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Detailed Biography |
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| Year |
Significant Events - Study - Research
- Works |
Interests - Influences - Encounters |
Travel |
Exhibitions - Performances - Conferences
- Publications |
| 1938 |
Born in Bucharest as the second son of
the six children of Tudor and Rosalia Neagu: Eduard, Paul, Anton,
Doina, Rodica, Teodora |
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| The 40's and 50's |
| 1947-56 |
Post-war poverty. Stalinism,Russian
presence, High school with Russian language study, Average school
archivement |
Motors, radios, chemistry, secret
articles, religious curious, yoga, paranormal; sport, target
shooting, riding, swimming, cycling |
Timis, Birzava, Black Sea |
Black Sea Rock-performance photographs
(1954) |
| 1956-59 |
Baccalaureate, Railway employment:
clerical, surveying cartography, evening art classes. Evening
technical drawing classes, draftsman, Electrician, Timisoara,
Philosophy study for university entrance. Admission exams for
several faculties: philology, engineering, physical education,
philosophy. |
Prof. Julius Podlipny, Roman Cotosman,
Radovan Ciprian. Diter Syler |
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Holding the Sea (1959) |
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| The 60's |
| 1960-63 |
Admitted to Beaux Arts Academy (later
Nicolae Grigorescu Art Institute), Bucharest. Student in Painting
Department. Clandestine attempts at modern abstract art. Cubism
and Kineticism. |
Introduced to history of cinema
and quality film-making; Italian Neo-realism. Cahiers du cinéma.
Prof.O.Angheluta. Influenced by Klee, Manzoni, Yves Klein. |
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| 1964-65 |
Final Year painting student. Diploma
work Gaina Mountain Fair (series of variations continued after
1965) |
Read:Camus, Proust, Joyce, Perse,
Michaud |
Field work for Diploma in the Oash
and Gaina Mountains |
Graduation show - Academy for Beaux
Arts, Bucharest |
| 1966-67 |
Re-worked A Mountain for Every Man.
Defined some geometric forms. First model for monumental structures
inspired by the folklore and diploma field-work; The Llight
Mills and Cardinal. Married Sibyla Oancea, actress, Birlad Theatre |
Met: Christian Simionescu - poet.
Studied structuralism, Gestalt, Total Theatre, Grotovsky 'Cruelty
Theatre'. Learned about Duchamp, alchemy, Claude Lévy-Strauss |
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Spring - tapestry,3x5m commissioned
by Communist Youth Union for House of Culture, Bucharest |
| 1968 |
Major Altar or Big Metronome. Sandglass
and Light Mill, Models with objects, tactile structures, quasi
-geometrical paintings and drawings |
Multimedia, Paul Klee, Kineticism
in art; the Parisian group Recherche visuelle,Magazinesm Ballet
in kinetic scenery. Mahler. G.Charbonnier - journalist who interviewed
Duchamp |
East Germany, Czechoslowakia - Soviet
occupied Prague |
First piece of poetry. Neagu's box,
video film by Comis Laurian |
| 1969 |
35+ tactile/palpable objects with
open/shut doors in various materials. Eclecticism, pluralism,materials
- searches using the tradition of perfomance and ritual. Following
Bauzentrum Group Exhibition in Hamburg - with Peter Iacobi,
Ritzi Iacobi and Bitzan - invited to Demarco Galery, Edinburgh,
Scotland.Palpable Art Manifesto - Edinburgh. Developed idea
of Anthropocosmos - human forms composed from geometric cells
using complex technical processes. Combined craft and mechanical
methods. Research and Exhibiton' prize awarded by Union of Visual
Artists, vetoed by communist authorities |
Nicolae Serban, Adrian Maftei, Iulian
Mereuta, Nicolae Margineanu. Robert Kennedy, art critic and
V&A Museum librarian, London: Gilbert and George, Fred Stiven,
London galleries, Victoria & Albert, Tate and National.
