Neagoe Dragos (1974) - Sculpture for the blind

"I hid in it my curiosity for the unknown" - Thus Brancusi launches the concept: sculpture for the blind.Since I got to know Brancusi's work, I have been concerned with bringing back to the fore some ideas of the sculptor from Olt in the contemporary figurative in the environment of social problems frequently encountered in the world.There is the term "dissociation" found very often in the vocabulary of psychologists, journalists, and artists.Dissociation is the most primitive element of our natural response to pain, threat and trauma. It is a way of automatically disconnecting from the whole environment. This allows us to manage overwhelming anxiety and fear by minimizing movement and energy expenditure and numbing ourselves so that we don't feel pain.I hear more and more often about people who dissociate. People who want to get rid of too much suffering. They close in on themselves. The world they created, inside them, is much softer.The current work "Sculpture for the blind" appeared after a personal experience of dissociation, following a tragic event: the death of my father. I hid my suffering in my palms and escaped into my world. The sculpture is a surrealist one. , where the hands are distorted, deformed emphasizing another dimension, not the physical one.The hands also symbolize the 'wall' between the real world (the viewer) and the imaginary world (the sculpture behind the hands). I chose Aphrodite's face because she symbolizes the beauty of paradise, she is the ideal, supreme love.The work is cast in yellowish stone dust with cement, imitating a stone dear to me, which also has certain imperfections, voids, creating an old effect.



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Links with interviews (specialist magazines and video):
- https://youtu.be/cLxsUe3MH8o?si=KD-alXiNipkGZ5N0
- https://youtu.be/VU1aEkOdI5E?si=WYcZCzyJfF1awznR
- https://youtu.be/I_zY_ws6BzU?si=-KIgLaRkXAughgOQ
- https://youtu.be/ZYYMkQlKSxo?si=YTuTEf2wMN4X6X6X
- https://local.cultartes.com/2020/01/28/interviu-introducere-in-arta-lui-dragos-neagoe-sau-despre-cum-raiul-se-plamadeste-intr-o-groapa/
-https://www.modernism.ro/2021/06/15/heads-2-dragos-neagoe-calpe-gallery-timisoara/
-https://www.modernism.ro/2021/06/15/dragos-neagoe-amprenta-unui-portret-regasit-muzeul-golesti-2/
- https://www.glamouraffair.com/dragos-neagoe-sculptor-dialogue/
- https://propagarta.ro/imagini-video/expozitia-lui-dragos-neagoe-de-la-muzeul-din-targu-jiu/
- https://propagarta.ro/imagini-video/expozitia-lui-dragos-neagoe-de-la-calpe-gallery/
- https://propagarta.ro/imagini-video/expozitia-every-life-contributes-to-history-semnata-de-dragos-neagoe-si-invitata-sa-ramona-guran/

Studies:

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

Expozition:
2022 HEAD(S)#3–Museum of Art Tg Jiu ,Romania
2021 HEAD(S)#2 –Galeria Calpe ,TIMISOARA,Romania
2021 The imprint of a portrait refound—Muzeul Golesti ,jud Arges
2019–inside matter / outside queenbees–Palatul Teodor Costescu Instalation ,ArT
2017- SHAPE (S) –Contemporary Arts Center Brancovenesti Palace,installation,art organic,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
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 Cultural REDUTA-Group STUP, Brasov
2019-LandArt-Geopark Hateg-installation sculpture-Group STUP
2018-Arts in Bucharest, installation sculpture, Bucharest,
2016 Arts in Bucharest – 3rd prize with the work "Every life contributes to history", installation sculpture
2015 Arts in Bucharest -2015
2015 NEURON Group-Reanimation 2 – Contemporary Art Center – Mogosoaia
2015 Artyourself Gallery – participation in the AnOther project: Same, same, but differen
2014 Exhibition at the Tipografia Gallery as part of the Bucharest experimental print biennial..NEURON group
2014 Exhibition at Gallery IX within the NEURON group
2013 Art Salon in Bucharest-2013, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2012 Arts Fair in Bucharest-2012-Visual Arts Center, Caminul Artei, Bucharest
2012 PERSONAL EXHIBITION, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest—Dreams of Ion Petrisor
2012 Salon BB5-Visual Arts Center, Caminul Artei, Bucharest
2012 Small Sculpture Salon-Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2011 Sculptor drawings—Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2011 Art Fair in Bucharest-2012-Visual Arts Center (finalist-sculpture section)
2011 Salon of small sculpture - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2010 Sculptor drawings-Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2010 Small Sculpture Salon - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2010 Exhibition by the Artmark group-galleries
2009 Small Sculpture Salon - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2008 Sculptor drawings - Visual Arts Center, Caminul Artei, Bucharest
2008 Salon of small sculpture - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2006 Sculpture exhibition - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2006 "Sculpturogram" - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2006 Sculptor drawings - Center for Visual Arts, Caminul Artei, Bucharest
2006 Small Sculpture Salon - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2006 Bucharest Municipal Salon, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2005 Small Sculpture Salon-Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2005 Bucharest Municipal Fair, Bucharest
2005 Young contemporary sculptors-Bucharest literature museum
2005 Group exhibition - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2004 Small Sculpture Salon - Apollo Gallery Bucharest
2004 Group exhibition (master's degree) - NATIONAL THEATER - BUCHAREST
2004 Group exhibition - Dalles Hall - Bucharest
2004 Bucharest Municipal Salon, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2004 "Accents and Imprints" - Apollo Gallery Bucharest
2004 Graphic Art Salon-Galleria Apollo Bucharest
2003 Bucharest Municipal Salon-Apollo Gallery Bucharest
2003 "Accents and Imprints" - Apollo Gallery Bucharest
2003 Group exhibition - Center for Visual Arts, Caminul Artei, Bucharest
2003 Small Sculpture Salon - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2002 Group exhibition (license) - Museum of Romanian Literature
2002 Bucharest Municipal Hall-Sala Dalles
2002 "Accents and Imprints" - Apollo Gallery Bucharest