French artist Ugo Gattoni has created a duo of intricately hand-drawn posters for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which can function independently or combine seamlessly to create a single composition.
It marks the first time that posters for both summer games were designed together as a diptych, according to the Paris 2024 Organising Committee.
Ugo Gattoni has designed the poster for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The posters tell a singular story about the games via a hyperreal depiction of Paris incorporating 47 Olympic and Paralympic sports alongside various architectural landmarks.
"When I was asked to design the iconic posters for Paris 2024, I immediately imagined a city-stadium open to the world, a suspended time in which you can wander through microcosms where Parisian monuments and sporting disciplines joyfully coexist," Gattoni said. One half of the poster is dedicated to the Olympics
His aim was to create a series of micro-stories based around familiar Paris monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, the Grand Palais, the Arc de Triomphe and the Trocadéro, where British studio Gustafson Porter + Bowman is adding an amphitheatre and a green corridor in preparation for the games.
In Gattoni's condensed version of Paris, these landmarks rub shoulders with some of the sporting venues that will be used for the games including the Stade de France, which will host the athletics, Para athletics and rugby sevens.
The other side focuses on t...