For once, the official poster for the Roland-Garros tournament allows itself an incursion outside the Porte d’Auteuil stadium and settles into Paris itself, on the Seine.
The official poster for the 2024 edition, which will be contested from May 27 to June 9, was revealed this Wednesday. This is the 45th of its kind, the initiative consisting of entrusting the visual of the tournament to an artist dating back to 1980.
The 2024 poster by Paul Rousteau, a 38-year-old artist-photographer, is installed on the Seine, with a view of a bridge and the Eiffel Tower. It depicts a sunrise or sunset reflected in the water, where the tennis ball takes the place of the sun.
A tennis court appears transparently in the foreground. “I wanted to represent the capital but also the very particular color of the court,” explains the designer. I really wanted tennis to take over Paris. I also wanted to refer to the Olympic Games, and the opening ceremony of Paris 2024, which will take place on the Seine. »
For once, the artist did not base his creation on a photograph, relying on artificial intelligence. “I had lots of ideas in mind, but which were most often impossible to realize through photography, like putting a tennis court on the Seine,” explains Rousteau.
Inspired throughout his career by impressionism and pointillism, the artist familiarized himself over a long period with this new tool, then he repainted point by point the image provided by the “AI”, to using a graphics palette.
In a press release, the FFT underlines that “Rousteau explores the limits of photography and our perceptions. His art, made of optical illusions, navigates between digital art and pictorial materials. On the borders of abstraction and sacred art, his images in joyful colors reveal the artist’s deep quest “to sublimate the visible and show the invisible”. From portrait to landscape, his hallucinatory and contemplative visuals are requested by the biggest museums, magazines, and major brands. His latest exhibition “Paul, the beach and the painters” is visible until March 2024 at the Villa Noailles in Hyères.