Lansarea

28.06.2018

Inaugrarea galeriei, cu lucrări de pictură – Nadina Pascariu, acompaniate de saz – Daniel Pop, și o introducere din partea prof. univ. dr. Petru Lucaci.

The opening of the gallery, with Nadina Pascariu paintings and Daniel Pop musical performance, and an introduction from prof. dr. Petru Lucaci.

Photo credit Ana-Maria Tăgîrță. NPG 2018 all rights reserved.

Photo credit Ana-Maria Tăgîrță. NPG 2018 all rights reserved.

Reportaj Senso TV, realizator Bogdana Contraș

Senso TV reportage, filmmaker Bogdana Contraș

Nadina Pascariu Gallery is a space (both a physical and virtual one) of contemporary art, on the borderland between classicism and modernity. We do not approve of what is superfluous, propagandistic or commercial, otherwise we have no limits regarding the artistic field, age, ethnicity, nationality, gender – but especially the genius of the promoted authors, the spatio-temporal nonconformism of exhibitions, book launches, workshops and press releases and, last but not least, of ideas and ideals, which excludes any ideology. A gallery based on painting to which are added, drawn like a magnet, graphics, illustration, photography, literature, video art, music and, of course, critical and self-critical commentary. We welcome artists, art lovers, collectors, readers, music lovers, children.

Having interdisciplinarity as its specific feature, the term "gallery" that refers to the corridors decorated with paintings is reconfigured into an elementary concept like Dao, with multiple meanings: a space of interconnections - between artists, between them and the public, between new and old... noting that dialogue, direct contact, tranquility are increasingly necessary in an informational society, in which so much image is consumed at such a precarious level. So much "information". In which the world is too rushed and "besieged" to taste "peace". To remember that:

“…Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. Body and soul therefore have an intensely historical character and find no proper place in what is new, in things that have just come into being. That is to say, our ancestral components are only partly at home in such things. We are very far from having finished completely with the Middle Ages, classical antiquity, and primitivity, as our modern psyches pretend. Nevertheless, we have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future with ever wilder violence the farther it takes us from our roots. Once the past has been breached, it is usually annihilated, and there is no stopping the forward motion. But it is precisely the loss of connection with the past, our uprootedness, which has given rise to the “discontents of civilization” and to such a flurry and haste that we live more in the future and its chimerical promises of a golden age than in the present, with which our whole evolutionary background has not yet caught up…” (C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Bucharest, Ed. Humanitas, 1996, p. 243)

Without grand illusions regarding the resonance of our approach, we believe that the quality versus quantity ratio specific to Art will remain as it was. Thus, those interested will be accommodated in the small apartment on Braziliei Street, which for a number of years functioned as a painting studio and which has now become a space for exhibitions and meetings. As it was highlighted at the inauguration, it is a space that invites closeness. Or, in the words of the president of the Union of Plastic Artists of Romanian, Mr. Petru Lucaci, “it creates a very special relationship and this exchange of opinions is needed, […] an artist’s apartment where objects from the intimacy of creation coexist with the artworks, perhaps the props that are represented in the works, multiple forms of understanding that I believe bring the two worlds closer: the world of creation and the world of those who feed on the cultural phenomenon and need it”.

Visitors will find here a permanent collection of paintings and drawings that include works signed by the artist Devis Grebu. Alongside this established name, we will introduce you to new names, of the artists we have set out to represent and of those we will discover in the future. Mostly traditionalists for whom the artificialization of life in the landscape of the information society is nothing more than an additional opportunity to restore the connection to the senses and intellect with the original source, through a creation that corresponds to their own soul structure.

NPG, July 25th, 2018

Textul original, în limba română, pe pagina About NPG.