Real Life Kinetic Art: Yves Klein and Manzoni. Ipoustéguy,
The Louvre, Dodecaphonism;music - Alban Berg, Schönberg,
Stockhausen, Boulez. Electronic music. Edgar Varese. The Temple
in Man, R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz (Secret of Ancient Egypt) |
Hamburg, Berlin, Scotland, London,
Paris. Returned to Romania after 9 months tour |
First one-man exhibition, Amphora
Gallery, Bucharest. Mixed media objects shown at John Moore
Biennam, Liverpool. February - Hamburg,March-Edinburgh, September
- Passau, Palpable and Tactile Art:One Man show, Dremarco Gallery,
Edinburgh. Frist articles published in Romania |
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| The 70's |
| 1970 |
Research into respresentation and
deconstruction. In spring, left Romania. Emigration to France,
then to Scotland. Egyptian Picnic: domestic objects/mummified
tactiles. New objects made in Scotland, then in London with
Sigi Krauss Workshop Gallery. Experiments with ceramics in Paris.
Permanent move to London. |
Frank Malina of Leonardo Magazine.
Professor C.H. Waddington, biologist. Pergamon, Egyptian Section,
Berlin Museum. Shamanism - Joseph Beuys.Rudolf Steiner method;
esotericism, religion |
Edinburgh, Dundee |
Drawings shown at American Centre,
Paris. Group exhibition Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh Festival.
Application for project related to Lord Melville statue, Edinburgh,
rejected. Two Exhibitions - Sigi Krauss Gallery: 'Spectrum'
at Alexandra Palace |
| 1971 |
Associated with the Sigi Krauss
Gallery, London. Exhibitions, installations and performances.Period
of increased personal and artistic confidence. Objects made
from multiple materials.Preoccupiedwith box constructed human
forms. Developed Anthropocosmos |
David Medala, Philipine friend of
Duchamp. Stuart Brisley. Marc Chaimovic. Jimmy Hains. Mircea
Eliade. Radu Lupu, pianist. |
Cardiff, West and East coasts of
Scotland |
Horizontal Rain - happening, Grayfriars
Cemetry. Cake Man performance, London. Horizontal Rain - new
version. Wafers & chocolate performance - smell, taste,
ingestion -Sigi Krauss Gallery. Exhibition of engravings, Edinburgh
Festival. Exhibition with Horia Bernea, Compass Gallery, Glasgow.
Guest of Honour at 'Parc Floral' Youth Biennale , France. Horizontal
Rain and Blind Bite, Sigi Krauss and Compass Galleries. |
| 1972 |
Generative Art Group' (GAG) secretly
established with fictiousmembers: Philip Honeysuckle, Husney
Belmood, Anton Paidola, Edward Larsocchi, Paul Neagu. Enamel
painting (GAG). Drawings on cloth. Flexibility and fluctuations.
Dialogue in exhibitions and presentations. |
Duke Ellington and Miles Davis concert.
Jacques Monod, microbiologist. Read: Emil Cioran, René
Guénon, Naom Chomsky, P. Ouspensky, Gurdjief, A. Watts,
A. Koesler, E. Schmacher, F. Capra, G. Kubler, G. Durand. Buddhism,
Tantraa, Tao, Te Chi. Tarkovsky films. St. Paul foundation,
Venice: Miró, Giacometti, Arp, jade objects, Kansu. Chinese
royal costume. American students - Demarco Summer School, Scotland. |
Venice. Belfast, N. Ireland. Paris.Vaucluse.
Nice |
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. Generative
Art Forms, conference, Queens University, Belfast. First GAG
pamphlet published, London. One - man show, Rivolta Gallery,
Lusanne. The Wafer Machine - GAG demonstration, MoMA Oxfold.
Quiet performance, Louvre, Paris. Timeis Blind (later called
The Fishnet) - spontaneous performance on Inchcolm Island, Scotland |
| 1973 |
First contact as Associated Lecturer,
Hornsey College of Art. Anthropocosmos, copper engravings. Ceramic
works. |
Concerts. Rady Shankar's music.
