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...EVEN Mirko's telling of how he makes a sculpture could fit any of at least 1000 great and minor artisst today. There is material--styrofoam, bronze, wood, automobile parts, plexiglass, wood. Material tells you what is permissible--bronze cannot be translucent, while plexiglass makes Mirko play with its strange transparency. Uncolored plexiglass does not exist visually, until you cut it. So it is the elimination of material that makes the form, while the bulk makes a void...
Then there is nature, from which most of his coherent forms come. Bird wings, insect claws around flowers, snakes--anthropomorphic forms are a major source for Mirko...
...stands out in nature and in Mirko's sculpture. Noses, arms and faces turn up frequently. Many of his objects are totem-pole-like--the piece by the Holyoke Center express elevator is one example, although this work is less interesting and more rigidly rectilinear than most in his studio...
...Mirko believes in the vertical and the horizontal because "the vertical is from nature; it is man, tree. It is the active and the horizontal is the passive, like death...
Individual memory and memory of mankind figure in the images. Mirko's titles are mythical, Biblical, and concerned with ritual. He looks for "another dimension," a way to evoke a total, rather than merely an intellectual response in the viewer." Abstract form is the common denominator," Mirko said...