Do you know “the Christ of Trocadéro”?
You read correctly.
Not the “Christ of Corcovado”, the cross-shaped arm that dominates the bay of Rio de Janeiro, but the Christ of Trocadéro, a curious character, more difficult to detect.
However, it appears, and prominently, on the poster for the future Parisian Olympics designed by the artist Ugo Gattoni.
Publicly presented on March 4, the work ignited a national controversy for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: the cross of the dôme des Invalides replaced by an arrow on the official poster.
On Gattoni's poster, what I call "the Christ of Trocadéro" is in the foreground, in the visual axis of the dome without a cross.
A man in a swimsuit, arms crossed, with a very well-known characteristic profile, dominates this ideal city, rather successful in its fantastical genre.
Who is this modern savior, at the same time protective, overlooking, motionless, a dove resting on his arm?
He has the appearance of a sports diver, a magnificent…
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