RIO De Janeiro, Brazil (Reuters) — Rio 2016 launched on Tuesday (July 12) the 13 official posters aimed at representing the diversity of Latin America’s largest nation, where most Olympic Games have only one.
The posters were unveiled at a scenic exhibition at the new Museum of Tomorrow jutting out over the Guanabara Bay as a centrepiece of the recently renovated port area and Maua Square.
The collection was created by 12 Brazilian artists and a Colombian, who Rio 2016’s cultural curator Carla Camurati said were recommended by national museums.
“It’s a collection. So, what we want is exactly to have the expression of all the artists that we have in the country now. And so we asked our important museums to indicate some names and we select them. And what we have here is a collection; one for each taste, one for each person, one for each part of the country,” said Camurati.
One of these artists is Gringo Cardia who explained the inspiration behind his piece, ‘Acquaplay’.
“What we tried to do was bring together elements of nature, the sea, which are very important here, and we created a mixture of men, animals, nature, blue, the colour of our city,” said Cardia.
Other images featured sharp graphic designs of the Olympic rings and an athlete running along Copacabana beach carrying the Olympic flame doubled as a dove of peace.
The exhibit will remain until July 22, before being displayed at the Deodoro complex of several sporting venues in Rio’s northern zone.