From the City of Angels to the City of Light: your new must-see location in Paris! 🎉 The International Olympic Committee and the City of Paris officially inaugurated the Olympic Sculpture on 23 June, Olympic Day. Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar unveiled her beautiful work, "Salon" (2024), now permanently installed in the public garden of the Champs-Elysées, honouring the legacy of Paris 2024. "'Salon’ is an invitation for dialogue; for exchange; for coming together; for sharing. In this way, your sculptures are a wonderful illustration of what happens at the Olympic Games," said IOC President Thomas Bach to the artist. The bronze sculpture consists of a figure of a woman seated on volcanic rock, holding olive boughs in one hand and a polished gold flame in the other. She is seated in a circle of six chairs, each representing a different region in the world, and points to variety of industries, occupations and interests. The work serves as an invitation to the public to take a seat, meet others and engage in dialogue in a spirit of shared humanity, illustrating the Olympic ideals of a peaceful and inclusive society. 🤝 The sculpture was produced over five months in France under Saar’s supervision, both to promote eco-sustainability and to support French craftsmanship and suppliers. The Olympic sculpture is part of the Olympic Art Visions programme, managed by the Olympic Museum. The programme, unique within the Olympic Movement, strengthens the ties between host cities through an international artistic community that symbolically "passes the torch" from one edition of the Games to the next. Saar succeeds Xavier Veilhan, who created 'The Audience' (2021) for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, a work that was installed permanently in the heart of the Japanese capital. Read more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gYiJMDNW. International Olympic Committee – IOC, Ville de Paris, Paris 2024 - Comité d'organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024, Anne Hidalgo, Carine Rolland, Jeanne D'Hauteserre, L.A. LOUVER
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