PAUL NEAGU – THE MONOGRAPH

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Jun 27, 2024
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Updated: Jul 30

Two Editors in Conversation

The series of events organised on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "arch-Neagu. Paul Neagu and Architecture" at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London continued with the launch of a seminal and monumental work to which contributed no less than 11 Paul Neagu specialists, "Paul Neagu – The Monograph". We were honoured to have with us Magda Radu and Georg Schöllhammer, the two editors of the Monograph, who discussed the legacy of Paul Neagu in the broader frame of European art and shared with the public fascinating details of the artist's practice and what makes him unique.

The event was opened by Raluca Ioana Cimpoiasu, Deputy Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, who welcomed the public and presented the two guests and by Iolanda M. B. Costide, a close friend of Paul Neagu's and one of the trustees of The Paul Neagu Estate UK, who spoke about the lengthy, but rewarding process of creating and publishing the Monograph.

We were fortunate to have in the audience many people who knew Paul Neagu and who shared with us touching stories about the artist. As always, many thanks to our guests and our warm public. After the conversation, the two editors signed copies of "Paul Neagu - The Monograph".

The exhibition can be visited every day until 7 July (including) from 11 AM to 5 PM.

Georgs Shöllhammer is a publisher, author, curator and editor-in-chief of springerin - Hefte für Gegenwartskunst and has worked internationally on cultural projects such as documenta 12, Manifesta 8, the Biennials of Venice, São Paulo, Gyumri, Kyiv, Sweet Sixties, L'internationale, Former West, the Wiener Festwochen and Vienna Contemporary, e.a. Schöllhammer is also head of transit and the international research group Local Modernities, founder of the Július Koller Society and was an editor for visual arts at the daily newspaper Der Standard from 1988 to 1994. He has curated numerous exhibitions at international museums and is the editor and author of essential monographs and anthologies on the history of contemporary art. Schöllhammer lives and works in Vienna.

Magda Radu is a curator and art historian based in Bucharest. She is a founder and co-director of the independent art space Salonul de proiecte – a program focused on the production of new artworks, publications and discursive platforms. She is the editor or co-editor of exhibition catalogues and books, including Paul Neagu – The Monograph (2023), Art in Romania Between 1945- 2000. An Analysis from Today’s Perspective (2016), Dear Money (2014) and André Cadere/Andrei Cădere (2011). She co-curated the first international retrospective of Paul Neagu at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2021), Neue Galerie Graz (2022), and The Museum of Art Timișoara (2022-2023). In the last few years, she curated exhibitions at institutions including KIOSK Ghent (in the framework of Europalia 2019); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Berlin (n.b.k.); ArtEncounters Biennale, Timișoara; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; MUSAC, Leon; Photo España, Madrid. In 2017, she curated the Romanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale with the project "Geta Brătescu – Apparitions". In the context of Timișoara 2023 – European Capital of Culture, she co-curated the exhibition "Mircea Nicolae – Small Things, Precious Things", conceived by Salonul de proiecte, as well as the performance program ZONA &, together with Corina Oprea.

This event was organised by The Paul Neagu Estate (UK) with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute.