Senegal
African tapestry
The Galerie Chevalier is broadening its expertise by opening up to African textiles. In particular, Senegalese tapestries, which stand out for their intercultural nature, while renewing a long textile tradition and forming part of contemporary African art.
These tapestries were woven from the late 1960s onwards, and are as much an evidence to the creativity of Senegalese artists as they are to the cultural exchanges that took place under the impetus of Léopold Sédar Senghor and André Malraux.
The creation of the Manufactures Sénégalaises des Arts Décoratifs de Thiès is closely linked to the emergence of the École de Dakar and Senghor’s desire to promote Senegalese art and African art in general on the international stage.