Personaggio 1964
Enrico Baj
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38 ⨯ 28 cm
ConditionExcellent
€ 195
Hans den Hollander Prints
- A proposito di opere d'artemedium: Relief Print
edition size: 265
reference: Petit no 100
from: portfolio "Paroles Peintes"
publisher: O. Lazar-Vernet, Paris
Enrico Baj was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, sculptures but especially collage. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associated with CoBrA. As an author he has been described as a leading promoter of the avant-garde. He worked with Umberto Eco among other collaborators. He had a long interest in the pseudo-philosophy 'pataphysics.
He was born in Milan into a wealthy family, but left Italy in 1944 having upset the authorities and to avoid conscription. He studied at the Milan University law faculty and the Brera Academy of Art.
In 1951 he founded the arte nucleare movement with Sergio Dangelo, which unlike abstract art was overtly political. Baj himself was aligned with the anarchist movement. His most well-known pieces are probably the series of "Generals": absurd characters made from found objects such as belts or medals.
He made numerous works using motifs from other artists, from Leonardo da Vinci to Picasso. Sometimes he recreated entire works of other painters.
In 1972 public display of a major work, "Funeral Of The Anarchist Pinelli" (a reference to Carlo Carrà's famous painting The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli of 1911) was banned after the murder of the police officer believed to be responsible for Giuseppe Pinelli's death in custody. However his work continued to be political. In 1989 he designed thirty marionettes for Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir, an opera by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero to a libretto by Anthony Burgess, written for the bicentenary of the French Revolution. In his last years he created a series of paintings in protest at the election of Silvio Berlusconi. He died in Vergiate, Italy. - A proposito di opere artistaEnrico Baj è stato un artista e scrittore d'arte italiano. Molte delle sue opere mostrano un'ossessione per la guerra nucleare. Nel 1951 fonda con Sergio Dangelo il movimento Arte nucleare, che a differenza dell'astrattismo è molto poitico. Era vicino ai movimenti surrealisti e dada e in seguito fu associato a CoBrA. Ha realizzato numerose opere utilizzando motivi di altri artisti, da Leonardo da Vinci a Picasso. Come autore è stato descritto come uno dei principali promotori dell'avanguardia. Il suo lavoro continuò ad essere politico. Negli ultimi anni ha realizzato una serie di dipinti per protestare contro l'elezione di Berlusconi.
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