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MELANCOLIA FULGERULUI      Vlad Neagoe are cosmognia în sânge. Închipuirea sa e inflamantă de spectacole terifiante, de convulsii metaf...

Sunday, 8 February 2026

OPINIE REALISTĂ

 

În Respublica democratică Moldova Basarabia bântuie un curent foarte puternic care poate să se transforme într-un tsunami. Vârfurile lui sunt niște agenți KGB convertiți la masonerie și plătiți gras de București: A. Suceveanu, V. Gârneț și Vitalie Ciobanu (acești doi sunt soț și soție), L. Butnaru și alți comisari unioniști. Acest curent militează ca faimoasa Respublică să devină stat al SUA, al 51-lea încorporat pe vecie și prosper. Maia Sandu, guvernator, că oricum chipul ei măreț se aseamănă cu cel al Janei DArc. Și președintele Trump cu apetituri de lățire s-ar trezi cu o gălușcă mustoasă în gură. Eu cred că aici e mâna Providenței. Așa s-ar rezolva un ghem de probleme din regiune, iar moldovenii vor fi fericiți, fericiți. Eu îi susțin.

Saturday, 7 February 2026

CUGETARE (În literatura română...)

 

În literatura română doar handicapații joacă domino. Se aude numai sunetul pietricelelor de os de bou marcate cu punctulețe și hăhăitură, behăitură.

CUGETARE (N. Manolescu)

 

Răposatul N. Manolescu a salvat în ”Arca lui Noe” a sa doar păduchii țiganilor. De ce acei de la academie nu-i sparg numele inscripționat în marmură? E primul ins retardat mintal care a reușit să ajungă în acel for.

THE VOLUPTUPOUSNESS OF YOU NOT TO BE BORN

 

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Let us be more than ever sceptics

let us prefer the non-birth the lethal

voluptuousness of you not to be born

the more you fuck, the more you value

the voluptuousness of you not to be born.   

NOCTURNE

 

The light darkens the windows

always in this world they give birth

shouts, sighs, singings, furies amble

along the weasand, word born

of nowhere giving countenance

to those unseen, a sort of created

unknown and giving cecity to those

armour-plated against the poesy

and music and these ones ascending

leisurely coming with the sombre

head convince us that the poesy

and the music are some trifles

some illogical “stupid things”

without you being able to find out

their sense as at the flights of sparks

they might be right because many

share the same view and yet only

the Silence moves you closer to God –

the words are objects but to me these

are a hearse of my secluded slumber

shepherd’s hut of my foolishness

a green and a blue flood her.   

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

ANALYSIS OF THE DRAWING "REMNANT OF QUEEN"

 


Below is a layered reading of L. Neagoe’s Remnant of Queen followed by a refined curatorial note suitable for an exhibition context. The work invites a different kind of attention than The Goddess: here the mythic is quieter, more internal, almost archaeological in its emotional register.

Analytical Reading of Remnant of Queen by L. Neagoe

The drawing presents a queen not in her moment of power, but in a state of suspension—horizontal, serene, almost fossil‑like. The title, Remnant of Queen, immediately frames the work as an exploration of what persists after sovereignty, after narrative, after time.

1. The Horizontal Figure

  • The queen lies on her side, a posture that evokes repose, death, dreaming, or metamorphosis.
  • This horizontal orientation destabilizes the usual verticality of royal representation; instead of elevation, we encounter vulnerability and stillness.

2. Crown and Identity

  • The crown is unmistakable yet understated, a simple linear form that signals royalty without ostentation.
  • It functions less as a symbol of power and more as a fragile relic—an emblem of identity that survives even when the body becomes a contour.

3. The Body as Landscape

  • The dress is rendered with concentric, ripple‑like lines, reminiscent of tree rings, geological strata, or topographic maps.
  • This transforms the queen’s body into a terrain of memory, suggesting that identity is layered, sedimented, and shaped by time.

4. The Floral Motif

  • The flower placed at the chest introduces a pulse of organic life.
  • It may symbolize renewal, inner essence, or the persistence of spirit beyond the erosion of form.

5. Minimalism and Silence

  • The drawing’s economy of line creates a sense of quietude.
  • The absence of background situates the figure in a conceptual space—neither historical nor narrative, but contemplative.

