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The Olympic Games win a tapestry signed Marjane Satrapi

2024-03-13T13:23:11.423Z

Highlights: The tapestry will be exhibited in Paris during the 2024 Olympic Games. The work was created over three years by a group of weavers from the city. The tapestries will be used for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games. They will also be used as part of the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The works will be displayed at the Olympic Museum in Rio until the end of the year when they will be moved to a new location.


The author of Persepolis imagined the design of this work woven into the Mobilier national. It will be exhibited in Paris during the competition.


On the left panel of the tapestry, a buttercup yellow silhouette throws a javelin.

On the right panel, two other characters perform breakdancing and skateboarding figures, new disciplines of the Paris Olympics.

On the large central panel, a man and a woman, sprinters, carry a flame, under what we guess is the Eiffel Tower.

Primary colors, stylized lines, the tapestry for the Paris 2024 Games, imagined by the artist Marjane Satrapi, was unveiled on March 12 from the Gobelins factory in Paris.

After three long years of work, the weavers carried out the loom fall, a high point when the weave that connected the loom to the tapestry is cut.

The operation, which allows a previously hidden work to be discovered, is always spectacular.

This time, and given the international stakes, it was organized in front of a swarm of cameras, patrons and a CE1 class from the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

Chaos assured in the spaces…

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Source: lefigaro

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