"Rediscovery section | Booth A09"
Paul Neagu
Art Brussels 2017
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25 > 28 APRIL 2019
Rediscovery section | Booth A09
Considered one of the most important Romanian artists, Paul Neagu (b. 1938, Bucharest - d. 2004, London) has lived and worked in London since 1970 until his death in 2004. His complex artistic practice integrates performance, sculpture, drawing, painting, video and photography, inside his original, holistic, metaphysical view on art. Tactility underlines one of Neagu's enduring aims: to refute what he perceived as the primacy of visuality within art. In late 1960s Paul Neagu came to embody his conception of an art that could be touched, felt, tasted, moved, into what he named "tactile objects". Their purpose was not to be beautiful, but to interact with the visitor in new different ways, objectives stated by the artist in his 1969 "Palpable Art Manifesto". In 1970, by way of an exhibition in Edinburgh, he resettled in London, where his international outlook and rich, original work made him an influential teacher in art schools there for decades, with a decisive influence on a generation of sculptors, including Anthony Caro, Antony Gormley, and Anish Kapoor, among others. In 1972 he founded the Generative Art Group, which consisted of five fictitious members, each representing different parts of his psyche.
Considered one of the most important Romanian artists, Paul Neagu (b. 1938, Bucharest - d. 2004, London) has lived and worked in London since 1970 until his death in 2004. His complex artistic practice integrates performance, sculpture, drawing, painting, video and photography, inside his original, holistic, metaphysical view on art. Tactility underlines one of Neagu's enduring aims: to refute what he perceived as the primacy of visuality within art. In late 1960s Paul Neagu came to embody his conception of an art that could be touched, felt, tasted, moved, into what he named "tactile objects". Their purpose was not to be beautiful, but to interact with the visitor in new different ways, objectives stated by the artist in his 1969 "Palpable Art Manifesto". In 1970, by way of an exhibition in Edinburgh, he resettled in London, where his international outlook and rich, original work made him an influential teacher in art schools there for decades, with a decisive influence on a generation of sculptors, including Anthony Caro, Antony Gormley, and Anish Kapoor, among others. In 1972 he founded the Generative Art Group, which consisted of five fictitious members, each representing different parts of his psyche.
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BELGIUM fair art press release
Opening times :
Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 April 2019
Thursday 25 April: 5 pm - 10 pm (Vernissage*)
Friday 26 April: 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday 27 April: 11 am - 7 pm **
Sunday 28 April: 11 am - 7 pm **
* Preview (by invitation only) from 11 am until 5 pm & *Vernissage from 5 pm until 10 pm
** Kids Room, free of charge, available for your kids from 3y to 12y old, run by the non profit oragnisation RASA https://www.rasa.be/
TICKETS :
Student action: on Friday 26 April, free access for students on presentation of their student card.
Belfius action: for purchase at the fair: benefit from a 50% discount on presentation of your Belfius bank card
Student ticket €8 iso €10 at the fair
valid once from 27 to 28 April 2019free entrance on Fri 26 Aprilon presentation of your student card
Day ticket €16 €20 at the fair
valid once from 26 to 28 April 2019
Free entrance for children under 16 years old
Vernissage € 50
€50 for 1 person
€90 for 2 personsvalid once on Thursday 25 April from 5 to 10 pmCopy of the catalogue included
Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 April 2019
Thursday 25 April: 5 pm - 10 pm (Vernissage*)
Friday 26 April: 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday 27 April: 11 am - 7 pm **
Sunday 28 April: 11 am - 7 pm **
* Preview (by invitation only) from 11 am until 5 pm & *Vernissage from 5 pm until 10 pm
** Kids Room, free of charge, available for your kids from 3y to 12y old, run by the non profit oragnisation RASA https://www.rasa.be/
TICKETS :
Student action: on Friday 26 April, free access for students on presentation of their student card.
Belfius action: for purchase at the fair: benefit from a 50% discount on presentation of your Belfius bank card
Student ticket €8 iso €10 at the fair
valid once from 27 to 28 April 2019free entrance on Fri 26 Aprilon presentation of your student card
Day ticket €16 €20 at the fair
valid once from 26 to 28 April 2019
Free entrance for children under 16 years old
Vernissage € 50
€50 for 1 person
€90 for 2 personsvalid once on Thursday 25 April from 5 to 10 pmCopy of the catalogue included
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