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One of the copies of Igor Mitoraj's sculpture "Grande Toscano", Warsaw, photo Panek, 2023
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Igor Mitoraj's sculpture "Grande Toscano"

ID: POL-001785-P

Igor Mitoraj's sculpture "Grande Toscano"

The sculpture depicts a fragment of a male body cut out of its entirety: half of the face, half of the torso, with the left arm cut off. A male head is embedded in the window frame, with a mutilated and fragmented female torso directly embedded below it in the sculpture.

The 'Grande Toscano' sculpture has been interpreted in multiple ways. Some scholars point to the triumph of beauty over injury and of the whole over the fragment expressed in the artist's work.

According to other interpretations, the 'Grande Toscano' sculpture is a tribute to Tuscany and its people, by referring in style to the Renaissance Tuscan sculptor Donatello.

It is also sometimes interpreted as a record of Igor's personal experience. Indeed, the female head is an image of Alexandra, Igor Mitoraj's favourite model, with whom the artist had a great friendship. The female head, alluding to the title of the sculpture, may also be a symbol of Tuscany itself, which Igor immediately fell in love with and which was very close to him.

The sculpture located on Bobrowiecka Street is the third copy of the Grande Toscano. The other two are located in Paris and Milan.

Material : bronze

Location : (sculpture made in three copies)

La Défense (Paris, France)

square in front of the Spectra building, headquarters of Polpharma (6 Bobrowiecka Street, Warsaw, Poland)

Santa Maria del Carmine church square (Milan, Italy)

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Time of origin:
1981
Creator:
Igor Mitoraj (rzeźbiarz)
Author:
Agnieszka Stabro
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