Carolina Raquel Antich “De Pronto Sentí El Río En Mí. Suddenly I Felt the River in Me”
LYNCH THAM
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LYNCH THAM presents «De pronto sentí el río en mí» «Suddenly I felt the river in me», a solo exhibition that marks the debut of sculptural work and new paintings by Carolina Raquel Antich. Featuring porcelain artworks and a series of canvases, the exhibition is a purview of Antich’s longtime fascination with childhood. The title is inspired by a quote from the Argentinian poet Juan L. Ortiz.
Through pictorial research, Antich recently embraced a sculptural extension of her paintings. From a study derived from thoughts, readings, preparatory drawings, and clay prototypes, Antich casts her subject matter – nature, figures and elements in her paintings, into sculptural form, poignantly magnifying the delicateness and fragility of her subjects and the situations they are involved in.
While the artist’s paintings often evoke an allegorical worldview, depicting children in a territory where there is no fear, a free zone full of nuances and beauty, fleeting yet passive, the sculptural work brings to the fore spaces of protection and refuge, while underscoring the autistic condition of her subjects in their extreme mode of concentration. Through the narrative of childhood, the artist presents a compromise between the child and adult space, the constant comparison between the inside and outside, vulnerability and endurance that allows us to transform from childhood to adulthood.
I am fascinated by the world of children, by their way of looking at everything around them close-up and from a distance. The intimacy of their gaze, which you can guess or try to imagine, has been the focus of my work for some time. It’s an uneasy but unhurried gaze, a way of being in the world under the sign of delicacy and circumspection. Translated into art, painting becomes a privileged contact with reality, a meeting place where one can reflect on our times and on the meaning of painting itself.
My figures are not part of a portrait gallery. Through them, I try to evoke distant memories that belong to all of us somehow. These memories conceal moments of rare intensity, solitary epiphanies that can take form as an inaugural vision, an important discovery, or an unexpected encounter with oneself. The backdrop hints barely at nature, and a certain sobriety in technique seems to second this dimension of isolation.
- Carolina Raquel Antich
Born in 1970, Rosaria, Argentina, Antich lives and works in Venice. She has exhibited extensively in Europe and South America. Awards include: Cisnero Foundation Shortlist 2007/8; illy prize Finalist, Rotterdam 2006, Prize for Young Italian Art Finalist (Premio perl a giovane arte italians) 51st Edition Venice Biennale, 2005; Premio Bevilacqua La Masa 87 mostra collettiva, 2003.
[Image: Carolina Raquel Antich, Suddenly I felt the river in me, 2014, Acrylic on linen, 14 ¼ x 13 ½ inches (36 x 34.3 cm), framed, 21 x 20 ½ inches (53 x 52 cm)]
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from February 19, 2014 to March 30, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-02-19 from 18:00 to 20:00