The iconic Lennon Wall used to be spontaneously created at the Mala Strana in Prague within the Nineteen Eighties. An emblem of freedom and western values within the then communist Czechoslovakia, John Lennon used to be depicted at the wall after his assassination, adopted via other folks’s messages of affection and peace.
It’s a mainstay of the town’s vacationer path and a reminder of various instances within the nation. A brand new initiative repainted the Lennon wall in simply at some point, via artists from EU nations, Norway and Ukraine.
The theme of the venture is freedom and effort, topics that have turn into the entire extra urgent, since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Lennon wall is in a continuing state of flux, however the message stays the similar – ‘make love, no longer struggle’.
And for Ukrainian Artist, Viktoria Savchuk, this which means is particularly vital.
“My work is connected with the war in Ukraine and I am painting its end. Freedom will be in this painting of the sky, because in Ukraine we say that the sky is freedom, and the sunflower expresses energy.”
The entire of the wall will now be photographed, transferred to an excessively massive inflatable half-star and displayed in European towns. First in Brussels after which Paris or Strasbourg.
