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.
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
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