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...relevant surface patterning is a Mirko specialty. Sometimes the pattern relates to the material, but it is most interesting when it connects with the subject. In one soldier-type piece, Mirko gives the surface a reptilian pattern which suggests armor without duplicating it. Signs also appear on his surfaces--"from the blood, from ancestral things...
...Mirko s right when he denies stardom. To play Helen Hayes in the mid-twentieth century are scene which revolves around the blatantly rich New York market one must dream up a revolutionary original concept of art. There's Jackson Pollock, of course, who gave the physical making process so much more prominence than Mirko ever does. And there's Morris Louis, whose name and stripes of color are better known at Harvard than is Mirko. The action painter, the flat painter, the minimalist, the happening-creator, the sculptor of simple geometric forms at superhuman scale (Tony Smith...
...Most of Mirko's works could fit into a Radcliffe cubicle, and his thoughts and interests and forms by now seem traditional. The uniqueness of his sculpture is one of expressed personality and artistic choices, not fundamental conception...
...within tradition Mirko is very alive and open to new ways and ideas. When he came here from Italy he discovered styrofoam. He sketches in it--styrofoam is well-suited to sketching because it is easy to cut, join, and texture with just a fingernail or scrap of wood. And he modified the lost-wax casting technique to cast directly from styrofoam, and even egg cartons, to bronze. (In lost-wax casting, one puts a refracting material like plaster around a wax shape one wants to reproduce, melts out the wax once the plaster hardens and then pours in molten...
Critics have said that some patterns show Pre-Columbian influence, but Mirko denies this. And Mirko's patterns are less mazy and diffuse than those of often hallucination-inspired Pre-Columbian...