Poster of the exhibition Baj chez Baj @ Palazzo Reale
Robot of my son
One hundred years after his birth, Milan is about to celebrate (Palazzo Reale, 8 October 2024 – 9 February 2025), one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: Enrico Baj
A work by Enrico Baj
The project curated by Chiara Gatti and Roberta Cerini Baj, collects over fifty works ranging from the 1950s to the 2000s, through all the phases of research and experimentation that have characterized the artist’s work.
A work by Enrico Baj
Enrico Baj was born in Milan in 1924, trained at the Brera Academy and in 1951 founded the Movimento Arte Nucleare with Sergio Dangelo and Gianni Dova. He subsequently joined numerous avant-garde artistic movements, always with the same disenchanted attitude towards the power of society.
Berenice, work by Enrico Baj, 1960
The multi-material collages are the most iconographic theme represented by Baj, a form of expression that wants to be joy but also criticism, genius and irreverence, characterized by his grotesque and bizarre beings that, behind the playful appearance, hide and denounce the petty aspects of humanity, such as war and abuse.
Parata a sei, work by Enrico Baj, 1964
The beautiful exhibition that Palazzo Reale will dedicate to the Milanese master will also be an opportunity to see Baj’s masterpieces but also the great texts of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century who knew him, such as André Breton, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, underlining the great passion for literature that Baj even explored by writing texts and creating illustrated books.
“Painting is a path – a path that I have chosen – towards freedom. It is a practice of freedom”. Enrico Baj.
Enrico Baj in his studio
Lily by Beatrice Brandini
It will be wonderful to immerse yourself in this “enchanted” world characterized by generals, ladies, parades and soldiers. And to understand how Baj was far-sighted, the fear and bewilderment towards the future are the same that we feel, with the difference that history has not taught us much, nor made us wiser.
Good life to everyone!
Beatrice