A major exhibition at Palazzo Reale and three exhibition “chapters” hosted by three major Milanese museums, accompanied by a multidisciplinary programme of initiatives across the city: Metafisica/Metafisiche is the project curated by Vincenzo Trione, which brings the masters of Metaphysical art into dialogue with their international “heirs” and with the “followers” of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Milan, the project is produced by Palazzo Reale, Museo del Novecento, Grande Brera–Palazzo Citterio and Gallerie d’Italia, in collaboration with the publishing house Electa, and forms part of the cultural programme of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The exhibition Modernità e malinconia at Palazzo Reale is realised with the scientific collaboration of the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation and the Museo Morandi, with the participation of the Alberto Savinio Archive and the Carlo Carrà Archive.

At Palazzo Reale, more than 400 works are on display, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, design objects, as well as architectural models and maquettes, illustrations, comics, magazines, videos and vinyl records. The exhibition features national and international loans from over 150 public and private institutions, galleries, archives and prestigious private collections.

From the protagonists of the historic group founded in Ferrara in 1917—Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Carlo Carrà, Filippo de Pisis and Giorgio Morandi—to the artists in Europe and America who absorbed the movement’s atmospheres and formal solutions, and on to contemporary echoes in the works of various authors inspired by Metaphysical poetics across the fields of art, photography, architecture, cinema, theatre, design, fashion, literature, graphic novels and music. From Mario Sironi to Felice Casorati, from René Magritte to Max Ernst, from Salvador Dalí to Andy Warhol. And further still, from Mimmo Paladino to Giulio Paolini, from Jannis Kounellis to Francesco Vezzoli, from Aldo Rossi to Gio Ponti, from Paolo Portoghesi to Frank Gehry, from Mimmo Jodice to Gabriele Basilico, from Giorgio Armani to Fendi, from Paolo Sorrentino to Tim Burton, through to David Bowie and many others besides.

“Distant and disparate episodes, which seem to have nothing in common, born of the imagination of artists far removed from one another in generational, cultural and linguistic terms,” explains the curator. “And yet, albeit along secret paths and not always in a fully intentional manner, these voices share a common stance: a distinctive manière de voir, inspired by a lateral, clandestine and perhaps marginal poetic experience, which took shape more than a century ago in a provincial city, situated outside history.”

“From Piazza Duomo to Brera there are two thousand steps of art: the route that begins on 28 January with Metafisica/Metafisiche in the rooms of Palazzo Reale will take in the Museo del Novecento and the Gallerie d’Italia in Piazza della Scala, before concluding at Palazzo Citterio,” states the Councillor for Culture, Tommaso Sacchi. “A sentimental map at the heart of Milan, connecting physical spaces and works of art, and evoking an idea of the city as a diffuse museum, one that can also be explored on foot and is capable of bringing past and present, great masters and contemporary perspectives into dialogue. An ambitious and collective project that restores Metaphysical art to its generative force and invites citizens and visitors alike to rediscover Milan as a place of thought, imagination and vision.”

At the Museo del Novecento, within the Ettore and Claudia Gian Ferrari Archives, a section is devoted to an indepth exploration of the relationship between Metaphysical art and Milan. It examines the in some respects surprising bond between certain protagonists of the group led by de Chirico and the city itself—an artistic and intellectual crossroads, but also a laboratory for experimentation and dialogue between the arts.

Within the exhibition space, visitors encounter a selection of drawings, maquettes, costumes, archival materials and photographs, bearing witness to the activity of de Chirico, Savinio and Carrà in the Lombard capital and to their collaboration with some of the city’s most important artistic and cultural institutions. Particular emphasis is placed on set and costume designs produced by the artists between the 1940s and 1950s for Teatro alla Scala, as well as period photographs and preparatory drawings for Bagni Misteriosi, created for the Triennale di Milano.

A further focus is dedicated to Ascolto il tuo cuore, città (1944) by Alberto Savinio, a work that encapsulates “all the ‘carnal’ love that a man can feel for a city”. This documentary novel is the subject of a series of ten plates by Mimmo Paladino, entitled Disegni per Savinio, in which the artist extracts situations and atmospheres to compose the sequences of a kind of involuntary drawn film with a neo-realist imprint, governed by a finely calibrated interplay between fidelity and infidelity, between fragments of writing and visions.

