Paul Neagu
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Paul Neagu (Bucharest, 1938 - London, 2004) was an internationally important British-Romanian artist, working in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance art and watercolor. He died in London and Flowers East have since organised sales of works left in his estate.
His influences include cubism and Marcel Duchamp.
His works can be found in public collections including, among others, the British Museum, London, le Fond départemental d'art contemporain, Seine Saint-Denis, Bobigny, France, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, the Musee Cantonal de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, the National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, the Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA, and the Tate Gallery, London.
"For Paul Neagu, art is an expression of 'desire in the face of the systems that attempt to inhibit it', as he writes, and desire involves 'the recovery' of what he calls, variously, the 'hyphen,' the 'abstract', the 'gamma', all of which involve the 'bodily', conveyed particularly through the 'figural essence of sculpting, paintings, drawings'. Neagu's works, whatever their medium, are certainly full of desire, as their visceral energy suggests." Donald Kuspit
[edit] References
"Nine Catalytic Stations / Noua statiuni catalitice", a study in hylesic symbolism, Editura Anastasia, Romania, 2003, by Matei Stircea-Craciun.
[edit] External links
- Paul Neagu at Sculpture.org.uk
- Remember Paul Neagu Memorial article from the Romainian Cultural Centre.
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