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Igor Mitoraj’S Accomplishments for European and Polish Art History is yet another testament to the significance of Igor Mitoraj’s accomplishments for European and Polish art history. It demonstrates how the IGOR MITORAJ sculptor re-uses and draws on the European culture based on its ancient and Judeo-Christian roots. It makes visible the incessant process A Dialogue Between of dialogue between Christian and classical elements in Mitoraj’s figurative sculpture, Art and History showcasing the evolution of the contents and iconography of the artist’s agenda: from mythology to Christian theology, through the A documentary exhibition showing photographs Christianisation of pagan myths. of sculptures by the internationally-celebrated Polish artist Igor Mitoraj (1944 – 2014), whose Yet the London exhibition is, moreover, a works are found in public locations in some 44 vociferous call for the restoration in Poland, in cities throughout the world. Three of his sculptures the Polish art history of the twentieth century, are sited in public spaces at Canary Wharf. An of the artistic achievements of Polish artists artist who has been called ‘A Michelangelo from who, after 1945, were active outside communist the East’, Mitoraj created a body of work that Poland. These artists, overlooked and forgotten combines the antiquity of Greece and Rome with for almost 70 years, find it extremely hard to a postmodern sensibility, creating enigmatic and penetrate not only the general consciousness, haunting sculptures all portraying the human but also official, scholarly studies on Polish figure, at times fragmented, hollow, and on a contemporary art. The exhibition then is a call massive scale as well as in diminutive renditions. to push out of the shadow Polish art created outside Poland – today remaining ‘in the waiting The title and concept of the exhibition, which room of art’ – and to include it in the official was instigated by Professor Bohdan Michalski and bloodstream called ‘Polish contemporary art’. Dr Beata Klocek di Biasio of the Foundation for Dialogue in Warsaw, derives in large part from Today all the studies in the field of contemporary Ikaro alato 2000 John Paul Olympic Centre, Warsaw Photograph: Szymon Sikora the first monograph on this important artist, Polish art continue to address only the ‘history The Works of Igor Mitoraj, A Dialogue between of art in Poland’, i.e. the art created within the Art and History by Dr Beata Klocek di Biasio. borders of the People’s Republic of Poland (until 1989) and of the Third Republic of The exhibition is supported by the Polish Cultural Centauro 1984 Montgomery Square, Canary Wharf Tindaro screpolato 1998 Old Market Square, Krakow Poland. Writing a complete history of Polish art, Institute, London Photograph: Philip Vile Photograph: Tadeusz Cukier comprising that art created on the River Vistula Based in London, the Polish Cultural Institute is dedicated and the output of exiled artists, including the rich to nurturing and promoting cultural ties between the Ikaria 1987 Valle dei Templi,Agrigento oeuvre of Igor Mitoraj is still ahead of us. United Kingdom and Poland, both through British exposure Photograph: Andrzej Kiełbowski Igor Mitoraj: Michelangelo The war dealt a serious blow to the tissue of to Poland’s cultural achievements, and through exposure the artistic community in Poland: this wound Warsaw, 21 February 2019 of Polish artists and scholars to British trends, institutions with Polish Roots would not heal, repeatedly torn open by further and colleagues. Its flagship project is the annual Kinoteka Professor Sienkiewicz is an art historian, art critic, Polish Film Festival promoting Polish film industry by Professor Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz, Ph.D, D. Litt waves of emigration, in 1956, 1968, 1970, 1980, during martial law 1981-1983, in the years after and university professor in the Department of the showing debut titles and well-known cult movies alike, inviting guests, collaborating with visual artists and well- The artistic accomplishments of the eminent the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and after History of Art and Émigré Polish Culture, Nicolaus recognised musicians. sculptor Igor Mitoraj, an artist of Polish descent Poland’s European Union accession in 2004. Copernicus University, Toruñ, Poland. and with a Polish soul, were still, during his lifetime, After the Second World War, Polish art developed The Institute works with many institutions, galleries widely recognised among art connoisseurs and concurrently at home and in exile, and was and companies in the UK, including Barbican Centre, lovers of his talent. Yet it is only recently that this therefore fed by two bloodstreams. Whitechapel Gallery, British Library, Shakespeare’s oeuvre has been subject to an in-depth evaluation Birthplace Trust, National Gallery, BFI Southbank, and The Globe. in Poland, thanks to many years of research and The art created in what was known as the People’s work on the sculptor’s legacy spearheaded by Republic of Poland was called ‘Polish art’. By For more information visit: polishculture.org.uk Professor Bohdan Michalski and Dr Beata Klocek contrast the art created