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- The Fondazione Milano Cortina has revealed 5 posters for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic and Paralympic Video games.
- The group tapped 10 Italian artists for the upcoming video games, spotlighting themes of competitors, collaboration, resilience and pleasure via gouache, acrylic, oil, digital and mixed-media compositions.
As Milano Cortina 2026 attracts close to, a brand new league of Italian artists current their tackle the long-standing poster custom. Triennale Milano and Fondazione Milano Cortina have unveiled the official artwork posters for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Video games subsequent January. Helmed by Damiano Gullì and the worldwide Olympic and Paralympic committees, the initiative invited 10 artists beneath 40 to reimagine the occasions via the lens of Italian modern artwork, bringing forth a variety of gouache, acrylic, digital and mixed-media compositions.
This 12 months’s cohort of Olympic poster artists options an all-women roster with contributions from Beatrice Alici, Martina Cassatella, Giorgia Garzilli, Maddalena Tesser and Flaminia Veronesi. From Garzilli’s gelato-stacked Olympic rings to Alici’s milk-white ski scene and Cassatella’s fiery hand-as-torch, every bit provides a vibrant tackle competitors and collaboration, via themes of fantasy, pleasure and bliss.
The Paralympic collection shifts focus to power, resilience and solidarity. Works by Roberto De Pinto, Andrea Fontanari, Aronne Pleuteri, Clara Woods and Giulia Mangoni have a good time human connection, adaptive energy and emotional triumph envisioned via plumes of shade, poetic textual parts and a glance again on the tender second shared between Braima Suncar Dabo and Jonathan Busby on the 2019 Doha World Championships.
Relationship again to 1972, the Olympic artwork posters function symbolic reflections of the Video games’ triumphant spirit, beforehand spotlighting cultural icons like Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Hirohiko Araki of Jojo’s Weird Journey for the Tokyo Video games in 2020. Now, a brand new era of artists carries the torch ahead.
All ten posters, alongside the official torches of Milano Cortina 2026 are actually on view at Piano Parco Galleries via March 15, 2026. Head extra info on the designs, head to the Video games’ web site.
