The bronze statue of the Centaur, on a small stone plinth, stands somewhat hidden in a square at the back of the historic town hall building, near the cathedral. Typical of Mitoraj's work, it fits perfectly into the landscape of a Tuscan artist's town: a quasi-antique torso, a mythological armless centaur, and bust fragments carved on the plinth, creating the suggestion of a collection of ancient finds.

The sculptor settled in Pietrasanta in the late 1980s, setting up a studio there. Located near Carrara, the town is famous for its stonemasons, specialising in marble work, as well as its excellent bronze foundries. Many artists from many countries have worked and lived here, including Fernando Botero, whose sculptures stand in the town near Mitoraj's work. The Polish sculptor also did painting decorations in the town hall and sculpting in one of the churches there. He took up the Centaur motif several times in his work, one version, for example, was exhibited in front of Krakow's Cloth Hall during Mitoraj's great retrospective in 2005, another was set up in 2003 in London's Canary Wharf district. In Milan, one was realised in 1991. 'Fountain of the Centaur'. The sculpture from Pietrasanta bears typical features of Mitoraj's 'conceptual classicism', operating with easy associations and formal paradoxes that undermine them. The seemingly antique bronze statue, reminiscent of the style of Greek sculptures of the classical period, is enriched (or impoverished) by various absurd insertions and cut-outs: a square hole with a human head in the side of the horse, a fragment resembling armour sliding off the pedestal, heads stuck into the plinth, a lance standing despite the absence of the hands that should be holding it.