Beauty and gesture: six sculptures celebrating Olympism in front of the National Assembly

From April 2 and for the duration of the 2024 Paris Olympics, six sculptures, imagined by the artist Laurent Perbos, representing Olympianism will be on the steps of the Palais Bourbon. Outdoor installations, discover for free!

For several months,national assembly opens to the general public free of charge and by reservation at the initiative of President Yaël Braun-Pivet. For Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic GamesPalais Bourbon is participatingCultural Olympiad and greets his steps, six statues representing Olympism to celebrate sport and art. They will be visible from April 2 to September 22, 2024for the entire duration of the competition, outdoors.

He is a French visual artist Laurent Perbos who imagined this art installation where each sculpture embodies a Olympic discipline : basketball, boxing, javelin, para-archery, surfing and tennis. Inspired Venus of MiloThese female figures in acrylic resin each hold an object that represents their sport, an allegory that defies the collective imagination that associates sport with masculinity and reflects the evolution of games.

These colorful works wish to be exhibited until the European Heritage Days includingeach connected sa the color of the rainbow, symbolizing equal rights and the fight against discrimination. Next, the Olympic flame crosses these sporty Venuses on July 14. Take the opportunity to discover the behind-the-scenes of this body of power and democracy for free!

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