
Three years after his passing away, the Madre Museum in Naples devotes the first major museum retrospective to Lawrence Carroll. The exhibition – curated by Gianfranco Maraniello – investigates the history and figure of this protagonist of the North American and international art scene, not comparable to the history of the avant-gardes and neo-avant-gardes. The exhibition presents 80 works created during a thirty-year career (from 1985 to 2019), set up in a path that – as in Carroll’s own idea – privileges the relationships between works, space and feelings instead of a paralyzing chronological or thematic classification. Carroll in fact considered his works as physical presences that inhabit the spaces and that meet the observer, entering into a dialogue with him. Each artwork therefore maintains the same imperfection of the human being and to use his own words, a necessary “anchoring to the world”.
From 25 March until 5 September 2022, Madre – Donnaregina contemporary art museum, Naples.
Courtesy Studio la Città – Verona, Ph. Credits Amedeo Benestante