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The work of María Paula Caradonti is original because it does not follow any trend, it can’t be subscribed under any label, |
It usually happens to me when visiting exhibitions and looking
around that I notice the same recipes, identical plans and resolutions
so predictable that it all becomes boring. It’s difficult, very
difficult, to encounter originality in most of the works that can be
frequently found.
In this situation, finding an artist that goes
against all tides, that rescues the value of formal searches and
esthetic criteria, and still being profoundly modern and part of her
time and age, is something worth pointing out.The work of María
Paula Caradonti is original because it does not follow any trend, it
can’t be subscribed under any label, it isn’t influenced by any
fashion. She exercises her proposals out of intuition, with courage to
defend her own image, her instinct, without paying attention to her
surroundings, without stopping to think if it is “good or bad” to do
it. In Neruda’s own words, she follows her inner direction.She
works with an impressive perseverance, in perpetual transformation, but
always keeping a line of work that starts out of a singular sense of
space, of structures inscripted in simple forms, taking guidance from
her own rules of symmetry and color. There’s no narration, no anecdote,
only images which create her own world, her personal iconography, like
mandalas carrying her whole internal energy.That courage that takes
her against the tide she applies it too at the moment of choosing her
techniques: with an impeccable and careful craft she dares with
materials that almost nobody can challenge and hope to come out
successful: she works paint, cork, sequins or canvas with the same
artistic concept, demonstrating that art is not prerogative of any
material, of no “what”, but of an elaborate “how.”Her works provoke
direct, simple and profound sensations. The simplicity of following
one’s own road and enjoying it. Which is the only way of being really
original in the arts.
