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del arte clásico, sobre la perfección de las formas: cuerpos y torsos alados, vendajes, rostros durmientes o aparente ensoñación. Hermosas esculturas o fragmentos de ellas que no olvidan dejar constancia del efecto del paso del tiempo sobreviviendomás allá de los cuestionamientos, de la prisa, de la retórica. Artista creador de una obra que cuestiona, induce a reflexión, crea dilema, el polaco era un simbolista del sinsentido, un talentoso de la evocación, del poder de la nostalgia, de lo incierto de la modernidad. Mitoraj buscaba concienciar sobre el significado de la belleza y su papel dentro de nuestra existencia, algo que supo representar de unmodo extraordinario. busts, fractured anddismembered, were classical in stylebut with an unmistakably postmodern touch. Mitoraj trainedwithTadeuszKantor inKrakow, where he spent his childhood, andmoved toParis at the endof the 1970s. He settled inPietrasanta (Tuscany) in1983, wherewe can findmany of hisworks today. Despite not always enjoying critical praise, hewas well thought-of among thepopulace, probably due to his gift for transmittinghuman fragilitywithgreat skill and sensitivity. Indepicting largelymythological figures, he reflectedon thebeauty of classical art and theperfectionof form: winged torses andbodies, dressings, faces sleepingor apparently dreaming. Beautiful sculptures or fragments thereof thatmake thepassingof time felt, survivingbeyondquestioning, haste or rhetoric. An artist that created abody of work that questions, leads us to reflect, provokes adilemma; thisPolewas a symbolist of nonsense, talented at the evocationof nostalgia and the uncertain nature ofmodernity.Mitoraj sought to raise awareness of themeaningof beauty and its role inour existence, something that hewas able to represent in quite an extraordinary fashion. 40