Enrico Baj
Subtitle: play as protest
By: [editors, Hilde de Bruijn, Carrie Pilto ; authors, Luca Bochicchio, Maurizio Cattelan, Carrie Pilto]
Contributors: Bruijn, Hilde de; Pilto, Carrie; Bochicchio, Luca; Cattelan, Maurizio, 1960-; Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands)
Publisher: Cobra Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Amstelveen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9789075485219
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Play as protest
Description: Enrico Baj's works look playful, colourful and humorous, but simultaneously show his sharp socio-critical, even anarchist, attitude. Baj himself stated that "only fun can validly oppose the system". Baj used play as a form of engagement and creation as a form of protest. His work was a protest against fascism, totalitarian systems, the power of the ruling class and the potential annihilation of the environment (the then new nuclear threat). The exhibition shows how Baj playfully used the strategies of satire and deliberate disrespect as means of protest against a society that seems to be on the constant verge of self-destruction. Exhibition: Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands (04.02.-14.05.2017).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, February 4-May 14, 2017.

Limited ed. of 500 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.