After the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Gamesseveral athletes have already received their awards and recognitions in different sports by getting on the podium to receive their respective medalsof gold, silver or bronze. But something that caught the curiosity of the spectators was the additional gift that is given to athletes: a mysterious elongated gold-colored box.
Ana Paula Vazquezthe Mexican archer, bronze medalistposted a video on the social network TikTok where he showed the contents of the box to clear up any doubts that arose among the spectators. “This video is to know what comes in the little box that they gave us with the medals. We don’t know, we think it’s a map“, said the medalist.
The athlete revealed that within the box approximately 40 centimetersis located Official poster of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with details of the city and the detail of the complexes and Turistic zones that can be visited and observed at this event: the stages of different disciplines, the balloon that carries the Olympic flame, the Arc de Triomphe, among others.
The poster was designed by the artist and Parisian illustrator, Ugo Gattoni and presented in March at the beginning of the year in the Orsay Museum. He worked on the posters for almost half a year, from September 19, 2023 to January 19, 2024, with a total of 2,000 hours dedicated to create the two posters that became the symbol of these games.
“We have tried to be different and imagine posters that look like us, posters that go beyond a simple logo,” he said. Paris 2024 Olympic President, Tony Estanguetwho hired this designer for his specialty and uniqueness in creating with a wide variety of color palettes.
Gattoni He expressed his joy at having been the creator of these posters and noted that “It’s a great opportunity to show my work to the world, it’s great“It is very important to me that a work of art has a life in its time, so it is fantastic that this drawing can be displayed in a museum alongside paintings that are hundreds of years old.”
Source: Ambito
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