Paul Neagu’s complex art practice brings together performance, sculpture, drawing, painting, video, and photography, reflecting the artist’s holistic and metaphysical view on art. Object-making, drawing, and performance can in fact be considered as one entity in Neagu’s philosophy, which embraced the idea that symbolism and metaphor are active possibilities in sculpture. Influenced by the Cubist movement, Constantin Brâncusi, Marcel Duchamp, and Joseph Bueys, Neagu's works express desire in the face of systems that attempt to inhibit it. They have been part of many exhibitions and collections around the world, including The National Museum of Art, Bucharest; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Tate Gallery, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Kontakt Collection, Vienna; the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; New Museum, New York; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; Grand Palais, Paris; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; and the Espace Niemeyer, Paris.

Contrary to certain ideas about sculpture in the 1970s, Neagu argued that sculpture does not have to refer only to the means of production but can find a language to express more complex ideas, even if this can only be on a symbolic level. In 1975, Paul Neagu made his first Hyphen, initially consisting of a triangular structure assembled using the traditional methods of Romanian furniture making. Neagu quickly understood the great metaphysical potential of this triangular construction and developed from it a comprehensive anthropo-cosmic view, which, in parallel with some of his contemporaries, proposed a spiritual rebirth for the ills of modern society and man.