🇮🇹 Igor Mitoraj in Pisa

Pisa's Piazza dei Miracoli — one of the world's great architectural ensembles — is home to two permanent Mitoraj bronzes. Angelo Caduto (Fallen Angel) stands at the foot of the Leaning Tower, a monumental bronze figure of a fallen winged figure whose cracked form echoes the ancient ruins around it. Icaro is also permanently installed in the square. Both works remained after Mitoraj's major 2014 exhibition "Angeli" and are confirmed permanent installations, visible to visitors year-round.

The 2014 exhibition Angeli at Piazza dei Miracoli was the last major project Mitoraj completed before his death in October of that year. He had insisted on the location: no site in Italy offers a more powerful conversation between ancient stone and contemporary bronze than the Campo dei Miracoli, where the Cathedral, Baptistery and Leaning Tower have stood for nearly a thousand years. Angelo Caduto has remained at the foot of the tower since the exhibition closed, permanently installed. It joins Icaro as a lasting mark of Mitoraj's profound dialogue with the Italian classical tradition.

The Piazza dei Miracoli — officially the Piazza del Duomo — is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the finest architectural ensembles in the world, comprising the Cathedral (begun 1063), the Baptistery (1152), the Camposanto monumental cemetery, and the famous Leaning Tower. Mitoraj was deeply aware of the weight of this context. His choice to place Angelo Caduto at the foot of the tower — rather than at a discreet distance — was deliberately confrontational, and deliberately humble: a fallen figure at the base of the world's most famous structural imperfection.

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