Screen Printing and Collage by Enrico Baj Italy 1971

"Stratège au Double Jeu" 1971

Code: ARARCO0174462

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Screen Printing and Collage by Enrico Baj Italy 1971

"Stratège au Double Jeu" 1971

Code: ARARCO0174462

not available

Screen Printing and Collage by Enrico Baj Italy 1971 - "Stratège au Double Jeu" 1971

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"Stratège au Double Jeu" 1971

Artist:  Enrico Baj (1924-2003)

Artwork title:  Stratège au double jeu

Age:  Contemporary , 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject:  Caricatures, satirical drawings

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Mixed Media

Technical specification:  Print with Applications

Description : Stratège au double jeu

Screen printing and collage (trimmings and fabric inserts, metal elements). Signed lower right. Serial number 34/500 lower left. The work proposes one of the most beloved series of collages by the BAJ, that of the Generali, made in the sixties and then resumed in the following decade (the Parata series is from the 1979 Parade): the military are represented, as its use, with an ironically critical spirit, becoming anthropomorphic figures, extremely deformed, in a highly ridiculous attitude. Painter, sculptor and essayist, Baj went through the season of the fifties and sixties alongside Fontana, Manzoni, Klein. He joined various artistic movements that made the history of the twentieth century: the Nouveau Réalisme, the Surrealism, the Pataphysics, the Nuclear Movement. From these choices the soul of this artist and his ability to eviscerate reality down to the atomic dimensions, elaborating a completely personal interpretation of it immediately transpires. With the use of the most disparate materials such as wood, fabrics, mechanics, hydraulic pipes, Baj has given us a monstrous vision of the world, through fashion as a degraded form of art and through the uncontrollable progress of technology, now queen of mankind, responsible for its robotization and the modern prevailing of form over substance. With his collages, such as the one proposed here (characterized by the most disparate materials such as trimmings, medals and buttons), Baj fights his personal crusade against stereotypes and denounces the vulgarity of society, with a desecrating flavor that often leads to the poetics of the grotesque . In frame.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition which may show slight traces of wear; it may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 106
Width: 78
Depth: 6

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 90
Width: 60

Additional Information

Artist: Enrico Baj (1924-2003)

Enrico Baj born in Milan in 1924, then began his medical studies at the University of Milan, to abandon them after the Second World War in favor of the Faculty of Law (which he completed by becoming a lawyer) and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts , which he attended in parallel. Baj always had relations with Italian and foreign poets and writers (André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Queneau, Edoardo Sanguineti, Umberto Eco and others) and collaborated with his own illustrations on the editions of classical and modern texts. In 1951 he held his first solo show at the San Fedele Gallery in Milan, where he exhibited informal works; in the same year, together with Sergio Dangelo, he founded the Nuclear Painting Movement. In 1953, together with Asger Jorn, he founded the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, in controversy with Max Bill's School of Ulm; in 1954 the two artists gave life to the International Meetings of ceramics in Albissola Marina at the Ceramiche Mazzotti. In the 1950s he collaborated with the avant-garde magazines Il Gesto, Boa and Phases. Over the years, the passion for writing increased, leading to the publication of numerous books. In 1957 he signed the manifesto Against Style and held his first solo show abroad, at Gallery One in London. In 1962 he participated in the exhibition The Art of Assemblage in New York, on the occasion of which he met Duchamp. Between 1963 and 1966 he spent a lot of time in Paris, where he joined the Collège de 'Pataphysique. In 1964 he obtained a personal room at the Venice Biennale and in the same year he exhibited at the Milan Triennale. Always attentive to the social aspects of his work, in 1972 he consecrated a large canvas to the "Funeral of the anarchist Pinelli", where he resumed his figures inspired by Guernica and his own grotesque and parody characters. After 40 years, the work was exhibited at the Palazzo Reale in Milan in the summer of 2012. Baj used different techniques, from dripping to collage (collages made of different materials, medals, buttons, trimmings, mixed with painting), sometimes at the same time together with inlay and veneer.

Age:

Contemporary

Contemporary

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject: Caricatures, satirical drawings

Artistic technique: Mixed Media

Technical specification: Print with Applications

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