At the Gallerie d’Italia – Milano, the Intesa Sanpaolo museum in Piazza Scala, in dialogue with the works housed in the vaults, a tribute to Morandi is presented through the photographs by Gianni Berengo Gardin dedicated to the painter’s Bolognese studio.

At Palazzo Citterio, the Grande Brera hosts an unprecedented homage by William Kentridge, likewise dedicated to Giorgio Morandi. Kentridge’s intervention unfolds in two parts: a sound video installation and a sequence of cardboard sculptures, which poetically reinterpret everyday objects—the protagonists of Morandi’s still lifes. This approach establishes an ideal dialogue with the Metaphysical works by the Bolognese master preserved at Palazzo Citterio. In keeping with the curatorial framework of Metafisica/Metafisiche, Kentridge’s installation highlights Morandi’s formal and conceptual legacy and revisits an expressive practice in which time, memory and rhythm become visual matter.

The unified catalogue for the exhibitions is published by Electa.

On the occasion of Metafisica/Metafisiche. Modernità e malinconia, Electa, in collaboration with the National Museum of Photography – MUNAF, presents Racconti della metafisica, a programme of cultural events for visitors to the exhibition at Palazzo Reale, running from February to June 2026. A series of special tours and conversations will bring different disciplines and perspectives into dialogue, offering the public new insights into the resonances of Metaphysical art in the present.

List of venues

Metafisica/Metafisiche. Modernità e malinconia
Palazzo Reale
28 January – 21 June 2026

Milano Metafisica
Museo del Novecento
28 January – 21 June 2026

Gianni Berengo Gardin.
Lo studio di Giorgio Morandi
Gallerie d’Italia – Milano
28 January – 6 April 2026

William Kentridge.
More Sweetly Play the Dance and
Rememebering Morandi
Grande Brera-Palazzo Citterio
6 February – 5 April 2026

From September 23, 2025 to January 11, 2026, the halls of Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the exhibition “Appiani. Neoclassicism in Milan”, an international project dedicated to Andrea Appiani (Milan, 1754 – 1817), a leading figure of Milanese Neoclassicism and “First Painter” of Napoleonic Italy.

Curated by Francesco Leone, Fernando Mazzocca and Domenico Piraina, the exhibition brings together over 100 works from major international institutions – including the Louvre, the Grand Palais, and the Châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau – as well as from prestigious Italian collections such as the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, and Villa Carlotta.

A tribute to a protagonist of Neoclassical Milan

The exhibition offers a broad and in-depth look at Appiani’s artistic production, which, with refinement and expressive power, narrates the political and cultural trajectory of an entire era.

Known as the “Painter of the Graces,” Appiani immortalized key figures of cultural and political life – from Napoleon Bonaparte to Joséphine de Beauharnais, from Giuseppe Parini to Ugo Foscolo – portraying Milan as a vibrant city at the heart of the European dialogue between the Enlightenment and the Empire.

An international collaboration

The initiative, promoted by the Municipality of Milan – Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale, Civita Mostre e Musei, Electa and MondoMostre with the support of Fondazione Bracco and Biofer Spa, is part of the Milano Cortina 2026 Cultural Olympiad, reaffirming Milan’s role as an international capital of culture and innovation.

Visitor information

📍 Appiani. Neoclassicism in Milan
📅 September 23, 2025 – January 11, 2026
📌 Palazzo Reale, Milan
📔 The official exhibition catalogue, featuring essays and in-depth studies, is published by Electa.

2025: a year of new narratives to enrich and celebrate the history of Electa, an art book publisher, exhibition organiser and creator of cultural projects. A year of initiatives that interrogate knowledge beyond the boundaries of the visual arts, reflecting a more contemporary vision and suggesting new ways of reading and ‘looking’.

Projects, encounters, readings, stories: from archaeology to contemporary art, design to architecture and photography to literary criticism, which aspire to question the ‘political’ role of bearing witness to art, exploring every possible intersection, contamination and contradiction between image and word.

‘Pesci d’oro: in bookshops in May, preview at Turin International Book Fair

To commemorate its birthday, a celebratory edition of the iconic series of illustrated short essays, ‘Pesci rossi‘, will be in bookshops. These books recall the approach and writing technique of the eponymous collection (1920) by critic Emilio Cecchi.

