about drawing, that he began his studies, after having given up training as a mechanic. The artist - who lives between Senegal where his family resides, Brussels and Geneva where he landed in 2003 for his art studies and received the Swiss Art Awards in 2011 - has been exhibited in a number of major galleries and museums throughout the world, like at the Pompidou Center in Paris. His paintings currently sell for between 80,000 and 120,000 euros. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)