Enrico Baj
[t.a.]Born in Milan in 1924, discovers the European avant-garde in Geneva in 1944. He returned to Milan after the war he attended the Accademia di Brera and graduated in Law. He exhibited works at the first informal staff at the center of San Fedele in 1951 and founded by Sergio Dangelo Nuclear Movement whose first manifesto released at the exhibition at the Apollo Gallery in Brussels in 1952, finding the accession of Fontana, Jorn, Klein, Manzoni , Arnaldo Pomodoro and Giò, Kaisserlian and Dal Fabbro. He exhibited all the exhibitions of the movement until the last, at the Centro San Fedele in 1957. The works have nuclear nuclei with strong colors in fascinating material movements implosive. In 1953, Baj and Asger Jorn, in contrast with the rationalist spirit of the Bauhaus was refounded by Max Bill, founded the International Movement for a Bauhaus Imagine. Beginning from 1954 the 'International Matches ceramics' to Albisola involving, among others, Fontana, Matta, Appel, Scanavino, Dangelo. In the mid-'50s to collaborate magazines' the Gesture 'and' Phases'. Works at the Laboratory of Experimental Alba. Public in 1957, the Manifesto 'Against style' with the Nuclear and Manzoni, Klein, siblings Tomato, Restany, Saura, Sordini, Verga. Exhibited at Gallery One in London. Signed in 1959 the 'Manifeste de Naples'. Since 1960 the exhibition exposes the surrealists. Experience various techniques and materials. 1959-60 are the 'Mountains', carried out with emulsions of synthetic colors and the' Collages' of wood veneers, inlays and painting, working with 'Mirrors', reassembled from fragments and from 1960 to the' General ', works of biting irony made collages to polimaterici (fabrics, objects), derived from the character of 'Patafisica' by Alfred Jarry. In 1962, the exhibition 'The Art of the assemblage' in New York, met Marcel Duchamp. In Paris, close to writers and poets with whom it cooperates to illustration of texts. Breton dedicates one written in 1963 and invited him to join the College Patafisico. Queneau submit it at the Venice Biennale of 1964. Join the XIII Triennale. Performs the 'Ties' plastic in 1967, d'après Picasso and Seurat, fabric and trimmings in 1968 and in 1972 the great collage and acrylic on wood with various materials, dealing with' funeral Pinelli of anarchy '. Since 1978 works on the 'Apocalypse', a work executed in various techniques, a long sixty meters. In the mid-80s working on a grotesque figure with dummies included in landscape architecture. Take the 'Meccano' a vast series of figures. He works for the Paris edition of 'Ubu Roi'. Collaborate with the Corriere della Sera and author of volumes. Care Milanese exhibitions dedicated to 'Patafisica' and Picabia. Numerous exhibitions at private galleries and the large critical literature. Enrico Baj died in Vergiate (Va) June 16 2003.