Carolina Antoniadis (born in Rosario in 1961) formed part of the Group of the X, in which several of the outstanding young painters and sculptures of these days were revealed. She belongs to the same – and new – artistic scene. Her first individual exhibition was held in 1987, fortunately apart from circumstantial and promotions, prophetical fingers and without trying to institutionalize her youth.
The universe of her plastic preferences could be noted in that exhibition. And – in our opinion – it is precisely the world “plastic” that defines a point of interest in her paintings, which vindicated the memory of the nabis for their tendency to small scale experiences, of rooms’ corners, walls, furniture, common places.
In the present exhibition (Galería Atica, Libertad 1240) – without drifting away from those interests -, which are, all in all, related to the revivalist mood of our fin de siècle culture – her painting has a special spontaneity not opposed to method or systemization. Her creative process seems to mix the handling of sophisticated ornamentations, formal simplicity and individualist – but interiorized – irony of figurative representations.
It is an experience related to the “childhood memory” and “places that are familiar, quotidian, to which a great emotion is attached”, as Laura Batkis wrote in the presentation text.
Anyhow, she is an artist who is free from any perverse manipulation of symbols. What identifies her – from this viewpoint – is the almost “innocent” combination of a strong subjective mediation and the opening to investigation – based more on intuition than on intellect – of some sources of modernism: Klimt, but Freud and Nietzsche as well, Vuillard, but also Bergson.
As for the rest, Antoniadis does not seem to be subject to opportunisms or anxieties. Supporting an optimistic hypothesis it can be stated that her attitude is a good one for present times.