ENRICO BAJ
(Milano 1924 - Vergiate (VA) 2003)
After Watergate
mixed technique, cm50x60
signed lower right
performed in 1974
Provenance
Private collection
At the end of the Sixties, the first ironic and parodic footage of Picasso's works took shape in the production of Baj; at the same time they date the first works for which he used plastic materials, already used in the past and from that moment used, for example, in Ties, a symbol of Western culture, exhibited at the 15th Lissone prize (1967) and at the Studio Marconi of Milan (1969). Between a "continuity of ideological background [... and] what we could call a continuity of confirmation", since the early seventies Baj came to new goals and "great imaginative spikes", which led him above all to the installation and "environmental dissemination" . (E. Crispolti, in the General Catalog, 1997, page 9)
(Milano 1924 - Vergiate (VA) 2003)
After Watergate
mixed technique, cm50x60
signed lower right
performed in 1974
Provenance
Private collection
At the end of the Sixties, the first ironic and parodic footage of Picasso's works took shape in the production of Baj; at the same time they date the first works for which he used plastic materials, already used in the past and from that moment used, for example, in Ties, a symbol of Western culture, exhibited at the 15th Lissone prize (1967) and at the Studio Marconi of Milan (1969). Between a "continuity of ideological background [... and] what we could call a continuity of confirmation", since the early seventies Baj came to new goals and "great imaginative spikes", which led him above all to the installation and "environmental dissemination" . (E. Crispolti, in the General Catalog, 1997, page 9)