(ISBN-10:
3925782729 / ISBN-13:
978-3925782725)
An 80-page
hardcover catalog published in conjunction with his exhibition (6 June – 2 September 2012) at Die Galerie,
Frankfurt am Main, and the public display of his work on the grounds in front
of the Poelzig Bau (formerly known as the IG Farben Building),
otherwise known as Campus Westend of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. German
texts by Cécile Schortmann
and Elke Mohr, English-language translation by moi.
The Polish sculptor Igor Mitoraj (26 March
1944 – 6 October 2014) was born in Oederan, Germany, to a Polish mother and a
French father. He studied at the Cracow Kunsthochschule (Art School) and at the
Cracow Kunstakademie (Art Academy) and, later, the National School of Fine Arts
in Paris. As of 1974, his artistic focus turned to sculpture.
As The Guardian
explains in their obituary of the artist: "Igor Mitoraj, who has died aged
70, was a monumental sculptor who kept his brand of classicism in fashion by
combining technical ability with a certain postmodern malaise. His fractured
anatomies and immense bandaged heads [...] were both accessible and enigmatic.
Rupture and fragmentation became metaphors for the passing of antiquity, but
could also stand for the nature of time itself, and indeed the whole human
condition. A viewer of these broken forms might recall Shelley's lines: 'My
name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
The sculptures also look fabulous."
Photo by esc
(found online).
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