Unveiled late Monday afternoon, the official poster for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games was the subject of criticism on social networks, fueled by elected officials targeting the disappearance of the cross overlooking the dome of Les Invalides and leaving room for an arrow.
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Tuesday afternoon, the Organizing Committee wanted to provide certain details concerning the work signed by the designer Ugo Gattoni.
“The official posters are a joyful, light-hearted artistic interpretation of a reinvented stadium city.
Many elements could be reinterpreted by the artist.
It is a representation which is neither exhaustive nor faithful to reality - the Tahiti wave is off the Marseille Marina, the Eiffel Tower is pink, the metro passes under the Arc de Triomphe - without that must not be the subject of politically motivated interpretations
,” the organizers said.
Ugo Gattoni also wanted to defend his vision of things and his work:
“Through my design of official posters I do not seek to represent objects or buildings in a conforming manner.
I evoke them, as they appear to me and without ulterior motives.
I'm not looking for them to be faithful to the original but rather for us to be able to imagine at a glance what it's about, while projecting it into a surreal and festive universe.