Pietrasanta, museum foundation dedicated to Igor Mitoraj is born

The “Igor Mitoraj” Museum Foundation is born in Pietrasanta: in fact, the foundation charter and bylaws were signed yesterday morning at the Ministry of Culture. "The birth of this Foundation reaffirms the Ministry’s interest in enhancing the great protagonists of contemporary art such as Igor Mitoraj who, with his work, has contributed to enhancing the territory of Pietrasanta, where the Polish sculptor had opened a studio since 1983, nurturing the artistic vocation of the area," said Culture Minister Dario Franceschini.

The foundation will have the task of cataloging, preserving, ordering and exhibiting the works of the Mitoraj collection, recovering their memory, and offering the public the chance to appreciate them from the historical-artistic and cultural point of view and for the role they have played for the territory.

Present at the formal act were, in addition to Franceschini, Tuscany Region President Eugenio Giani, MiC Secretary General Salvatore Nastasi, Pietrasanta Mayor Alberto Stefano Giovannetti and Pietrasanta City Council Culture Director Monica Torti.

"The Foundation will be one more piece to relaunch the work of an international artist like Igor Mitoraj,“ commented President Giani. ”We must say thank you to our artisans whose art made Pietrasanta great and created an environment that welcomed and nurtured an artist like Igor Mitoraj. With the Museum dedicated to him and with the birth of the Foundation we tie his name to our city forever," added Mayor Giovannetti.

Founding partners of the Mitoraj Foundation are the Ministry of Culture, the Region of Tuscany and the Municipality of Pietrasanta. It will be based in the same museum where the ’Igor Mitoraj’ Collection is kept , in the former Pietrasanta Municipal Market on Via Oberdan.

Pietrasanta, museum foundation dedicated to Igor Mitoraj is born

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