Three new titles that fit in and stand out within the series for the gold colour of the cover, an echo of the most illustrious tradition of art books and for the dialogue they establish between legacy and future. Their intention is retracing the roots of the publishing house and suggesting directions for its development.

The first two books will be released on 27th May and available for preview at the Turin International Book Fair

• Michele Dantini, Bernard Berenson e l’arte contemporanea Storia, critica, editoria (Bernard Berenson and Contemporary Art History, Criticism, Publishing) investigates the American historian’s militant interests in contemporary art, which are less well known, forgotten or deliberately removed from criticism after his death. What emerges is a new and convincing ‘portrait’ that reinstates Berenson in his rightful place within Italian and European culture of the first half of the 20th century.
• Antonella Anedda, La vita dei dettagli (The life of details) is now available in a new edition enriched with a valuable appendix by the author and an afterword by Andrea Cortellessa. A title that questions the powerful fascination of details in works of art. A silent collector of details, a patient worshipper of paintings, Anedda explores the meaning of art and the enigma of its fruition.

To be released in September

• Carlo Vinti, Stefano Faoro, Electa publisher 2025. Dal 1945 ottanta anni di cultura visiva (Since 1945, eighty years of visual culture) has been dedicated to publishing and exhibition projects which, according to the authors who selected them, would over the years influence the development of editorial graphics in Italy. A richly illustrated excursus from the post-war printing tradition, through modern visual culture, graphic design and photography to the research of the new millennium and Electa’s identity today.

In 2025, Electa publishes also the catalogue of the 24th International Triennale Milano Exhibition, for which it manages and curates the bookshop and publishes the catalogue (in 3 volumes) of the Italian Pavillion at the 19th edition of the International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, whose bookshops it also continues to curate.

A bridge between image and word, new paths (editorial and design)

As Rosanna Cappelli, managing director of the publishing house since 2020, recounts, ‘Electa, on the threshold of eighty years, felt the need for a publishing ‘gap’ and to get closer to the contemporary audience.

Inspired by the great literature of the 20th century, the crossing of genres, the hybridisation of knowledge and expertise, several of today’s projects (from the new series A-Z, Oilà and Scritti to palimpsests such as Esistere come donna) are based on a method that investigates the possible intersections, contaminations and contradictions between image and word.”

The creativity of the poster and logo for Electa’s birthday is by Studio Sonnoli, which has been responsible for the publisher’s visual identity for several years. It is their graphic design work on the most recent and cross-genre series such as the eccentric monographs A-Z, the feminist biographies Oilà and the newly launched art criticism series Scritti. For the latter series, the Marco Vallora volume will be in bookshops on 27 May, but available as a preview at the Turin International Book Fair. Scritti. Come se la parola dipingesse [Writings. As if the word painted], edited by Giorgio Agamben, Marcello Barison, Monica Ferrando, and with an unpublished recollection by Nicola Lagioia.

THE STORY:
A legacy that looks to the future

The name ‘Electa’ was registered in 1927, but the publishing house under this name began its publications in 1945, in Florence, in the fervour, including editorial fervour, that marked Liberation throughout Italy, with the reconstruction and re-foundation of its principles.

The art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) inspired the editorial lines, giving shape and consistency to a catalogue from the very beginning, along with the influence of the environment of Villa I Tatti where he lived for most of his life.

In 1952, Electa moved to Milan, where it became a leading publisher in the study and dissemination of art, as well as its protection through knowledge, photographic documentation and criticism. Over the decades, it has built an unrivalled tradition on the Italian and European scene for rigour and continuity of research aimed at documenting cultural heritage, in all its forms.

From archaeology to contemporary art, from design to architecture, from photography to literary criticism/authorship, Electa has published magazines, essays, scientific volumes, monographs, guides and tools for visiting Italy’s art sites.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, it has been collaborating operationally with public museums, institutions and private foundations in organising exhibitions that are documented in its own catalogues.

More recently, it has started to offer itself to the same realities as a partner for the design of festivals and cultural programmes for the public, in particular through Fondamenta, the Foundation for Arts and Culture, established in 2024 from Electa’s experience and history, to design cultural participation activities and experiment with new forms of communication.