John Cage. Philip Glass. Saul Steinberg. Read Gurdjieff, in
John G.Bennet's Making of the New World. Mathila Ghyka. Lecture
by K. Stockhausen, ICA, London |
Southern France (Michael Karoly
Foundation) |
Tactile and Palpable Objects, exhibition
- installation, Serpentine Gallery, London. Group ceramics workshop:
Images of the Earth. Exhibition tours to Italy and Whitechapel
Gallery, London |
| 1974 |
First draft of the Table with curved
legs. Performance: Going Tornado. The Metronome. Tao Te Chi
as dance, dervishes, devided man and reogranisaed man. Anthropocosmos
as a whirlpool. The movementof 'boxes'. The idea of 'hyphen'
as a subject generator. Drawings. Dynamic rituals. Gradually
Going Tornado |
Basie and Miles Davis. BurundiTribal
music, Edgar Varese, Buckminster Fuller, Joseph Beuys - public
dialogue. John Lilly. British Museum: ancient world collections |
Edinburgh, Aberdeen |
Going Tornado, Poor House and Forest
Hill Gallery. Edinburgh Festival, Demarco Gallery, with Buckminster
Fuller and Joseph Beuys. Going Tornado or the Ritual of the
Spiral, Grampian TV, Scotland. GAG at John Moores Biennale,
Liverpool.One - man show by Philip Honeysuckle, GAG, Compass
Gallery, Glasgow; Traverse Gallery, Edingurgh; Saltire Society,
Scotland. Performance with four assistants, Arnolfini Gallery
- to be resumed in Bristol, 1976. |
| 1975-76 |
Progressed Man-Cosmos/Anthropocosmos
ideas. Map painting with pulsating centres. Going Tornado, 3D
installation with public participation; Mutants with scores
of tactile objects. Part time teaching, Hornsey College of Art.
Seeks governing object in drawings and paintings. Ritual Nuts
against the Wall with Horizontal Rain. Roller-skating in anthorpic
costumearound 3-legged table Subject Generator or Hyphen. Birth
of 'hyphen' concept. First Hyphen for Oxford. Amalgamation of
worksby GAG members. Associate professor, Royal College of Art,London.
Explored mutual relationship between performance, ritual and
sculpture in non-theatrical setting. Hyphen with 6 meter opening
and Ramp. Drawings in first travel - Greece and Italy |
Ortega y Gasset. D.T. Suzuki, Zen.
Islamic architecture. C.G. Jung. C.Popper. I Ching.Kirkegaard.
Giotto.Mantegna Van Eyck.Ucello. Egyptian sculpture - British
Museum. Pissanello. Joseph Beuys. Byzantine architecture. Greek
monasteries |
Edinburgh Festival. Neolitic temples,
Calanish, Isle of Lewis. Oban, N.Scotland. Norwich. Greece:
Athens, Mikonos, Paros, Thira, Santorini, Naxos, Delos, Crete.
Soutern Italy: Gubbio, Assisi, Florence, Brindisi; Milan, Venice |
GAG exhibition, Oxford MoMA. Paul
Neagu & GAG - The Horizontal Seed, Oxford of MoMA. International
show - The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London.
Hyphens: installation,Leeds Polytechnic. First prize for exhibition
The Human Condition, anthropocosmic box, at Tolly Cobbold Gallery.
Bits and Pieces: J.Beuys at GAG Gallery, London. Hyphen - Ramp
- 590 jumps at Serpentine Gallery, London. |
| 1977 |
Hyphen, Hyphens'- versions in a
range of materials. Part time teaching, Chelsea and Hornsey.
A Guide to Generative Arts published. British citizenship |
13th century history. Bernard Rudofsky:
Architecture withour architects. Ancient Greece. Cucuteni Art.
Celtic Art. |
Ireland. N.Ireland. Torcello. Murano |
Hyphen with a Cherry - Queen Elizabeth
Jubilee exhibition, Bettersea. Ramp - performance with jumps,
Isle of Iona, Scotland. The Sublimation of Flour, an installation,
Cavali Gallery, Venice. |
| 1978 |
Hyphen developed as a shape. Tactile
objects and first Hyphens for Newcastle exhibition. |
Gaston Bachelard readings. Richard
Serra.Tibetan history and religion. Roman Cotosman. Walter de
Maria, New York. Work of American sculptor Christopher Wilmarth |
New York. Philadelphia. First visit
to Romania after emigration. |
Video Interview, New York |
| 1979 |
Generative geometry vs. Reductionism
and minimalism. First Fusions in wood and soft metal. Complete
installation: Three Hyphens in a chalk circle and Fusions. First
works in steel. Durham Cathedral project: Starhead. |
Barnett Newman and David Smith.
