Paul Neagu

Description

For Paul Neagu sculpture is a catalyst for ideas and their social role. His works are archetypes for notions that are not normally seen in concrete form. In Triple Starhead he has taken the opened up shape of a shooting star and constructed it in three repeated forms firmly bolted together and rooted in the ground. However, the soaring head with its 'comet's tail' conveys meanings quite contrary to those of a heavy earthbound object. The convention of a blurred photographic image capturing a moving body is relevant here, and the 'tail', a graphic device used by cartoonists, acts as a visual thrust whilst in fact being an anchor. The shimmering surface of stainless steel worked to swirling textures endows the material with additional resonance in both sunlight and moonlight, heightening the concepts behind Triple Starhead.