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Enrico Baj
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Enrico Baj
An Italian villa never before open to the public houses a trove of artistic creativity and design by one of the central figures of the Italian neo–avant garde. Not far from Milan, in the hills of the northern Italian countryside, lies the estate of famed Italian artist Enrico Baj. This jewel of a book offers a unique lens through which to consider a true artistic giant of the late twentieth century associated with Dada, Surrealism, Art Informel, and CoBrA, as well as Nuclear Art, a movement he cofounded. Organized as a tour of the artist’s home, from full rooms designed with a great attention to detail to entire walls covered floor to ceiling with paintings by the artist to a headboard c...
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Enrico Baj: Play as Protest
Enrico Baj's works look playful, colourful and humorous, but simultaneously show his sharp socio-critical, even anarchist, attitude. Baj himself stated that "only fun can validly oppose the system". Baj used play as a form of engagement and creation as a form of protest. His work was a protest against fascism, totalitarian systems, the power of the ruling class and the potential annihilation of the environment (the then new nuclear threat). The exhibition shows how Baj playfully used the strategies of satire and deliberate disrespect as means of protest against a society that seems to be on the constant verge of self-destruction. Exhibition: Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands (04.02.-14.05.2017).
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Enrico Baj, Martin Kersels
Catalogue réunissant les séries de travaux réalisées autour du mobilier par deux artistes de générations différentes mais ayant en commun un même refus de l'autorité, les tableaux d'Enrico Baj (1924-2003) produits au début des années 1960 répondant aux sculptures inédites de Martin Kersels (1960).0Trente-cinq ans séparent les deux artistes réunis à la faveur de leurs séries mobilières respectives. En choisissant tous deux l'absurde et le grotesque comme expression de leur travail, ils dénoncent le conformisme de la société qui est la leur. Les meubles qu'ils représentent sont cabossés, branlants, reconstitués, tordus. De leur fragilité anthropomorphe nai?t une résistance au conservatisme qui revendique le droit à la différence, à la précarité, à la chute. S'ils ne l'expriment pas de la même fac?on, mais toujours avec de l'humour, qu'il soit cynique ou nostalgique, Enrico Baj et Martin Kersels laissent tomber les masques que chacun de nous porte, perpétrant une comédie sociale dans laquelle triomphent les faux-semblants et l'hypocrisie.00Exhibition: galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris (10.06-23.07.2022).
Pop Impressions Europe/USA
Essay by Wendy Weitman.
Rethinking Postwar Europe
The book "Rethinking Postwar Europe" offers an in-depth insight into the largely unexplored topic of artistic practices in the 1940s and 1950s in Europe which until recently had been obscured by ideologies of the Cold War. Thanks to the authors' diverse methodological backgrounds, the volume presents – for the first time – a comprehensive multilayered narrative, focusing on the complexities and entanglements in the artistic field. Instead of assessing the postwar period in the traditional way as divided by the Iron Curtain, the contributions investigate processes of contact, interaction, dissemination, overlapping, and networking. Consequently, the analysis of a diversified European modernism in both its aesthetic and its socio-political dimension resonates with all the different case studies. In particular, the volume looks at how artists developed, designed and (re)negotiated identities and discourses, and sheds new light on the power of art – and creative powers in general – in a postwar setting of mutilations, losses, and devastations.
