From Saturday the 26th of September until Sunday the 13th of December 2015, Enrico Baj will be in Palazzo Gavotti with the exhibition Baj. Figures of the Imagination 1951-2003. Free entry!
The monograph dedicated to Enrico Baj (1924-2003), edited by Luca Bochicchio and Roberta Cerini Baj, follows the artist’s long career. In the exhibition you can admire nearly forty works, mostly paintings and two-dimensional assemblages. To entice visitors there will be some ceramics made at the factory Albisola Giuseppe Mazzotti during the 1950s on display, in addition to works created with unconventional materials such as metal, fabric and mirrors. Maintaining a balance between the ironic idea of using fun shapes and critical civil commitment, the evolution of Baj’s artistic language develops, in fact, through the use of countless techniques and materials.
The exhibition will give space to Baj’s experimental work starting with Quamisado II, masterpiece of the “nuclear” period, and ending with three anthropomorphic sculptures in ceramic, made by the artist in Albissola Marina during the famous International Ceramics Convention of 1954. Making an impact there will also be a series of Totems and masks, put into dialogue with the corresponding anthropomorphs from Meccano and Punching General, the last General created by Baj in 2003. The arrangement presents an extraordinary approach to the issue of military and political power, with a reversal of meaning, achieved also due to the choice of materials such as rubber.
The exhibition Baj. Figures of the Imagination 1951-2003 was born out of a project from the Contemporary Art Archive at the University of Genoa and the Baj Vergiate Archive and is promoted by the City of Savona and the Cultural Foundation Cento Fiori.
