One of the artist's favourite sculptures. It took at least three years to create. It depicts a mythological centaur, half-horse, half-man, set on a pedestal on which the artist has placed fragments of busts with bandaged heads. In one of the busts a medallion with the face of a Gorgon. Beneath the Centaur's hooves a discarded, incomplete, headless and legless male torso with, possibly, Medusa's head ripped from the shield. The surface of the sculpture enriched with numerous elements of other sculptures, created in cages, e.g. a semi-profile of a face, reminiscent of an artist, or a female torso. On the male chest musculature, a fragment of tin armour with Medusa's head.

The artist himself said that in creating the Centaur he wanted to avoid at all costs the 19th century mannerism of the rider or horse. Instead, he created a classical form with an inscribed contemporary feel.

The sculpture perfectly combines the characteristic features of Mitoraj's style. The mythical figure, a symbol of strength and unbridled bravery, is flawed, mutilated and incomplete in the Polish sculptor's depiction. The limp arms of the 'Centaur' are another popular motif in Mitoraj's work. The Centaur's torso also shows inspiration from Michelangelo, a fascination with antiquity, antiquity, mythology.

Material : bronze

Location : Canary Wharf (an office complex in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England).

Piazza del Centauro, (Pietrasanta, Italy)