Galerie Jean Gabriel Mitterand

Igor MITORAJ Galerie J.G.M. 8 bis, rue Jacques Callot 75006 Paris Tél. : 33 (0)1 43 26 12 05 Fax : 33 (0)1 46 33 44 83
"Eros II" - 1982 Marbre 94 x 80 x 40 cm	"Eros II" - 1982 Marble 37 x 31 x 16 inches
IGOR MITORAJ. Polonais de naissance, Igor Mitoraj a étudié à l’Académie des Arts de Cracovie. En 1968 il alla vivre à Paris ; il commença à sculpter les années suivantes et tint sa première exposition en 1976. Représenté par la galerie JGM à Paris il a tenu deux expositions personnelles importantes en 1991 et 1993. "Lucci di Nara" Bronze & feuille d’or 26 x 31 x 24 cm "Lucci di Nara" Bronze & gold leaves 10 x 12 x 9 inches	IGOR MITORAJ. ... There is a beauty, a classical completeness, a suave hermetic coherence to Igor Mitoraj’s figural sculptures, but they are also melancoly fragments : pieces of their bodies are missing ... ... Mitoraj’s figures convey a sense of wounded grace... His figures are eternal but marred, ancient gods who have been victimized and isolated by the passage of time. Mitoraj’s sculptures are reconceptualizations of the classical spirit in the situation of modern spiritlessness and disspiretedness, as it were... ... His use of stone and bronze fundamental, durable materials also adds to the sense that they are archetypal and eternal ... ... The modern world is celebrated for its scientific and technological mastery of nature, including human nature, but the legacy in the process of accomplishing this mastery it has lost the sense of the wholeness of the human self that is of christian as well as pagan thinking about the human. Mitoraj’s sculpture reminds us of the great thing that art can still do : show us what we have forfeited in becoming ourselves, in making our particular, actual world. His art is not a gratuitous play on and with tradition, nor an expression of longing for a lost paradise of mythical integrity, but a critique of modern civilization, reminding us of the perverse way it defeated our humanity while increasing our understanding and power. Extracts from Donald KUSPIT. Polish born Igor Mitoraj studied at the Cracow Academy of Art under Tadeuz Kantor. In 1968, he moved to Paris, began sculpting in the following years and held his first one man show in 1976. Represented by JGM Gallery in Paris, he has held two major one man exhibitions in 1991 and 1993.

Igor MITORAJ

Galerie J.G.M.
8 bis, rue Jacques Callot
75006 Paris
Tél. : 33 (0)1 43 26 12 05
Fax : 33 (0)1 46 33 44 83

"Eros II" - 1982
Marbre 94 x 80 x 40 cm

"Eros II" - 1982
Marble 37 x 31 x 16 inches

IGOR MITORAJ.
Polonais de naissance, Igor Mitoraj a étudié à l’Académie des Arts de Cracovie. En 1968 il alla vivre à Paris ; il commença à sculpter les années suivantes et tint sa première exposition en 1976. Représenté par la galerie JGM à Paris il a tenu deux expositions personnelles importantes en 1991 et 1993.

"Lucci di Nara"
Bronze & feuille d’or
26 x 31 x 24 cm

"Lucci di Nara"
Bronze & gold leaves
10 x 12 x 9 inches

IGOR MITORAJ.
... There is a beauty, a classical completeness, a suave hermetic coherence to Igor Mitoraj’s figural sculptures, but they are also melancoly fragments : pieces of their bodies are missing ... ... Mitoraj’s figures convey a sense of wounded grace... His figures are eternal but marred, ancient gods who have been victimized and isolated by the passage of time. Mitoraj’s sculptures are reconceptualizations of the classical spirit in the situation of modern spiritlessness and disspiretedness, as it were... ... His use of stone and bronze fundamental, durable materials also adds to the sense that they are archetypal and eternal ... ... The modern world is celebrated for its scientific and technological mastery of nature, including human nature, but the legacy in the process of accomplishing this mastery it has lost the sense of the wholeness of the human self that is of christian as well as pagan thinking about the human. Mitoraj’s sculpture reminds us of the great thing that art can still do : show us what we have forfeited in becoming ourselves, in making our particular, actual world. His art is not a gratuitous play on and with tradition, nor an expression of longing for a lost paradise of mythical integrity, but a critique of modern civilization, reminding us of the perverse way it defeated our humanity while increasing our understanding and power. Extracts from Donald KUSPIT. Polish born Igor Mitoraj studied at the Cracow Academy of Art under Tadeuz Kantor. In 1968, he moved to Paris, began sculpting in the following years and held his first one man show in 1976. Represented by JGM Gallery in Paris, he has held two major one man exhibitions in 1991 and 1993.