Enrico Baj

Enrico Baj (Milan, 1924 – Vergiate, 2003) was a multifaceted artist and a key figure in the Italian post-war avant-garde. He founded the Nuclear Art Movement (1951) and the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (1953), opposing the rationalization of art. His work, blending irony and social critique, includes the Generals and Military Parades of the 1960s, The Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli (1972), and Apocalypse (1979). In the 1990s, he created the Tribal Masks and Felts series. Baj collaborated with Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, and international poets, producing numerous artist’s books.