Art exhibition tells stories of 1924 Paris Olympics
The exhibition will highlight how international artists working across different disciplines were engaged with themes of the sporting body.
An art exhibition will reflect on the last Olympics to be held in Paris a century ago, as the Games return to the French capital this summer.
Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body will use art, film and photography to tell stories about the momentous sporting event, at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
Curators say the exhibition will allow visitors to “explore how the modernist culture” of Paris “shaped the future of sport and the Olympic Games we know and love today”.
The exhibition will highlight how international artists working across different disciplines – including prominent modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera and Umberto Boccioni – were engaged with themes of the sporting body.
It will present these works of art in dialogue with classical sculpture, posters, fashion, film, photography, sporting objects, advertising and more, to demonstrate how sport captured the imagination of visual culture across different forms.
Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body will open to the public on Friday July 19 and run until November 3.