Electa editore manages and ‘curates’ bookshops at:
Mantua, Ducal Palace,
Milan Triennale
Naples, National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Rome, Colosseum Archaeological Park
Venice, Venice Biennale

The Electa publishing house is proposing a new project for the Electaphoto monograph series dedicated to leading contemporary photographers. Alongside the most famous names, there is also a series of little-known photographers, brought to light by careful studies with the aim of telling a ‘cultural’ story about photography in the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

The books, designed to be read and looked at, interweave text and images in a dialogue between languages, offering a new perspective on the photographers’ works and lives.

Mario Dondero (1928-2015)

Archaeologist, art historian and series editor Nunzio Giustozzi, together with Laura Strappa, curator and expert in photography and visual culture, will be the editors of the volume dedicated to internationally renowned Italian photojournalist Mario Dondero.

His monograph, divided into four sections, is distinguished by contributions from the most authoritative voices in journalism and culture, accompanied by a careful and extensive selection of photographs chosen by Dondero himself. This volume is the first comprehensive catalogue of his extraordinary work, organised chronologically and geographically to offer a visual narrative of the political, cultural and social events that shaped the ‘long’ century, chronicled through his lens.

Martha Rocher (1920-1990)

For the first time, Elisa Genovesi, an Italian researcher, and Raffaella Perna, a contemporary art historian and lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome, will present the work of photographer and artist Martha Rocher, who interpreted the artistic and cultural panorama of 1950s Paris and 1960s Milan.

The selection of more than 250 black-and-white photographs, chosen from more than 1,600 prints kept in her private archive, depict the work and ateliers of the major exponents of the Avant-garde movements, including Yves Klein, Sonia Terk Dalaunay, Meret Oppenheim, and many others, offering an overview of the artistic climate of those years.

Giovanni Chiaramonte (1948-2023)

This series will also include the first major monograph on Giovanni Chiaramonte, the Italian photographer known for his philosophical approach, by internationally renowned Italian art historian Arturo Carlo Quintavalle in collaboration with the artist’s archives.

More than 400 selected photographs, some of his texts and an essay by Paolo Barbaro on Chiaramonte’s photographic focus on architecture have been organically arranged to make this volume complete and unique, testifying to one of the finest and most extraordinary perspectives in contemporary photography.

The exhibition “Impression, Morisot” is the first major exhibition in Italy dedicated to Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) held at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa from 12 October 2024 to 23 February 2025.

Press Preview Thursday 10 October 2024 at 11.30 am. The exhibition is part of the calendar of official celebrations to mark the 150 th anniversary of Impressionism, included in the commemorative season initiated by the Museo d’Orsay in Paris, organised in collaboration with the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice and with unpublished works from the heirs of Berthe Morisot.

The exhibition is a project by the Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura and Electa, who is also a publisher of the catalogue, supported by the Liguria Region and Genoa City Council, with the patronage of the French Embassy, and is curated by Marianne Mathieu, one of the most renowned experts on Berthe Morisot’s work and a scholar of the history of Impressionism, and protagonist of many scientific discoveries in this field.

More than 80 works, including paintings, etchings, watercolours and pastels, plus photographic and archive documents, many of which have never been seen before, provide an insight into the life of the artist, who managed to reconcile family life and an artistic career, and entertained fruitful relations not only with the greatest artists of the time such as Renoir, Monet, Manet and Degas, but also with intellectual figures such as Mallarmé and Zola. The exhibition features scientific innovations related to her stays on the Riviera between 1881-1882 and 1888-1889 and the influence of the Mediterranean light on her work.

Milan celebrates Enrico Baj (Milan, 31 October 1924 – Vergiate, 16 June 2003), one of the masters of the Italian and international neo-avant-garde, with a large retrospective as one of the protagonists of the autumn exhibitions, designed to revisit all the themes and subjects of his long and multifaceted career. Baj returns to Palazzo Reale in the Sala delle Cariatidi, exactly one hundred years after his birth and twelve years after the exhibition I Funerali dell’anarchico Pinelli, in the same room, and which, for the first time, will be integrated into an anthological itinerary and in close dialogue with other works by the master.

