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MARS ⎜ Igor Mitoraj
It has been 10 years since the death of the great and internationally acclaimed French-Polish sculptor Igor Mitoraj. With his larger-than-life sculptures, he has long since secured himself a permanent place in the contemporary art canon. For he succeeded like no other in elevating the “broken” and the “fragmentary”, as we encounter it in ancient works during archaeological excavations, to a central artistic style and transforming it into a timeless modernity. It is impossible to escape the magic of his still torsos, portrait fragments and half-figures, with which the sculptor celebrates the beauty of the human body.
“I long for something very beautiful, very simple, a sort of lost paradise. I need a certain beauty, this makes me live.” (Igor Mitoraj)
The great artist is being celebrated this year with an open-air exhibition of over 30 works in the archaeological park of Neapolis in Syracuse, Sicily. In addition, the sculpture “Teseo Screpolato” (the broken Theseus) was erected on the south-eastern side of Mount Etna, at 1700 meters above sea level, so that its field of vision extends from
the summit of the volcano to the Ionian Sea. The gigantic sculpture will remain in place until October next year; the same applies to the exhibition in Syracuse.
