The General, from the folder "The Visit" by Roberto Sanesi
1994
Size
20 x 13.78 in
Year
1994
Medium
Drawings
Reference
e6e054e7
Silkscreen artwork belonging to the artist's book written by Roberto Sanesi and entitled "La Visita".
The serigraph represents one of the most classic generals of Enrico Baj with golden inserts.
The colophon of the book describes the edition to which the work belongs:
"Seventh work of the Serendip Collection curated by Massimo Scrignoli was conceived and realized (with the air of Venice) in the Serigrafia d'arte of Maestro Claudio Barbato in Spinea".
The work is numbered 81/99 in the lower left-hand corner and is hand-signed by the artist in the lower right-hand corner.
The book also bears the autograph signatures of both Baj and Sanesi on the final page.
1924 Milano, Italy
Enrico Baj (1924-2003) was an Italian painter and sculptor. So active in intellectual and political Italian life, his works are the depiction of an ironic, sarcastic an often grotesque critic to the social and civil context in Italy.
He is a representative of the Italian Artistic Avantgarde, he found in 1952 the Movement of the Nuclear Painting and in 1954 the Mouvement International pour une Bauhaus Imaginiste. He often uses collage to realize his works, different materials and the most famous subjects are Generals and Military parades.
He is strongly influenced by contemporary reality, from '70s his criticism increases and in '70s his creations are contaminated by kitsch, the one and only style able to represent the decadence of the contemporary culture, according to Baj's thought).
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