Igor Mitoraj, "Tyndareus", 1983, unveiling 2000, bronze, Paris, La Défense district, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2010
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Igor Mitoraj\'s \'Tyndareus\' sculptures in Paris and Florence
Igor Mitoraj, "Tyndareus", 1983, unveiling 2000, bronze, Paris, La Défense district, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2010
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Igor Mitoraj\'s \'Tyndareus\' sculptures in Paris and Florence
Igor Mitoraj, "Tyndareus", 1983, unveiling 2000, bronze, Paris, La Défense district, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2010
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Igor Mitoraj\'s \'Tyndareus\' sculptures in Paris and Florence
Igor Mitoraj, "Tyndareus", 1983, unveiling 2000, bronze, Paris, La Défense district, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2010
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Igor Mitoraj\'s \'Tyndareus\' sculptures in Paris and Florence
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Igor Mitoraj's 'Tyndareus' sculptures in Paris and Florence

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Igor Mitoraj's 'Tyndareus' sculptures in Paris and Florence

Variants of the name:

Tindaro

Informacja o obiekcie:

A giant male head in classical profile, framed in a fragmentary formula typical of the artist, suggesting the damage of an ancient cast. Mitoraj's bronze sculptures, alluding in form to ancient art and with their titles to classical culture and mythology or general Italian associations, adorn numerous public places and buildings around the world. Loved precisely because of these allusions, the traditional noble material, but also mostly appreciated for the high class of their sculptural craftsmanship, they have become a recurring component of urban decoration. They are particularly often found in the vicinity of the cool office architecture of late modernism, with which they contrast with their apparent traditionalism. "The 'therapeutic' function of Mitoraj's sculptures in such places was brilliantly put by the American critic Donald Kuspit: "it is, as it were, a revival of the classical spirit in the midst of contemporary unspirituality and decline in spirit".

The vast esplanade spaces of Paris' new office district, La Défense, are home to many sculptures by well-known contemporary artists. In 2000, Mitoraj's bronze works were set up there at three different points in the district: 'Tindaro', 'Icarus and Icaria'. The initiative to set up the sculptures in La Défense was the brainchild of Parisian art dealer Jean-Gabriel Mitterand, whose JGM Gallery promotes and sells Mitoraj's works. According to Joanna Sitkowska-Bayle, 'the cast bronze silhouettes, flawed and mutilated, but not devoid of suggestiveness and strength, provide a kind of counterpoint to the perfectly delineated lines of the skyscrapers (...). They rise against the smooth facades of the buildings like castaways who have come to settle in a strange land".

In Florence, in the Boboli Gardens near Prato dei Castagni, there is another version of this sculpture in bronze, created in 1997. The work was donated by the artist to the Uffizi Gallery on the occasion of a monographic exhibition held at the Boboli Gardens and the National Archaeological Museum in Florence.

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Time of origin:

1983, unveiling 2000

Creator:

Igor Mitoraj (rzeźbiarz; Polska, Niemcy, Francja, Włochy)(preview)

Bibliography:

  • Mitoraj, kat. wyst. w MCK i na Rynku w Krakowie, Kraków 2006, s. 52, 69-71.
  • Joanna Sitkowska-Bayle, „Mitoraj na Défense”, „Art & Business”, 2000, nr 11, s. 25-27.

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Publikacja:

16.07.2024

Ostatnia aktualizacja:

28.09.2024

Author:

prof. Andrzej Pieńkos

Sheet update:

  • Bartłomiej Gutowski.
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Igor Mitoraj, "Tyndareus", 1983, unveiling 2000, bronze, Paris, La Défense district, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2010
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Igor Mitoraj, "Tyndareus", 1983, unveiling 2000, bronze, Paris, La Défense district, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2010
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Igor Mitoraj, "Tyndareus", 1983, unveiling 2000, bronze, Paris, La Défense district, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2010
Fotografia przedstawiająca Igor Mitoraj\'s \'Tyndareus\' sculptures in Paris and Florence Fotografia przedstawiająca Igor Mitoraj\'s \'Tyndareus\' sculptures in Paris and Florence Gallery of the object +3
Igor Mitoraj, "Tyndareus", 1983, unveiling 2000, bronze, Paris, La Défense district, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2010

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