Igor Mitoraj *
(Oederan 1944–2014 Paris)
Ècorce, 2001, signed and numbered 2/8, bronze (dark brown patina), 78 x 62 x 27 cm, with stand: 182 x 62 x 49.5 cm
This work is numbered 2 from an edition of 8 examples

This work is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity signed by the artist

Provenance:
Galleria d‘Arte Contini, Venice
European Private Collection

Mitoraj has always endeavoured to deliver the battalion that our time desires above all but is unable to achieve: that is, the moral, ethical, religious, even theological, value of beauty. It was precisely by continuing to hammer home this need, with the patient and stubborn constancy with which ancient blacksmiths struck iron, that Mitoraj intimately discovered the pain, the 'tears and blood' of which such beauty cannot but 'drip'.

From: Appunti sulle ultime opere di Mitoraj, in Igor Mitoraj, texts by Donald Kuspit and Giovanni Testori, Fabbri Editori 1991