PAUL NEAGU – THE MONOGRAPH

The Romanian Cultural Institute in London is happy to host and support the launching event of "Paul Neagu - The Monograph", an album dedicated to the Romanian-born, UK-based artist Paul Neagu (1938–2004) which represents the first comprehensive overview of the artist’s oeuvre at a time when his activities as an artist, both in Western and Eastern Europe, are ripe for reassessment. The event, organised by The Paul Neagu Estate (UK), features a conversation between the two editors of the work, Magda Radu and Georg Schöllhammer.

Paul Neagu settled in London in 1971, but the seeds of his artistic practice and methodology had already been planted. A versatile artist, excelling in both two and three-dimensional forms of expression, Neagu was also a performer, writer and thinker. This publication offers new interpretations of his themes and cycles of works (such as tactile art; Hyphen, his major sculptural invention; the concept of Anthropocosmos;…