45. Chora (City Plan) [1976-1997]

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45. Chora (City Plan) [1976-1997]

Paul Neagu

1938, Bucureşti - 2004, Londra

Estimate:

EUR 3.000 - 5.000

Sold

EUR 3.000

References

The catalogue "Paul Neagu", National Art Museum of Romania, Bucharest, 1996.

acrylic, oil and glaze on wood, 39 x 50 cm, 39 Ã 50 cm, signed, dated and named on the reverse, in black, "Paul Neagu, Chora, 1976-1997"

Paul Neagu's creation is usually gathered into extended cycles, to which the artist assigns specific names and deep meanings. The present work, suggestively named "Chora", reveals the conceptual artist's interests and philosophical quests. Initially mentioned by Plato, "Chora" was intended as toponymy or a receptacle of the abstract. Brought to contemporaneity, Chora becomes the philosophical basis of metaphysical architectural non-conformity, as well as a preferred term by the representatives of last century's deconstructivism. Neagu's work - a random merging of lines, shapes and colour spots - acquires the valence of an ordered chaos, revealing us the artist's interest for the division between the figurative and the decorative. In his works, hesitation and progress harmoniously merge and hermetically unite. From his fractional and generative geometry studies, Neagu extracts the most flexible shapes, bearing an extraordinary plastic potential: the triangle, the rectangle and the circle, which he transposes, one by one, into the shape of the cone, the prism or the sphere. A multifaceted artist, he demonstrates, just like many other sculptors before him, a particular inclination towards drawing. For Neagu, drawing is a tool: in painting, as well as in sculpture. The attitude he adopts in front of the art is obviously agnostic. He prefers making recourse to consciousness and to remove all traces of esoterism from his work, leaving, however, room for multiple interpretation possibilities.

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