David Nash. William Varley. Carl André. Donald Judd.
Dennis Openheim. Robert Ryman. English romanticism. Alian Kirili.
Tony Grand |
Roman wall, Cumbria. Durham. Grizedale
Forest. Newcastle. Tyne and Wear. Paris. Southern France |
Installations, Third Eye Centre,
Glasgow and ICA, London. Hyphen in New York, One-ma show, Elise
Meyer Gallery, New York. Exhibition with David Nash, NYC Gallery,
Cumbria. Great gathering of Hyphens: ICA, London |
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| The 80's |
| 1980 |
Research grant from UK Arts Council
for work at Durham and Newcastle universities. Strange forms
developed from triangles, rectangles and open circles. The geometry
of the trangle |
Greek and Roman architecture. Read:
Modern astronomy, Heraclit, Zazen. Oriental Art Museum Durham.
Chinese calligraphy, Confucius. |
Paris. Greece: Thessaloniky, Ouranopolis,
Athos. |
One-man show, Light infantry Museum,
Durham. Premisis exhibition, Norwich Art Centre. Project Art
Gallery, Dublin. Ambient exhibition - Hyphens and Fusions. |
| 1981 |
Visited Japan. Reflections on the
organic nature of Generative Art. Developed interest in conceptualism.
Ascetic life training. Dissatisfiedwith English language fluency. |
Paul Ricoeur. Gadamer. Emilio Betti.
Heidegger: Sein und Zeit. Hermetics as an interpretative method.
Taoist meditation. Japanese landscape. Kyoto temples. Shintoism.
Zen. |
Montreal. Toronto. New York.Japan
trip. Sapporo |
One-man show, Sunderland Arts Centre.
Arts Museum, Fukukoka. Exhibitions: Tokyo, Fukuaka, Sapporo.
Exhibition, Gallery Rivolta, Lausanne. Braoque '81, International
Exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Paris. |
| 1982 |
Visiting professor, Concordia University,
Montreal. Drawings develop the bringing together of entities.
Studies for Visual Hermeneutics. One week lecturing, Fine Art
Dept., British Columbia University, Vancouver. Worked on Hyphen,
Vermont, USA. Meta-philosophical reflections. Worked on synthesis,
selection and arrangements of catalitic forms, for a group of
converging,catalytically orchestrated sculptures. |
Prof. Okomoto. J.Smedley, British
sculptor in Canada. |
Romania - 2nd return visit. USA.
Canada. |
Anthropocosmos, restrospective exhibition,
Laing Gallery, Newcastle. British Art Today - ehibition in Japan.
The Generative Context - conference, Concordia University, Montreal.
A Visual Hermeneutic, conference, Vancouver. Catalotic Sculptures
Catalogue, Montreal and New York. |
| 1983 |
Catalitic sculpture project matures:
Hyphen and Swinging Hyphen (later Edge Runner). A Three-legged
Cross becomes A-Cross. Double Hyphen and Open Monolith. Definition
later Cross. Enneagon, stainless steel and wood. Occupied large
workshop, London. Unnamed, first steel spheres. |
Mystic astrology. Min Tanaka, Japanese
performance artist. Janet Wolff: a study of social hermeneutics. |
New York. Boston. Toronto. |
One-man show, Liverpool University
and K Gallery, Tokyo. Hyphen exhibition, Olga Korper Gallery,
Toronto. One-man show, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo. |
| 1984-85 |
Time and Space - ten day workshop,
Anchorage, Alaska.Phalus-Hyphen-Self-prints from Alaska. Alaska
Hyphen, oak. Unfinished essay: Visual Hermeneutics. Unnamed:
steel spheres; flows and experiments in open air.More reshaped
forms in steel: Open Monolith and Starhead.Part time lecturer,
Slade School of Art. Catalitic Sculpture series continued. |
The Transfigurative Vision, by Jose
Arguelles. Jean Francois Lyotard. Bullfight. Tibetan literature.
Gunter Herbert. Etruscan art. |
Paris. S.France. Italy.Nimes. Italy. |
Catalitic Sculpture - open air exhibition,
London Business School. 10th Anniversary of Hyphen - metal struck
for British Museum Hyphen Catalogue, 1975-1985. |
| 1986 |
Nine Catalitic Stations devised.
