(Post)klasycyzm Igora Mitoraja

Abstract

The (Post)Classicism of Igor Mitoraj

The work of Igor Mitoraj exists somewhere between Classicism and Postmodernism. It is located after Modernism, but also after Classicism. So what is classic in the work of Mitoraj? Myth, figurativeness, attachment to material and good workmanship, and beauty (at least declaredly). What does Mitoraj have in common with Postmodernism? Vagueness, understatement, fragmentation, emptiness, lack of a single narrative, double coding (eroticism), camp (oscillating around kitsch), departure from intellectualism in favor of metaphors. Some characteristic features linking Mitoraj with Classicism and Postmodernism are analyzed in the article: myth, beauty, eroticism and aesthetic reflection. The results of such analysis indicate that the reception of his art may significantly differ from what the author himself intended.