6. Conceptual Positioning

  • The work is not a portrait of a specific queen but a meditation on what remains of authority, femininity, and myth once stripped of context.
  • The signature and handwritten title reinforce the personal, almost intimate nature of the piece.

Curatorial Note

In Remnant of Queen, L. Neagoe distills the idea of sovereignty into a poetic, almost archaeological fragment. The queen is depicted horizontally, her body elongated into a serene contour that hovers between human form and landscape. The crown, rendered with minimalist clarity, becomes a quiet marker of identity rather than a symbol of power. Around her, the flowing, concentric lines of the dress evoke tree rings or geological strata, suggesting that the figure has become a site of memory—layered, weathered, and enduring.

A single floral motif placed at the chest introduces a note of organic vitality, hinting at an inner life that persists beneath the surface. The overall composition is spare yet resonant, inviting viewers to contemplate what survives of a life, a role, or a myth once its narrative has faded. Neagoe’s queen is not a ruler in action but a remnant—an echo of dignity, a trace of presence, a quiet testament to the enduring complexity of the feminine archetype.

SOURCE : COPILOT 


ANALYSIS OF THE DRAWING "THE GODDESS"

 


Below is a layered analysis followed by a polished curatorial note—something that could stand in an exhibition catalogue or on a gallery wall. I’m treating the drawing with the same seriousness you bring to your own curatorial work, attending to symbolism, line, and conceptual positioning.

Analytical Reading of The Goddess by L. Neagoe

The drawing stages a contemporary re‑imagining of ancient Egyptian iconography, but it does so with a distinctly personal, almost intimate sensibility. Rather than striving for archaeological accuracy, the artist distills the Egyptian canon into a set of emblematic signs—profiled geometry, frontal gaze, stylized headdress, ornamental collar—and then subtly disrupts it.

1. The Face and Gaze

  • The blue eyes are the first rupture: they break from the traditional Egyptian chromatic system and introduce a modern, psychological presence.
  • The gaze is direct, frontal, and self‑possessed, refusing the sideways profile typical of Egyptian art. This creates a tension between antiquity and contemporaneity, between archetype and individuality.

2. The Headdress and Symbolic Markers

  • The headdress is rendered with a combination of geometric precision and expressive linework.
  • The hieroglyphic‑like signs to the left are not literal hieroglyphs but evocations—a visual language invented by the artist to gesture toward sacred writing without reproducing it. This positions the work in the realm of symbolic fiction rather than historical reconstruction.

3. Color and Ornament

  • The restrained palette—primarily blues, reds, and gold‑ochre tones—echoes Egyptian mural traditions while maintaining a contemporary graphic clarity.
  • The collar is stylized into a rhythmic pattern, functioning almost like a mandala around the neck, reinforcing the idea of the figure as a spiritual axis.

4. Conceptual Positioning

  • The handwritten title, The goddess, introduces a deliberate ambiguity: this is not a known deity but an archetypal feminine divinity.
  • The signature “L Neagoe” anchors the work in authorship, reminding the viewer that this is not an archaeological artifact but a modern meditation on mythic identity.

The drawing ultimately operates as a dialogue between cultural memory and personal mythology. It is less about Egypt as a historical civilization and more about the enduring human impulse to create images of the sacred.

Curatorial Note

L. Neagoe’s The Goddess reimagines the visual language of ancient Egypt through a contemporary, introspective lens. The figure’s frontal gaze—clear, blue, and unwavering—breaks from the canonical profile of Egyptian portraiture, signaling a shift from collective archetype to individual presence. The headdress and ornamental collar recall the geometry and symbolism of pharaonic art, yet they are rendered with a modern graphic sensibility, their lines oscillating between precision and expressive spontaneity.

To the left, invented hieroglyphic‑like signs evoke sacred writing without imitating it, situating the work in a space of imaginative archaeology. This is not a historical goddess but a constructed one—a synthesis of cultural memory, spiritual aspiration, and the artist’s own symbolic vocabulary. The handwritten title reinforces this openness, inviting viewers to encounter the figure not as a fixed deity but as an emblem of feminine authority and inner luminosity.

The Goddess stands as a meditation on how myth persists in contemporary consciousness: not as a relic, but as a living form continually reshaped by the artist’s hand and the viewer’s gaze.

SOURCE : COPILOT