Worked in wood: Twenty-Four Arguments, variations of Catalitic
Sculpture. Worked on wood versions of Stations with steel spheres,
in association with friend Alisa Barry. Moved to new workshop. |
Oriental philosophy. Catalitic oracle.
Ion Barbu. Robert Smithson. |
Mâcon, France. Fourth visit
to Romania. |
Catalitic Sculpture conference,
Slade School of Art.Open air Systems of Catalytic Sculptures,
K Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1987 |
Won „On the Strand“
sculpture competition, Charing Cross, London. Triple Starhead
commissioned. |
Marin Tarangul.Contemporary hermeneutics.
Pseudo-philospphical investigations. |
Paris. Munich. Daggendorf (on the
Danube) |
Nine Catalytic Stations, Serpentine
Gallery, London; toured to Swansea and Newcastle |
| 1988 |
Visit to Yugoslavia with Demarco
Group. Steel spheres made in France. Yvonne's Hyphen, sculptures
made in wood and copper. Bought house in Somène, France.
Wallnuts studies -photographs and studies - photographs and
drawings. Unnamed Water. Death of mother, November. |
Read: Lucian Blaga. C. Noica. Meeting
with Benedictine monks, Vaals, Netherlands. Maestrovich museum,
Yugoslavia. |
Vaals. Belgrade. Ljiubliana. Sarajevo.
Traquaire House, Scotland. |
Demarco 'spontaneous' exhibition,
Sarajevo. Sarajevo Hyphen, adhoc installation, oak and rail
tracks. One - man show, Narrow Water Castle,N. Ireland |
| 1989 |
Retrwat in Sumène. Wallnuts,
spheres, water. Kidney disease; transplant waiting list. 9 months
of kidney dialysis - time for meditation. Death of father. Slade
School of Art. Communism collapses in Romania. |
Pyrénées flora, fauna,
hunting. Van den Laan, priest and architect, Holland. Chilia,
Spanish sculptor. |
France, N. Ireland. |
Deep Space and Solid Time - conference
in Dublin. |
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| The 90's |
| 1990 |
Three Stars - red, yellow and blue
- a poster for Timisoara. Sister Rodica donates a kidney for
transplant. St.Paul's Hospital, London. Unnamed (Water), Essential
Sculpture. Signed steel spheres sold. From volume in sculpture
to volume in architecture. |
Architectural hermeneutics. Dalibor
Veselay. |
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Nine Catalytic Stations, Minories
Galler, Colchester. Painting and one sculpture for one-man show,
K Gallery, Tokyo. |
| 1991 |
Nine Catalytic Stations revived/retitled
Epagoge. Versions in wood, bronze and steel. Number of stations
increases to eleven with composition and form changes. Awarded
Sargent research grant, British Academy, Rome. Architectural
scheme. Awarded comission for Century Cross, Bucharest. |
Heraclit. Martin Buber. Petre Tutea.
Cioran: La tentation d'exister. Piero della Francesca. Jean
Baudrillard. Torino Museum - Egyptian art. Etruscan Art, Villa
Giulia. |
Three visits to Romania. Rome. Torino.
Rimini. |
Exhibitions in Romania: Barlad and
Bacau, Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara, Bistrita. Shows at British
Academy, Rome. |
| 1992 |
Returned to London. Research and
rethinking of the Epagoge installation. Two versions of Epagoge
in bronze and steel. Sketch New Hyphen - various using different
materials. |
Egyptian granite. Pantheon's columns.
Obelisks. Etruscan ceramics and bronze. Cultural anthropology. |
Romania (x3). Rome, Viterbo, Sienna,
Assisi, Venice, Luca. Enache Valley, Bistrita. Paris, Toulouse,
Montpellier. |
One-man show, Emilia Suciu Gallery,
Karlsruhe. |
| 1993 |
Nine Catalytic Stations and Unnamed
(grouped spheres) mingle to form Epagoge, a steel construction.
Epagoge, nine sculptures and 81 spheres ensemble. Drawings and
watercolours. Betweenness - strings of beads mixed with Catalytic
Sculptures in smaller versions. Synthetic form of New Hyphen
- sculpture, painting, drawing. |
Iris Murdoch, philosophical works.
