Official posters for the Paris 2024 Games presented at the Musée d'Orsay

The official posters for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games were presented at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris . Two posters that form a single illustration: in keeping with the spirit of equality, which will be the hallmark of the upcoming Olympic Games, the Paris 2024 organizing committee in fact did not want to make any distinction between the Olympics and the Paralympics when designing the official posters for the event, which are on display side by side at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris where they will remain until March 10.

The works were created by Ugo Gattoni (Vitry-sur-Seine, 1988), a Paris-based illustrator who worked on the project from Sept. 19, 2023 to Jan. 19, 2024, taking a total of 2,000 hours to create the two posters that will become one of the symbols of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. “Its extremely colorful world captures all the richness and diversity of our project,” explained Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024. “It features the main symbols of Paris2024, as well as numerous references to the Olympic and Paralympic Games and to Paris and France.”

The posters are designed as a rich and lively blend of details and small scenes, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in a world of intriguing microcosms. The viewer is encouraged to explore this ever-changing visual universe, discovering new elements at every glance, thanks to an ingenious play of perspective. From a distance, an overall image emerges that communicates a clear message, but up close, details are revealed that open the way for multiple interpretations. The two posters intend to transport the audience to a utopian and fantastic vision of Paris, depicted as an endless, circular city-stadium. This imaginary Paris is an open and cosmopolitan place, where familiar places and monuments are reworked in a new key. Sports permeate every corner of the city, and the influence ofArt Deco helps create a link between past and present, reflecting the Paris Olympics of 1900 and 1924, along with the 2024 Olympics. The overall tone of the illustration is joyful, lively and festive, in keeping with the spirit of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, conceived as a great popular celebration, full of joy and merriment.

For the first time in the history of the Olympics, the Olympic and Paralympic posters were designed jointly: both can exist independently, but together they form a singular composition that tells the broad story of Paris 2024. This fusion emphasizes and celebrates the inclusive approach of Paris 2024, already evident in the previous symbols of the Games: a single logo, a single mascot, a unified slogan, a single Organizing Committee, and so on.

Paris 2024 decided to go beyond previous editions by presenting on a single fresco that combines numerous elements, symbols, and values that make up the identity of Paris 2024. L’illustration, in fact, reproduces Olympic and Paralympic symbols (the Olympic Rings, the three Agitos, Stoke Mandeville, the Olympic motto), characteristic elements of the Paris 2024 edition (the mascots, the arrival of the Olympic Flame in Marseille aboard the Belem, the Mass Event Running, the Ceremony boats on the Seine, the Olympic Equality, the iconic competition venues), great symbols of Paris and France (the Eiffel Tower, the Marianne, the Patrouille de France, the Paris Metro, the Seine, the Arc de Triomphe), many sports (represented, in particular the four new sports added by Paris 2024 to its program: breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing).

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Official posters for the Paris 2024 Games presented at the Musée d'Orsay

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