Carolina Raquel Antich
dal 18/2/2014 al 29/3/2014
Segnalato da
18/2/2014
Carolina Raquel Antich
Lynch Tham Gallery, New York
Suddenly I felt the river in me. A solo exhibition that marks the debut of sculptural work and new paintings featuring porcelain artworks and a series of canvases, the exhibition is a purview of Antich's longtime fascination with childhood.
Lynch Tham is pleased to announce the following:
– «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, on view at
175 Rivington Street from 19 February to 30 March 2014. 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.
– The Moon is about to fall, a multi-disciplinary installation that brings together a selection
of sculptures, paintings, and drawings by Carolina Raquel Antich at VOLTA NY, Booth
2.22 from 6 to 9 March 2014.
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, Rosario, Argentina, Antich lives and works in Venice. She has exhibited
extensively in Europe and South America. Awards include: Cisneros Foundation Shortlist
2007/8; illy prize Finalist, Rotterdam 2006, Prize for Young Italian Art Finalist (Premio
per la giovane arte italiana) 51st Edition Venice Biennale, 2005; Premio Bevilacqua La
Masa 87 mostra collettiva, 2003.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 6 – 8pm
Lynch Tham Gallery
175 Rivington Street, New York
Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm; Sunday, from 12pm to 6pm; Monday and Tuesday by appointment.
Admission free