Contemporary Artists activ in Italy

Impruneta terracotta vases

On the last 3rd of October of 2009 the Florentines were offered a free guided tour of the new Italian Bank “Cassa di Risparmio”  situated in an area of Florence called “Novoli” where many new buildings such as the new Court and University of Florence are being build.

As always with the Italians art and design are an important mark of this new building. At the back

we find a formal garden created with the typical mediterranean flora that one can usually find along the coast of Italy. As an additional Tuscan touch we can admire ligned up terracotta vases with lemon trees that cannot be missed in the usual Toscana garden or park.

IGOR MITORAJ is a living contemporary Polnish artist whose works can be seen inside the Boboli Gardens behind the Pitti Palace in Florence, in Greve in Chianti, in Pietrasanta near the Tuscan coast where he opened his atelier years ago and now in the garden and inside the building of the new “Cassa di Risparmio” in Florence.