Crevedia Mare, Giurgiu, Romania
Dragoș Neagoe is a special figure in Romanian sculpture.He never left the territory of figurative sc...
About the artist
Joined In 2022
(3 Followers)
About the artist
Joined In 2022
(3 Followers)
Dragoș Neagoe is a special figure in Romanian sculpture.He never left the territory of figurative sculpture, only enriched it, bringing new ways of modeling and casting, in a post-Rodin, post-Giacometti tradition. At the same time, the reference to the studied anatomical forms is in agreement with his way of deciphering the world around him, his own well-defined universe, both physically and spiritually.
Physically, Dragoș Neagoe has a superb workshop in a country yard, where he moved with his family when he was thirty-five years old. Basically, this is how the experience of casting directly into pits, specially dug instead of negatives, began. It is important to discover in this artist the way he organized his workshop and his way of working. After moving to one of the neighboring communes of Bucharest, he started working directly with nature, with the earth. He makes his negatives for casting directly into pits. This gesture is half conceptual and half ingenious solution, it speeds up the process and saves materials, thus also enjoying the external intervention of the earth on his works. Beyond the beauty of some portraits-roots-vestiges, working directly in the ground is a novelty in Romanian sculpture. "The sky is the limit" b...
⦁ 2005-2008 intensive restoration-conservation course on mobile heritage in wood-polychrome and sculpture
⦁ 2004 master's degree in visual arts, class of professor Vasile Gorduz
⦁ 2002 degree in sculpture---class of professor Vasile Gorduz, as Pârvu Adrian University of Art Bucharest
⦁ 1992-1998 Bucharest University of Construction, Technological Equipment section
⦁ 1990-1991 Mihai Eminescu High School Bucharest
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
⦁ 2022- HEAD(S)#3 - Targu Jiu Art Museum
⦁ 2021 HEAD(S)#2 -- Galeria Calpe, TIMISOARA
⦁ 2021 Imprint of a portrait found --- Golesti Museum, Arges county
⦁ 2019--inside matter / outside queenbees--Palatul Teodor Costescu Installation, Art
⦁ 2017- SHAPE (S) – Contemporary Arts Center Brancovenesti Palace, installation, organic art, sculpture
⦁ 2017 -HEAD (S) Galleries Carol, ,installation,sculpture,video,performance a Night Gallery
⦁ 2016-Memory of Dreams-Funnel Contemporary Art Gallery, sculpture
⦁ 2012- Dreams of Ion Petrisor-Simeza Gallery, sculpture, installation, video, photography
⦁ 2011-FORM(S)- Contemporary Arts Center Crevedia Mare, sculpture, installation
Group exhibitions (selection):
2022- CSWEEK - Galatecca Gallery, Bucharest
2022-Monumnet Exhibition-For -Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest
2022-Sculpture Exhibition "Homage to Constantin Brancusi" -Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2021-Small Sculpture Salon-Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2021- Apocalypse of the White Elephant-Garrizoana, Timisoara
2020- Center for visual arts-Caminul Artei
2020-Art Audiovisual Center Brasov-STUP Group
2019-collateral exhibition group Stup at ArtEncounters-Calpe Gallery, Timisoara
2019-Centre Cultura...