neal beggs - TAG Fine Arts
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neal beggs - TAG Fine Arts
NEAL BEGGS Lives and works in Paris, France Education 1996 – 1998 1992 – 1995 MFA Glasgow School of Art BA (Hons) Sheffield Hallam University Selected Solo Exhibitions 2011 2011 2011 2010 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2006 2006 2004 2004 2004 2004 2003 2002 2001 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Shortcut, Petit Kursaal, Besançon From our house to the summit of Europe, Maison populaire, Montreuil Still not out of the woods, Gallery Aliceday, Brussels if muhammad, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, Nantes Lonesome in the desert, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Château-Gontier Children of the voyage, Elisa Platteau Gallery, Brussels Belgium is not a road, Netwerk, Center for contemporary art, Aalst The Périades Bivouac, White Office, Tours Neal Beggs, Rayon Frair, Tours Dear Prudence [pac], Place Royale, Mont des arts Kunstberg, Brussels Starman, Le Bonheur, Brussels The Social Contract, 48 rue de Montmorency, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris Real Time, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes Five problems in Art Today [pac], Domaine Chamarande, Chamarande The Suburb [pac], Fontenay-Le-Comte, Pays de la Loire Why do you look at me, Transpalette, Emmetrop, Bourges There are no mountains in Saint Nazaire, Le Grand Café, Centre d’art Contemporain, Saint Nazaire Surfaceaction, Galerie La Sous-sol, Paris Adult Pass, Zoo Gallery, Nantes Bike Race, King Tuts, Glasgow Corridor, CCA, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow Dead Flat Vertical, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Take a running leap, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Track Error, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 The Art of Mapping, TAG Fine Arts, London Between the devil and the deep blue sea, Galerie Melanie Rio, Nantes Tracing Mobility, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin l’Espace n’était … dimension intérieure, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac La cabane au bout du jardin, l’Orangerie, Parc Elisabeth, Bastogne Pour une république des rêves, Crac Alsace, Altkirch Un vide noir grésille, RIVP, Paris The Survivors, itsourplayground.com, internet exhibition Hors Pistes 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 Mappamundi, Berardo Museum - Foundation, Lisbon Plutôt que rien, Maison populaire de Montreuil, Paris Death to Delawab (Shipsides & Beggs), Delawab, Belfast Nomadisme, Hangar á Bananes, Nantes Geopoetiques, College Guillaume Apollinaire, Le Tholy Collective, Gallery Aliceday, Brussels Preview 2010, White Corners, Bourges Concourse de monuments 2, ENSA Paris-Malaquairs / Espace Callot, Paris Copacabana n’existe pas!, Galerie de l’École Régionale des Beaux-arts, Besançon Surfaceaction, Pôle culturel Intercommunal, Pau Let’s pick the cherries first, Elisa Platteau Gallery, Brussels Surfaceaction, MacVal, Paris Faux Frères and… Galerie In Situe and Galerie InSi2, Aalst Dialogue, CRAC: Languedoc – Roussillon, Sète Seven, Elisa Platteau Gallery, Brussels The Hanging, Galway Arts Centre, Galway Users End, Be-Part, Waregem Pilot / 101 Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan Pilot, Yokahama, Japan It’s not fair – Le monde, CC Belgica, Huis van Winckel, Dendermonde Afinitats Electives, Centre d’Art la Panera, Spain Attention avant d’entrer, École des beaux-arts de Tours, Tours Stardust, MAC/VAL, Paris 4 jours du volupük, Le Lolupük, Tours Biennale de Lyon, Lyon AIDS benefit exhibition, Yvon Lambert Galerie, Paris Mouvements d’égarement, Mains d’Œuvres, Paris Pilot 3, Chelsea School of Art & Design, London Pilot 3, Fondazione Bevilaqua la Masa, Venice Nebuleuses, Lieu d’Image et d’Art, Grenoble Antipodes, FRAC Lorraine, Metz Noir, Sainte-Croix-Vallée-Française, Cévennes Public Collections Frac Lorraine, Metz | Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (Nantes) | Frac Franch-Compte, Besancon | Domaine Chamarande, Paris About the Artist Neal Beggs refuses to separate art and life: for him, the processes that structure his own experiences can be directly brought to bear on his work. Much of his art is informed by his love of mountaineering. The discipline of climbing demands an intimate understanding of the landscape and our connection to it, and these concerns recur throughout his creative work. Beggs’ Star Maps question our understanding of the world, and the way we see and document it. The paintings look like records of the night sky. In fact, they are terrestrial maps of our Earth, systematically painted over so that only the peaks of hills and mountains show through. Beggs was inspired by the Dead Sea Scrolls, whose ancient characters reminded him simultaneously of mountain maps and star system diagrams. His work picks out the geographical summits where earth and sky meet, reminding us that we navigate by both (seamen historically relied on constellations and the North Star, as much as worldly maps.) They also deliberately disrupt the cartographic systems that we have evolved and relied upon over centuries, forcing us to see the world from a new perspective without our standard referents.