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This article explores the shift in tenor and style undertaken by the Milan-based Movimento Arte Nuclear in between 1951 and 1959. Specifically, it explores the Enrico Baj's anarchic humanism affecting his depiction of the human figure... more
Curator's text for the exhibition catalog "Enrico Baj: Play as Protest" at Cobra Museum of Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, Feb-May 2017
Volume 13 of the Catalogue raisonné of the Orozco collection of artist and illustrated books as well as prints, dedicated to Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Enrico Baj, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Sam Francis, Robert Indiana,... more
The last act of World War II took place in the Summer of 1945 with the explosions of the atomic bomb. Despite the fact that these events took place far from the "old continent" some European artists were deeply affected by the power of... more
This paper intends to highlight the role the arts and the exhibition system had during WWII period in Milan—a strategic centre in the fields of politics, culture and economics. At that time we can notice two main occurrences: the Leonardo... more
Il progetto di Enrico Baj è riassumibile nella messa in pratica di «una ecologia dell’arte e dell’opera d’arte, che si pongono più che mai come metafora e simbolo del nostro immaginario, della nostra fantasia e, in definitiva, della... more
This article investigates the fruitful aesthetic imagery that unfolds in Antonioni’s L’eclisse (1962). Conventionally read as a political study of human alienation, the film is also a brilliant exercise in Modernist aesthetics, building... more
in Enrico Baj: Play as Protest, edited by Hilde de Bruijn and Carrie Pilto. Exhibition catalog, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, 4 February - 14 May 2017, pp. 113-128.
Testo nel catalogo (Vanilla Edizioni) della mostra “Baj. Figure dell’immaginario (1951-2003)”, Museo d’Arte di Palazzo Gavotti, Savona, 26 settembre – 13 dicembre 2015. La prima opera esposta in mostra è Quamisado II, dipinto nucleare... more
Fondazione Marconi, Milano Museo del Novecento, Firenze Conferenze a margine della mostra "Enrico Baj: l'invasione degli Ultracorpi" (Aosta, Museo Archeologico Regionale, 11 Giugno – 9 Ottobre 2016) a cura di Roberta Cerini Baj e Chiara... more
in Chiara Gatti (ed.) Enrico Baj. L’invasione degli ultracorpi (Aoste, Musée Archéologique Régionale June 11 – October 9 2016), Silvana, Cinisello Balsamo 2016, pp. 25-33.