Igor Mitoraj (March 1944 – October 2014) was a Polish artist and sculptor
known for his fragmented sculptures of the human body often created for
large-scale public installations. Mitoraj's sculptural style is rooted in the
classical tradition with its focus on the well modelled torso. However, Mitoraj
introduced a post-modern twist with ostentatiously truncated limbs, emphasising
the damage sustained by most genuine classical sculptures. Often his works aim
to address the questions of human body, its beauty and fragility, its suffering
as well as deeper aspects of human nature, which as a result of the passing of
time undergo degeneration.