Paul Constantinescu : neo-Byzantine music. Harry Tavitian, pianist-
Romanian Jazz. Matei Stircea-Craciun. |
Romania (x3) |
Triple Starhead, 5m high steel,
International Exhibition, Chelsea Harbour, London. Epagoge,
Flowers East Gallery, London. |
| 1994 |
New Hyphen and Unnamed. Reorganisation
of nothing. Six years of work unfinished Epagoge continues slowly
due to lack of funds. Sacramentalia. |
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Romania (x3). Paris. Montpellier.
Gauges. |
New Hyphen at First Gallery, Timisoara,
Romania. Small retrospective show, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu,
Romania. Triple Starhead, HatHill Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood,
Sussex. |
| 1995 |
Table of the Silence, International
Brancusi workshop, Bucharest. New Hyphen renamed Ten Right Angles/Ten
Righteous Angels. Resumeswork on Sacramentalia. |
Death of Donald Judd. Constantin
Brancusi Retrospectives: Paris and Philadelphia |
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Ten Right Angles/Ten Righteous Angels,
Hungarian Cultural Centre, Bucharest. Paul Neagu at Tochigi
- Restrospective of the Cross,Japan. Generative Art Trust (GAT)
founded in London with unsuccessful launch of the projects of
the new millenium: Anthropocosmos, Open Sk and Iconic Gardens. |
| 1996 |
Donated 140 works to the National
Art Museum, Bucharest. |
Peter Sloterdijk, critique of Cynical
Reason. John D.Barrow: The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. |
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Reorganisation of Nothing, published
by GAT. |
| 1997 |
Continues to develop Hyphen concept,
and experiments with steel spheres. Catalytic Bronze and hundreds
of spheres. Resumed ideas about performance art (Going Tornado). |
Jean Luc Nancy: The Birth to Presence. |
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Century Cross erected in Charles
de Gaulle Plaza, Bucharest. Unnamed, Escaton, Goodwood Park,
Sussex. Hyphen 75, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles.
Out of Action - Between performance and object, Barcelona, Tokyo
and Vienna. |
| 1998 |
Hyphen sculptures developed in different
materials. Adapted previous techniques. |
D. Kuspit, American critic - collaborated
on text for Flowers Gallery |
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Endless Hyphens, sculpture as architype
of evolution. Flowers East, London. Photographs in the Body
and the East exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Ljiubliana, Slovenia |
| 1999 |
Workshop, Southern China, Sculpture
for a Magical Landscape. Steel 5m high Hyphen on granite pedestal.
Anthropocosmos, 300m diameter project for China. Monumental
Sacramentalia cast in bronze. Sells house and workshop in France.
New workshop, Curtea de Arges. |
Yuzi-Paradis, 5 weeks with 15 sculptors
from different countries. C.Howells on Derrida. J. Derrida on
desconstruction. J.D. Caputo. |
China dn the Guilin river. France.
Timisoara. Curtea de Arges. |
Workshop in China, Confucius, I
Ching and Catalytic Sculpture. Lecture: The cosmosation of the
human being during Out of Action exhibition, MAK Vienna. Crucifixion,
monumental steel sculpture, Timisoara. |
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| 2000 |
| 2000-2001 |
Edited new GAT catalogue, A Derridean
Tornado. Tornado - like drawings, Hyphen wing for 'filtering
tactile sculpture'. Sacramentalia transformation; an orchestration
of approx. 30 unfinished works. Sold Neagu archive to Tate Modern
Gallery |
Donald Kuspit. Roger Penrose - Shadows
of the Mind. Marin Tarangul. Death of Horia Bernea. |
New York, Canada. |
Small solo exhibition of steel sculpture,
MoMA, Ljiubliana. New arrangement of works at Odapark, the Netherlands.
New arrangement of 3 sculptures for Romanian Cultural Centre,
New York. |
| 2002 |
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| 2004 |
Dies in London on June 16th 2004
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| Extract from Matei Stircea-Craciun, 'Paul Neagu
Nine Catalytic Stations', with the kind approval of the author. The
main part of this biography has been signed off by Paul Neagu. |
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