Promoted by the Comune di Milano-Cultura and produced by Palazzo Reale with Electa, the project is curated by Chiara Gatti and Roberta Cerini Baj and features almost fifty works spanning a time period from the early 1950s to the dawn of the 2000s, covering the artist’s phases of research and involvement with different movements over time: from the recovery of the Dada movement and Surrealism to the modes of Informal art, from the proximity to the Nordic CoBrA group to the genesis of the Nuclear art movement, which Baj founded in Milan with Sergio Dangelo in 1951. Starting from the gestural abstraction of his beginnings, passing through the birth of his larval anthropomorphic figures and the eruption of the liquefied mountains in the magmatic body of the Generals, the exhibition will touch on the parody of extraterrestrial invasions to arrive at the Meccano army and the animated world of chests of drawers and trumeaus.

His characters, which have entered popular imagination, Dames and Generals, Ultrabodies, Mirrors, Furniture and the monsters of the Apocalypse will animate a carousel of creatures from the surrealist and sci-fi universe of an artist who used irony and the grotesque as a tool to dismantle bourgeois conformism and take a stand against all forms of established power.

His famous aesthetics of trinkets and trimmings, of tassels and shiny buttons like insignia on the truncated chests of his emblazoned soldiers, will be the thread that will stitch together, in sections, the enormous themes of Baj’s poetics, freed from a rigid chronological sequence or genre, with continuous cross-references between art and literature, colours and words, following a sort of script that will suggest a theatrical time and space to the spectator, given even the setting.

It was announced today that the Prix Versailles selection committee has included the two Electa bookshops in the Colosseum on its 2024 List of the World’s Most Beautiful Emporiums.

The Prix Versailles, a world prize for architecture and design, awards contemporary achievements that make an exceptional mark on everyday life. The selection criteria include innovation, creativity, the local heritage and eco-sustainability.

Following this initial selection, the Electa bookshops in the Colosseum will compete for one of three 2024 World Titles (Prix Versailles, Mention Intérieur, Mention Extérieur), which will be announced on 2 December at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

The refurbishment of the Colosseum bookshop in May 2022 is part of an overall plan to modernise the network of four bookshops run by Electa in the Colosseum Archaeological Park. The project covered both the furnishings and graphics as well as the product selection: publishing and merchandising with dual copyrights — Electa and the Colosseum Archaeological Park — to provide the public with tools for orientation and understanding, as well as souvenirs marked by graphical care, quality materials and eco-sustainability of the raw materials and production chain.

The design of the bookshops in the Colosseum Archaeological Park was entrusted to Studio Migliore+Servetto, who developed a new format with Electa.

The different areas of intervention are united by a lightweight design for the furnishings, a selection of very light tones and the transparency of specifically designed micro-perforated sheets. These unifying elements are varied in each bookshop with specific colours (red, yellow) and differing graphics designed by Leonardo Sonnoli Irene Bacchi Studio Sonnoli.

Bookcases are used as an effective display system: they are flexible, capable of accommodating the different room sizes and their specific commercial requirements, and they highlight the richness of the contents and different types of merchandise.

The spaces are conceived as a contemporary Wunderkammer. A repeating module is the ‘frame’, which symbolically works around the merchandise on display. Visitors are surrounded by designer objects, articles bearing the Park brand name, books and products that, through the rhythm of the display and the graphic apparatus denoting the spaces, compose a narrative that arouses curiosity and a desire to learn about the monument and its history.

Reading is a journey that leads us to discover new worlds, different cultures and, most importantly, ourselves. What better time to indulge in this practice than during the summer?

Why is summer reading so special?

With its long days and more relaxed pace, summer offers the ideal time and attitude for reading. Without the hustle and bustle of everyday life, we can finally indulge in the pleasure of leafing through a book, letting ourselves be captivated by the stories and losing ourselves in the words. Reading during the summer helps us expand our horizons, stimulating our imagination, keeping our minds exercised and reducing stress.

Here are our recommendations for holiday reading

Whatever your destination, we thought we’d offer you a collection of books selected from the most read and appreciated titles of our publishing houses (Battello a vapore, De Agostini, Einaudi, Electa, Mondadori, Mondadori Electa, Mondadori Children’s Books, Piemme, Rizzoli and Sperling & Kupfer, Star Comics and Utet), designed to satisfy readers of all ages.

Today, Alice Cairati takes up the position of Communications and Promotion Manager of the Piemme, Sperling & Kupfer and Electa publishing houses, reporting directly to General Manager Stefano Peccatori.

