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24 sculptures by Igor Mitoraj
were displayed in Granada in February and March 2006.The open air exhibition
changed the city's unique urban landscape. Igor Mitoraj was
born in Oederan in 1944 to Polish parents. He commenced his artistic
studies at the Cracow School of Art and then became a student of Tadeusz
Kantor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He exhibited his work for the first
time in 1967 at the Krystofory Gallery in Cracow, and then, on the
advice of Kantor, left Poland to pursue his own expressive goals in
greater freedom. Mitoraj left for Paris and briefly studied at the Ecole
Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he was greatly accepted into the
artistic milieu during the tumultuous student unrest of 1968. Widely
travelled, Mitoraj absorbed the influences of sculptural technique from
Greece, New York, Central America, and Italy.
He has been commissioned for many monuments including the marble Omaggio
a De Sabata for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Sculpture Fountain
for the Coca-Cola Foundation in the USA, and his work Tindaro may be
seen in Paris at La Defense. Mitoraj's sculptures are now to be found in
the most important public and private collections of contemporary art.
In 1995 the monumental sculpture Thsuki-No-Hikari was acquired by the
British Museum. |
