Personaggio 1964
Enrico Baj
Papier
38 ⨯ 28 cm
ConditionExcellent
€ 195
Hans den Hollander Prints
- Sur l'oeuvre d'artmedium: 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. - Sur l'artisteEnrico Baj était un artiste et écrivain italien sur l'art. Beaucoup de ses œuvres montrent une obsession pour la guerre nucléaire. En 1951, il fonde le mouvement Arte nucleare avec Sergio Dangelo, qui, contrairement à l'art abstrait, est très poitical. Il était proche des mouvements surréaliste et Dada et a ensuite été associé à CoBrA. Il réalise de nombreuses œuvres utilisant des motifs inspirés par d'autres artistes, de Léonard de Vinci à Picasso. En tant qu'auteur, il a été décrit comme l'un des principaux promoteurs de l'avant-garde. Son travail a continué à être politique. Au cours de ses dernières années, il a créé une série de peintures pour protester contre l'élection de Berlusconi.
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