{"id":792,"date":"2022-11-05T12:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulneagu.com\/instal\/?page_id=792"},"modified":"2023-02-25T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T16:26:18","slug":"about-paul-neagu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulneagu.com\/instal\/?page_id=792","title":{"rendered":"Paul Neagu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSculpture should be appreciated by all five senses.\u201d
\n<\/span>
\nPaul Neagu<\/strong> (b. 1938 Bucharest\/Romania \u2013 d. 2004 London\/UK) was a British-Romanian sculptor, painter, performance artist, teacher and poet.<\/p>\n

He made a crucial contribution to the development of conceptual art in Britain and, after 1990, in Romania as well. As a teacher, he had a great impact on those who later became\u00a0some of Britain\u2019s leading sculptors, including Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley or Anish Kapoor.<\/p>\n

Paul Neagu grew up in Timi\u0219oara, Romania, and he graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1963. In 1969, Neagu travelled to the UK for the very first time, after an invitation to Edinburgh from gallerist\u00a0and impresario\u00a0Richard Demarco. In spring 1970 the artist left Romania, travelling to Paris and Edinburgh and then London, which he made his home for the next thirty-four years, exhibiting widely and teaching at art schools. In 1972 he founded the Generative Art Group, which consisted of himself plus four other fictitious members, each representing different parts of his psyche: poet, philosopher, painter, designer.<\/p>\n

The artist\u2019s diverse artistic practices ranged from performance, body art and installation, to sculpture<\/a><\/span>, drawing<\/a><\/span>, painting<\/a><\/span>, printmaking and poetry.\u00a0Anthropocosmos<\/span>,\u00a0<\/i>his Catalytic Stations<\/span>,\u00a0<\/i>of which\u00a0the\u00a0Hyphen<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>the most complex,<\/i> the performances\u00a0Blind Bite<\/i>,\u00a0Horizontal Rain<\/i>,\u00a0Going\u00a0<\/i>Tornado<\/i><\/span>\u00a0are some of his most well\u00a0known central topics.<\/p>\n

Paul Neagu\u2019s work has been exhibited at the Paris Biennale,\u00a0the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; at\u00a0Modern Art Oxford, the Whitechapel, the Hayward\u00a0and\u00a0the Serpentine Galleries, the Institute for Contemporary Art\u00a0and the Tate\u00a0in London;\u00a0at\u00a0the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds,\u00a0Gallery K in Tokyo and Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, among many international venues.<\/p>\n

His works can be found in many public collections amongst which are The Arts Council Collection (London), The Henry Moore Foundation (Leeds). The National Museum of Art (Bucharest), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), The Tate\u00a0(London), The Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Kontakt Collection (Vienna) and Art Collection\u00a0Telekom (Bonn).<\/p>\n


\nPaul Neagu was a truly universal artist, a sophisticated intellectual and the creator of a unique artistic vocabulary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibitions<\/strong> (selection):<\/h4>\n

SOLO<\/span><\/p>\n

2021
\nPaul Neagu, Trieste Contemporanea (details<\/span><\/a>)
\nPaul Neagu – The Retrospective, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (details<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

2022
\nPaul Neagu – The Retrospective, BRUSEUM, Neue Gallerie Graz (details)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2023
\nPaul Neagu. A Retrospective, The National Museum of Art Timi\u0219oara (details<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

GROUP<\/span><\/p>\n

Performers and Participants, Tate Modern (details)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ART FAIRS<\/span><\/p>\n

2022
\nIndependent Art Fair, New York (details)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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