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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