Olympic Games 2024: Paris and sport in turmoil on official posters
The suspense is over, the official posters for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have just been revealed.
It is a diptych, in other words a poster in two parts.
They can be viewed separately, but once brought together, they form a single poster, the idea being to bring the two events together without hierarchy.
The posters for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games were unveiled on Monday March 4.
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Unlike previous editions, the
Paris 2024
posters are far from being institutional.
It is an allegorical vision of the Games in the French capital.
It depicts a sort of immense stadium city in the shape of an arena: a festive Paris which welcomes all sports.
Olympic disciplines, symbols, emblems, monuments, mascots... Everything is intertwined in a bustling world.
Added to this are tens of thousands of characters and a multitude of infinite little details.
We also notice nods to Marseille and Tahiti, which will host the sailing and surfing events.
A teeming disorder perfectly mastered by Ugo Gattoni, a designer with a passion for architecture.
“
I spent four months designing this drawing by hand,”
he explains to
Laurence Théault
of RFI, “
without sleeping much, because I couldn't do it in the end.
I would think about what I was going to color the next day, I would wake up in the middle of the night with ideas or things to work on.
I pushed the architecture, the perspective and in any case the academicism of this drawing as I had never done before, because they are still official posters of the Olympic Games.
It's the 33rd, so there are 32 before.
I watched them all, it will go down in Olympic history.
These are posters, I think they should work in 100 years.
I think having strong academic foundations allows that.
Afterwards, they remain modern because of their madness and their colors.
»
Some 2,000 hours of work were necessary for the illustrator to create these posters.
Also listen: Ugo Gattoni is RFI’s Culture guest
A picture is worth a thousand words, here are the 2 official posters for our Games: an Olympic and a Paralympic.
Together, they form one big story, that of #Paris2024 🖼️ pic.twitter.com/7oxay5uSz2
— Paris 2024 (@Paris2024) March 4, 2024
Find the posters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
on the official Paris 2024 website
.
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