outside Poland – apart di Biasio. The two Polish scholars, wishing to from some names, especially of artists living in restore Mitoraj’s artistic achievements and assure France – was not (for various reasons) a matter their due place in the history of Polish art of of interest to artists or scholars. At present, an the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, knew estimated 18-20 million Poles or people of Polish perfectly well that Mitoraj’s work – like that of descent live outside Poland; among them there other Polish artists and those of Polish descent, are a large number of artists, perhaps as many With special thanks to be they painters, sculptors, graphic artists, as thousands. After 1945, many Polish artists architects, applied art and new media artists, settled mainly in the United Kingdom. Yet there MINISTRY OF CULTURE and NATIONAL HERITAGE of the REPUBLIC of POLAND photographers, art critics, dealers, collectors, were also sizeable diasporas of Polish artists in and musicologists active outside the historical France (where Igor Mitoraj worked for a spell THE POLISH INSTITUTE OF WORLD ART STUDIES too), in the United States of America, in South borders of Poland – is part and parcel of the most EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC of POLAND in LONDON America – especially in Argentina and Brazil – and important phenomena in the history of Polish JAN MATEJKO ACADEMY of FINE ARTS in KRAKOW artistic culture. Due to several waves of migrations in Australia. A large group of Polish artists chose of Polish artists, these phenomena continue to call Italy as their second homeland; this is what Igor Collegium luridicum Jagiellonian University, Krakow luridicum Jagiellonian University, Collegium for recognition, examination and inclusion in the Mitoraj ultimately did as well. currently incomplete canon of Polish contemporary Dr Beata Klocek di Biasio’s monograph and the art. Through the years, the largest Polish artistic present exhibition of photographs of the artist’s communities outside Poland, of émigrés, exiles or sculptures on display in the lobby of One Canada expats (each of these notions is defined differently Square in London’s commercial centre Canary today), began to emerge after the outbreak of the Wharf, are but the onset of a debate on the Second World War and in the wake of the post- Honorary Patrons oeuvre of this eminent Polish artist who worked Yalta division of Europe into zones of influence. Jarosław SELLIN, Deputy Minister for Culture and National for decades outside Poland. The London show Heritage of the Republic of Poland Torso Ikaria grande 2002 (detail) Old Market Square, Krakow Photograph: Tadeusz Cukier Sir George IACOBESCU CBE, Chairman, Canary Wharf Group plc Cover image – Luci di Nara 1991 image – Luci di Nara Cover Cukier Tadeusz Photograph: Selected Cities, Museums, Institutions and Open-air Spaces where Sculptures by Igor Mitoraj can be seen: Biographical Notes Agrigento, Valle dei Laval, Ministère des Principautè de Templi Finances Monaco, Fontevieille Igor (Jerzy) Mitoraj was born in 1944 in Oederan, Amsterdam, Philips London, The British Regensburg, Germany, the illegitimate child of a Polish mother, who Foundation Museum Gewerbepark was displaced as a forced labourer in Germany, and a Andros (Cyclades), London, Canary Wharf Roma, Basilica di French officer, who was a prisoner of war in a German Museum of Santa Maria degli Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, County Angeli e dei Martiri POW camp. Igor grew up in Poland in a village near B. & E. Goulandris Museum of Art Roma, Cassa di Foundation Auschwitz, and spent his youth in Krakow, studying Lausanne, Musée Risparmio di Roma Olympique IGOR MITORAJ Angers, Place Saint-Éloi in the Faculty of Painting and Printmaking at Krakow Roma, Fintermica Academy of Fine Arts in 1966-68. Under the tutelage Atlanta, Coca-Cola Lausanne, Parc Jacorossi Foundation Olympique of Tadeusz Kantor, he was introduced to contemporary Roma, Fondazione A Dialogue Between Lugano, Centro storico artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Mario Bamberg, Memmo Internationales Łódź, Muzeum Sztuki Roma, Piazza Monte Merz and Yves Klein. However he remained faithful to Künstlerhaus Villa Grappa Art and History figurative representation in drawing, encaustic painting Concordia, Kunstverein Massa Marittima, Centro storico Roma, Valentino Spa and above all sculpture. Belfort, Place Henry Baudin Milan, Agusta S.p.A. San Francisco, Rosenkranz Berlin, Sammlung Milan, Assicurazioni In 1968 he went to Paris to continue his studies at the Foundation Würth Tirrenia École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (National Saint Louis, The Chicago, Hilton Milan, Barona Gateway Foundation High School of Fine Arts). His first solo exhibition at the International Company Milan, Piazza del La Hune Gallery in 1976 was successful and he received Santa Cruz de Tenerife Florence, Cassa di Carmine important awards including the Montrouge Prix de la Risparmio di Firenze Milan, Rusconi Editore Scheveningen, Museum Beelden Sculpture. In the 1970s he visited Mexico and Guatemala Florence, Giardino di aan Zee to study South American and Aztec cultures.
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