Milan celebrates Enrico Baj (Milan, October 31, 1924 - Vergiate, June 16, 2003), one of the masters of Italian and international neo-avant-garde, with a comprehensive retrospective as the protagonist of the autumn exhibitions, designed to retrace all the themes and subjects of his long and multifaceted experience.

Baj returns to Palazzo Reale in the Hall of the Caryatids, on the exact centenary of his birth and twelve years after the exhibition, in the same hall, of The Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli, which for the first time will be integrated into an anthological path and a punctual 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 features almost fifty works distilled over a period that from the early fifties reaches the dawn of the year 2000, crossing the phases of the artist's research and adherence to different movements over time. His characters, who have entered the common imagination, the Ladies and the Generals, the Ultrabodies, the Mirrors, the Furniture, and the monsters of the Apocalypse will animate a carousel of creatures born from the surrealist and at the same time science fiction universe of an author who has made irony and grotesque a lever to dismantle bourgeois conformism and to stand against every form of established power.