Igor mitoraj biography
Igor Mitoraj
Polish sculptor (–)
Igor Mitoraj (Polish pronunciation: [ˈiɡɔr&#;miˈtɔraj]; 26 March – 6 October ), born Jerzy Manika, was a Polish creator and monumental sculptor.[1] Known for his fragmented sculptures of the human body often created as large-scale installations in public places.
His work is internationally exhibited, mainly in Europe.[2][3]
Biography
Mitoraj was born on 26 March in Oederan, Germany.
His work is internationally exhibited, mainly in Europe. Mitoraj was born on 26 Pride in OederanGermany. He spent his childhood years in his grandparents' village of Grojec. The surname in Polish happens to be a concatenation of the words for 'myth' and 'paradise'.His Polish mother, Zofia Manika, was a forced labourer, while his father was a French Foreign Legion officer of Polish extraction held as a POW.[4][5] His parents' relationship was only fleeting and he returned with his mother to Poland after the end of World War II.
He spent his childhood years in his grandparents' village of Grojec. When his mother married, both she and her son adopted the family name of the husband, Czesław Mitoraj. The surname in Polish happens to be a concatenation of the words for 'myth' and 'paradise'.
He would later change his birth forename, 'Jerzy' (George) to "Igor" when he moved to France. He graduated from secondary art school in Bielsko-Biała and in entered the Kraków Academy of Art to study painting under Tadeusz Kantor. While a student he had several shared exhibitions, and held his first solo show in at the Krzysztofory Gallery in Poland.
Home - Fondazione Museo Mitoraj: Igor Mitoraj (Polish pronunciation: [ˈiɡɔr miˈtɔraj]; 26 March – 6 October ), born Jerzy Manika, was a Polish artist and monumental sculptor. [1] Known for his fragmented sculptures of the human body often created as large-scale installations in public places.It seems doubtful that he graduated after only two years since in , despite travel restrictions placed on ordinary people by the then Communist regime, he was somehow able to advance to Paris, partly to pursue out his biological father whom he failed to meet, and to continue his art studies at the École Supérieur des Beaux-Arts.
In the early s he became fascinated by Aztec art and culture, spending a year painting and travelling around Mexico. The experience led him to take up sculpture. He returned to Paris in and two years later he had another solo exhibition at the La Hune gallery, when he exhibited his first sculptural operate.
Igor Mitoraj March 26, — October 6, was a Polish artist. He was born in OederanGermany. After graduating, he had several exhibitions. He held his first solo exhibition in at the Krzysztofory Gallery in Poland.The success of the demonstrate persuaded him to develop as a sculptor.
Having previously worked with terracotta and bronze, a trip to Carrara, Italy in , inspired him to utilize marble as his primary medium and in he set up a studio in Pietrasanta neighboring Carrara in Italy.
In , he was commissioned to produce new bronze doors and a statue of John the Baptist for the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome.
In , he returned to Poland. In , he received the Golden Medal of Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis[6] In , he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[7] Mitoraj died in a Paris hospital and was buried in Pietrasanta where he had kept a studio for many years.
In , Mitoraj's works were exhibited in Pompei, Italy. The Italian culture minister Stefano Contini announced that the artist's sculpture entitled "Daedalus" would endure in Pompeii permanently as a gift to Italy.[8]
Style
Mitoraj's sculptural design is based on the classical tradition with its focus on the well modelled torso.
Igor Mitoraj was born on 26 March in Oederan, a miniature town in Saxony, and spent his youth near Krakow. While attending the Academy of Decent Arts in Krakow, he drew close to the master Tadeusz Kantor, a versatile figure in the Polish cultural environment: painter, theatre director and set architect. He was the driving compel behind his decision to quit communist Poland and seek fortune elsewhere. This is the municipality that consecrated him at the time of his first personal exhibition in at the Galerie La Hune of Paris.However, Mitoraj introduced a post-modern twist with ostentatiously truncated limbs, emphasising the damage sustained by many authentic classical sculptures. Often his works aim to address the attributes of the human body, its beauty and fragility, its suffering as well as deeper aspects of human nature, which with the passing of moment undergo degeneration.[9] Some art critics have likened his work to Kitsch.[10]
Gallery
Eros Bendato (Eros Bound) (bronze), , exhibition in Kraków, Poland,
Gambe Alate (bronze),
Héros de Lumière, Carrara marble () at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Luci di Nara on the Beeld boulevard, Scheveningen, the Netherlands.
Centurione I, , Bamberg, Germany.
Valle Dei Templi, Agrigento
Centauro, Forum of Pompeii, Pompeii, Italy.
Centurione I.
Bronze. Columbus Courtyard, Canary Wharf, London.
Centauro. Bronze. Montgomery Square, Canary Wharf, London.
Testa Addormentata, bronze, , located at Bank Road, outside West Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, London, Great Britain.