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24 Oeuvres - Art meets sport
On the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024, the City of Paris has deployed 24 works of art in 24 Parisian sports facilities. This artistic program, developed as part of the Cultural Olympiad, brings art and sport together, is a legacy of the Games and highlights the vitality of Parisian creativity.
As part of the Paris 2024Cultural Olympiad, the City of Paris, the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris 2024 aim to encourage greater dialogue between the worlds of art and sport.
To create a lasting link between sport and art, Pierre Rabadan, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of sport, the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Seine, and Carine Rolland, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of culture, decided to launch a project as part of the Cultural Olympiad to install works of art in Parisian sports facilities.
The aim is to leave a lasting legacy of 24 works/installations in 24 venues across Paris.
Of these 24 works, 5 were overseen by the Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d'Art, two projects from City-supported schools of applied arts, and three works by former residents of the Ateliers de Paris.
École Boulle and École Estienne x Cour des lions swimming pool
Effervescence - 2024
The project Effervescence is a graphic creation born of an exchange between students from the typographic, event and space design programs of the City of Paris' schools of applied arts, École Boulle and École Estienne.
The aim of this creation is to depict the undulating movement of the body, swimming and water on the building's regular bays.
This composition adds dynamism to the façade, rethinking the relationship between the inside and outside of the pool while allowing light to pass through.
Up close, the fresco appears abstract, evoking the movement of water, as the silhouettes extend over several meters without being legible on the scale of a single bay. The composition takes on its full dimension when viewed from a distance. It was designed in orange, as a reminder of the color of the exterior façade, resonating with its complementary blue interior.
By: Sibylle Esposito, Judith Henry, Céane Jelsch and Laurine Navet.
9, rue Alphonse Baudin, 75011
Duperré school x Croix-Nivert gymnasium
Sports parade - 2024
Photographs
Sport exalts bodies in terms of endurance and power, performance and competitiveness, but also self-care and self-centeredness. The sporting body is fashionable: between constraint and liberation, success and failure, tension and conquest, it constitutes a contemporary ideal of expression.
Fencing sprinter © Sévia, Pierre, Jules
© Frédéric Mauviel/Ville de Paris
The project Parade sportive is a photographic series by students in the Advanced Diploma in Applied Arts in Fashion, major Image Media Publishing, at Duperré. The series unfolds as a stylized group of characters, all of whom are at the crossroads of several sports, which they hybridize in a burlesque universe of assertive fantasy.
Faced with the injunctions that structure the sporting body, the students wanted to develop an offbeat, humorous and open approach.
This carnival-like sports parade punctuates the space of the Croix-Nivert gymnasium: eccentric gods and goddesses in large format, with a playful, benevolent presence.
By: Angèle Basile, Pierre Bounhoure, Sarah Bouyssou, Mailine Chan, Sevia Chenut Ardouin, Maxime David, Chloé Fernandes, Loïse Hulin, Mona Lemaire, Raphael Michel, Jules Poutier, Côme Scialom, Robin Tubeuf with the participation of DnMADE espace scenography and events students.
107 rue de la Croix-Nivert, 75015 Paris
ABOUT A WORKER x Centre sportif Jules Ladoumègue
Sport together! - 2024
The ABOUT A WORKER studio was born in 2017 with the desire to transform social ties through the arts and the transmission of textile know-how. The studio perceives creation as a universal language and a vector of social bonding. It offers different communities the artistic tools to become expressive designers. Through inclusive workshops based on knowledge sharing and environmental responsibility, ABOUT A WORKER initiates a dialogue around socio-professional realities.
As part of the Cultural Olympiad, ABOUT A WORKER created collective textile frescoes to decorate the Jules Ladoumègue sports center. The aim of the project was to enable the center's sportsmen and women to showcase their physical activity in the form of a shared work of art. During workshops, some 100 participants illustrated their vision of play and movement through the production of geometric collages. These motifs were then reinterpreted by the studio to create the textile frescoes in their Paris workshop from dormant fabric stocks.
39 Route des Petits Ponts, 75019
Sénéquier x Charles Moureu Sports Center
LANNO - 2024
Sénéquier designclub is a multi-disciplinary design agency whose approach lies in its ability to give meaning to projects by anchoring them in their local context and times.
He presents "LANNO", a bench that embodies the philosophy of the Olympic Games, symbolizing the union of cultures through its five iridescent steel tubes.
Reinterpreting the Olympic rings as a single, distinct circle of intertwining colors, this installation embodies the idea that harmony is born of diversity, and that inclusion is essential to our common future.
17 avenue Edison, 75013
Mathilde Gullaud & Jérôme Foubert x Centre sportif Jules Noël
LINKING SPORTS - 2024
The Olympic Games are a sporting objective, a celebration of art and a shared motivation. With this in mind, designer and scenographer Mathilde Gullaud and graphic artist Jérôme Foubert teamed up to create a symbolic work of art for the Jules Noël sports center in Paris's 14th arrondissement. Their project takes the form of the phrase "LIER LES SPORTS", cut from aluminum and placed on the façade for all to see. A direct reference to these notions of link, inclusion and communion, its design is based on the Olympic rings as a motif, a manifest heritage of the Games and a representation of the five continents united by Olympism.
For this occasion, a "revival" of a Jean Larcher typeface from the 70s was created. The rings were redesigned and then silk-screened to create a three-dimensional graphic effect, playing with matte and gloss. In this way, the interlacing reinforces the idea of solidarity and togetherness characteristic of sportsmen and women.
3 avenue Maurice d'Ocagne, 75014
