Neal Beggs : Headers
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"Neal Beggs is one of these artists who strive to embrace at once, art, life, the material world of objects and the more abstract one of thoughts. I see his whole body of work as a neverending open-road. I like the way he is saying that the real is also abstract, and that one can look at it and experience it from afar. I like above all his ability to maintain an ethical level on the act of making art." |
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| Sophie Legrandjacques is curator at Le Grand Café, St Nazaire, France. | ||
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"We were quick to assume that the work of Neal Beggs could, in the main, be approached via the theme of climbing, and that the question of medium-specificity under no circumstances offered a relevant line of approach. In light of recent exhibitions in Aalst, Brussels or Château-Gontier, we must, however, conclude that different perspectives are possible. |
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| Jean-Marc Huitorel is a French art critic and historian, author and regular contributor to ArtPress. | ||
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"Much of Neal Beggs’s work is attached to a specific form of adventure: rock-climbing. A former mountaineer, he has turned this experience into a lifestyle, an attitude that he restores in his work by seeking to invalidate the boundary between art and life. His pieces, often ‘participatory’ for the public, borrow their formal vocabulary from that sport (climbing walls, hand holds, etc.). But the analogy is taken further beyond just these literal plastic qualities, as the artist adapts the principle of his sporting practice to the process of artistic creation." |
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| Guillaume Mansart : In/visible collection productions’ Frac Lorraine 2006. | ||
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