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 valued for the high quality 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, including the most recent: 'Tindaro', 'Icarus and Ikaria', were set up there at three different points in the district. This realisation was initiated by the 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".