Screen Printing and Collage by Enrico Baj Italy 1971 - "Stratège au Double Jeu" 1971

Features

Artist:  Enrico Baj (1924-2003)

Artwork title:  Stratège au double jeu

Age:  Contemporary , 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject:  Caricatures, satirical drawings

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Mixed Media

Technical specification:  Print with Applications

Description : Stratège au double jeu

Screen printing and collage (trimmings and fabric inserts, metal elements). Signed lower right. Serial number 34/500 lower left. The work proposes one of the most beloved series of collages by the BAJ, that of the Generali, made in the sixties and then resumed in the following decade (the Parata series is from the 1979 Parade): the military are represented, as its use, with an ironically critical spirit, becoming anthropomorphic figures, extremely deformed, in a highly ridiculous attitude. Painter, sculptor and essayist, Baj went through the season of the fifties and sixties alongside Fontana, Manzoni, Klein. He joined various artistic movements that made the history of the twentieth century: the Nouveau Réalisme, the Surrealism, the Pataphysics, the Nuclear Movement. From these choices the soul of this artist and his ability to eviscerate reality down to the atomic dimensions, elaborating a completely personal interpretation of it immediately transpires. With the use of the most disparate materials such as wood, fabrics, mechanics, hydraulic pipes, Baj has given us a monstrous vision of the world, through fashion as a degraded form of art and through the uncontrollable progress of technology, now queen of mankind, responsible for its robotization and the modern prevailing of form over substance. With his collages, such as the one proposed here (characterized by the most disparate materials such as trimmings, medals and buttons), Baj fights his personal crusade against stereotypes and denounces the vulgarity of society, with a desecrating flavor that often leads to the poetics of the grotesque . In frame.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition which may show slight traces of wear; it may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 106
Width: 78
Depth: 6

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 90
Width: 60