patinated bronze/stone, 48 cm (all)
signed: 'MITORAJ'
described: C 314/1000 HC
"For me, mythology is always connected with human life. The gods on Olympus were passionate, vindictive, drawn completely into earthly events. They did not avoid incest, kidnapping, murder [...]. Today's heroes also have no shortage of problems, passions, resentments, and the Underworld is just a shrill everyday reality that we have to live in and from which we try to get out through art. I refer to ancient myths with a contemporary sensibility, with a very personal feeling [...] art is also a search for oneself. It is a kind of self-analysis, psychoanalytic therapy." Igor Mitoraj
(quoted in Beata Klocek di Biasio, _Mitoraj - dialogue of art with history_, Warsaw 2020, p. 78).
