Design drawing for The Subject, Generato
1975
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1975
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Design drawing for The Subject, Generato is a 1975 by Paul Neagu, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a strange metal machine with two curved arms and a long beam. It’s drawn in pencil with quick, messy lines and lots of notes scribbled around it. The artist labeled parts like "Going Tornado," "Blind’s Bite," and "Horizontal Ram," along with arrows showing how it might move. The notes talk about cycles and ideas, like "emotional experience" and "propagation of things." The machine looks like it’s meant to do something, but the drawing is more about the thoughts behind it than the final object. Next, look up Victoria and Albert Museum to see more sketches like this.
A design drawing from 1976 for the installation *Gradually Going Tornado*, specifically for the section titled *The Subject, Generator*, depicts a narrow table with legs rendered in distorted perspective, positioned above several lines of ink writing. The drawing is one of three (Circ.37, 37a, and 37b) that outline components of the larger work, which includes wooden constructions, some featuring distorted perspective and glass elements. The artist provided explanations of the components in the exhibition catalogue for *Gradually Going Tornado* at Sunderland Arts Centre in 1975.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Paul Neagu (1938–2004) was a Romanian-British artist, born in Romania and living in England from 1970 onwards, who worked in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance art and watercolor. He died on 16 June 2004 in London.
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