Octavian Neagu
Born 1965, Ploiesti, Romania. Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark since 1990.
I was born in Romania 1965 and belong to the so called sacrificed generation. During time of the cold war and the dictatorial epoch of East- Europe; my way to survive spiritually and to save myself as a human being was to express my self through visual arts.
My first conceptual art was as 5 years old: I modelled a baby-cow from the cheese my mother tortured me to eat for breakfast. Later on, as revenge, I drew on the mirror my portrait as an old witch with my mothers lipstick. Thus I was sent to an art- school convinced that I belonged there.
Never the less there was a mistake again; I could not cope with the socialist-realism and I find my self in the year of my diploma on the streets together with people fighting against dictatorship. My first exhibition and the first exhibition in the streets of Bucharest I made together with the Danish artist E.A. Frandsen.
Those were the weapons I chose. The exhibition was taken by a modern art gallery in Lyon and I have been invited to exhibit in Gallery Specta in Denmark, later to study at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen.
Well the Romanians, they expelled me anyway, so my self-exile started. I now live and work in Copenhagen.
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