Paris 2024 Olympic Games: the official posters revealed, between art and crazy comic strips

L'affiche officielle des Jeux Olympiques (à gauche) et celle des Paralympiques (à droite), forment une vue fantasmagorique de la capitale. Paris-2024

Les deux affiches des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques, présentées ce lundi 4 mars, forment un Paris fantasmagorique quand on les met côte à côte. Un tour de magie réalisé par l'illustrateur parisien Ugo Gattoni.

Another stunning move from the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. After torches with an attractive design, medals in the form of works of art including a piece of the Eiffel Tower, they unveiled this Monday, March 4 more than surprising official posters 144 days before the opening ceremony.

In the setting of the Musée d'Orsay, where they will be exhibited, the posters were presented before being put up this week "all over Paris". Joachim Roncin, the design director at Paris 2024, explained the story of their creation, entrusted to the Parisian illustrator Ugo Gattoni. Already the author of a 'Bicycle' project for the 2012 London Olympics, or the design of Hermès scarves, Ugo Gattoni draws his inspiration from surrealist microcosms and mythology. Like an engraving, his very meticulous drawings of worlds and landscapes tell stories while leaving room for the viewer's interpretation.

Giant Olympic village full of details

To create the posters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Parisian illustrator was instructed to see further than the simple top of the Eiffel Tower and to integrate the equipment of Seine-Saint-Denis, first and foremost the Stade de France, but also the beaches of Tahiti, where the surfing events will take place.

Official poster of the 2024 Olympic Games Paris-2024

He drew a Paris « utopian » and almost « spooky » transformed into a stadium and a giant Olympic village in a somewhat art deco style. We notably discover an Eiffel Tower which has one foot in the park of Versailles and another in the Marina of Marseille, which will host the Olympic flame and the sailing events.

2000 working hours

Two thousand hours of work (entirely by hand) were necessary to create this work designed to "mark over time and which should function in 100 years”, according to Joachim Roncin. & ;quot;For four months, I locked myself in my workshop, and it was like that day and night, said Ugo Gattoni, who studied swimming and dreamed of being a professional swimmer.

Official poster of the 2024 Paralympic Games Paris-2024

Always looking for originality, the organizers are revealing two posters, that of the Olympic Games and that of the Paralympics, which complement each other to form this imaginary Paris  when we put them side by side. A first in the history of the Games and once again, a marked desire to put the Olympic and Paralympic Games on the same level.

Eight hidden mascots, “Where’s Waldo” style ?"

The Olympic arena, in a very Roman style, is formed by the Arc de Triomphe, the Trocadéro, the Invalides and the Pont Neuf, and bordered by the Seine transformed into an Olympic swimming pool.  With each new glance, the viewer will discover new details borrowed from the current world of the Olympics but also from those of  1924.

Eight mascots from the 2024 Olympic Games are scattered among this crowd of characters in a comic strip style "Where's Waldo ?"

Available for sale from March 5

The 47 Olympic and Paralympic disciplines are all present in this artistic abundance in a festive, cheerful and colorful spirit, in resonance with "the’spirit of the Paris 2024 Games, designed themselves as a great popular festival, according to the organizers.

These magnificent posters will be available for sale in 30x40cm and 50x70cm formats from March 5 from 20 € (the Olympic Poster and the Paralympic Poster will be sold separately).