Madre Museum 

Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, Lawrence Carroll is the artist's first anthological exhibition since his death in 2019. Lawrence Carroll (Melbourne 1954 - Cologne 2019) was a major figure in the American art scene and, at the same time, a cosmopolitan interpreter of poetic perspectives that cannot be relegated to the history of the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements. His work is not part of a specific artistic trend, but investigates the very possibility of painting after and beyond the primacy of the established schools and theories that dominated the post-World War II period. The display requires an attempt to correspond to the characteristic way in which his exhibitions have been staged, which have always favoured the spatial and sentimental relationships of inhabiting places rather than the chronological succession or the thematic compartmentalisation of works into paralysing classifications, as Carroll himself has claimed, declaring: "In my painting the forms are always changing, their very location in space changes; this restlessness of thought and spirit is what in a certain sense makes my works 'alive' and keeps them moving". The exhibition is realised in collaboration with Lucy Jones Carroll for the Lawrence Carroll Archive.

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House of Art České Budějovic

This exhibition, curated by Michal Škoda, which stands on foundations erected while Lawrence Carroll was still with us, was made possible thanks to the contribution of his wife Lucy Jones Carroll. Though small in scale, its retrospective character presents a dignified look at the work of an extraordinary and respected artist, but above all an exceptional human being.
Lawrence Carroll’s intimate works are typically characterized by a sense of quietude and melancholy. They take on the character of objects and possess an ordinariness that grows out of their absolute liberation from any form of illustrativeness and relationship to a particular space. His works form constellations, for instance light and shadow, scale – space, color – shape, object and void.

Time plays an important role in Carroll’s art. Many of his works were created over long periods of time, in some cases even in different studios. Carroll lets himself be guided by time, by waiting and calmness. He lets his works “mature.” He works with unusual materials and his paintings, many of which are transformed into objects that become something like witnesses to time, leave behind traces on the canvas.

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