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Vintage painting "Etching and aquatint", by Enrico Baj, Italy 1960
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Aquatint, etching, Guernica, Enrico Baj, Italy 1960, Baj Chez Picasso 2 Etching and aquatint by Enrico Baj Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. The work is in excellent condition. Additional images are available upon request. Enrico Baj, one of the most important Italian artists of the 1950s and 1960s, was born in Milan in 1924. After graduating from high school, he began studying medicine at the University of Milan, which he abandoned after World War II in favor of studying law (which he completed by becoming a lawyer) and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, often in parallel. In 1951, he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan, where he presented Informal works. In 1952, together with Sergio Dangelo, he signed the Nuclear Painting Manifesto, and in 1954, together with Asger Jorn, he founded the International Movement for an Imaginative Bauhaus, which opposed the excessive rationalization and geometricization of art. In 1957, he signed the manifesto Against Style, which sought to affirm the uniqueness of the work of art. For Enrico Baj, these were years of great reflection and intellectual exchange thanks to his contacts with international artists such as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Joe Colombo, Lucio Del Pezzo, Giò Pomodoro, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Yves Klein. In his artistic research, which is expressed in multi-material and polychrome collages, two tendencies can be distinguished: a more playful and ironic one, in which the pleasure of painting with any type of material prevails, and a more sarcastic one, marked by a strong commitment that is expressed in the generals and military parades of the 1960s, and even more so in the works of the 1970s, such as I funerali dell'anarchico Pinelli (1972) and L'apocalisse (1979). From that moment on, his criticism of contemporaneity becomes increasingly forceful. In the series Metamorfosi e metafore (1988), Baj develops an imaginary world dominated by kitsch, the only style that, according to the artist, succeeds in representing today's culture. In the 1990s, he created series of tribal masks, felts, and totems that express modern primitivism by recycling everyday objects. The artist's relationships with Italian and foreign poets and writers have led to various collaborations and the creation of several artist's books, accompanied by original prints or multiples. Baj died in Vergiate (Varese) on June 16, 2003. 1970s Height: 50 cm Width: 71 cm Depth: 2 cm
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Verona, ItalyOn Whoppah since October 2024 • 3 sales