Born in Milan in 1984, she graduated from the University of Milan with honours in Philosophical Sciences. Cairati began her professional career with the Mondadori Group 13 years ago, at the Mondadori Electa publishing house. After three years of experience in marketing, she shifted to communications and events in 2014, before becoming Communications Manager for the Varia line of Mondadori Electa, Sperling & Kupfer, Piemme in 2019.

The new communications structure entrusted to Alice Cairati was designed to develop integrated communication plans, in which the press office, digital communications and promotion are coordinated strategically and effectively. In this respect, Cetta Leonardi is head of the Radio and TV Press and Promotion Office, Alessandro Ventura is head of the Digital Communications and Promotion Office, while Cairati remains responsible for the Events Office.

Milan is celebrating Enrico Baj (Milan, 31 October 1924 – Vergiate, 16 June 2003), a master of the Italian and international neo-avant-garde, with an extensive retrospective that will stand out among exhibitions this autumn, as it is designed to cover all the topics and subjects of his long and multifaceted experience.

Baj returns to Sala delle Cariatidi in Palazzo Reale exactly a hundred years after his birth and twelve years after the exhibition I Funerali dell’anarchico Pinelli (The Funerals of the Anarchist Pinelli) was held in the same room. For the first time, this exhibition will be integrated in an anthological itinerary and a timely dialogue with other works by the master.

Promoted by the Municipality of Milan – Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale with Electa, the project is curated by Chiara Gatti and Roberta Cerini Baj and includes nearly fifty works distilled in a time span ranging from the early 1950s to the dawn of 2000. It crosses the artist’s research phases and his adherence to different movements over time: from the revival of Dadaism and Surrealism to the modes of Informal art, from his closeness to the Nordic CoBrA to the genesis of the Nuclear art movement, which Baj founded in Milan with Sergio Dangelo in 1951. Starting from the gestural abstraction of his beginnings, passing through the birth of his larval anthropomorphic figures and the eruption of the liquefied mountains in the magmatic body of the Generals, the exhibition touches on the parody of extraterrestrial invasions, reaching the Meccano army and the animated world of chests of drawers and trumeaux.

His characters that have become part of the common imagination — the Ladies and Generals, the Ultrabodies, the Mirrors, the Furniture and the Monsters of the Apocalypse — will animate a flurry of creatures from the surrealist and sci-fi universe of an artist who made irony and the grotesque a picklock for dismantling bourgeois conformism and taking sides against all forms of consolidated power.

His celebrated aesthetics of trinkets and trimmings, tassels and shiny buttons like insignia on the truncated chests of his emblazoned soldiers, is a thread that stitches together sections of the broadest themes of Baj’s poetics, freed from a rigid chronological sequence or genre classification, with continuous cross-references between art and literature, colours and words, following a sort of script that, also in the setting, suggests a theatrical time and space for observers.

From 16 July to 13 September 2024, in anticipation of the major retrospective at Palazzo Reale, the Museum of Natural History on Corso Venezia will also host a tribute dedicated to by the artist’s engravings and books, in which Enrico Baj classified the natural world with irony and imagination. Under the title Enrico Baj. Zoologia fantastica e altre nature (Fantastic Zoology and Other Natures) will feature 22 panels divided among the Manuale di zoologia fantastica (Manual of Fantastic Zoology), Paradiso perduto (Paradise Lost), the folder I Fiori (The Flowers, with its visionary botany), as well as etchings from the famous De Rerum Natura of 1958, a homage (reinvented) to Lucretius’ Latin poem.

BAJ. BajchezBaj is also in Savona and Albissola Marina.
The unique catalogue published by Electa

To mark the centenary of the Milanese artist’s birth, an exhibition curated by Luca Bochicchio and dedicated to Baj’s ceramic work in all its historical and chronological development opens on 8 October. Entitled BAJ. Baj chez Baj will open at the Ceramics Museum in Savona, with a section also at MuDA – Museo Diffuso Albisola in Albissola Marina, in the exhibition centre and Casa Museo Jorn. The scientific collaboration between Milan and Savona, among curators and institutions, aims to outline two independent yet complementary itineraries paying homage to Baj’s eclectic genius. This is documented in the single catalogue published by Electa, in which the two exhibition itineraries unravel between places, forms, materials and encounters, tracing Baj’s fascinating cosmogony, an epiphany of intelligence and creativity.

Baj will also become a topic in Electa’s A-Z series, an array of monographic titles on eclectic 20th-century figures.