Edited by Gianfranco Maraniello
arte’m, Napoli, 2025
“In my painting, forms are always shifting — their very placement in space changes. This restlessness of thought and spirit is what, in a certain sense, makes my works ‘alive’ and keeps them in motion.” — Lawrence Carroll
Three years after his passing, the Madre in Naples dedicated its first major museum retrospective to Lawrence Carroll. Carroll regarded his works as physical presences inhabiting spaces, encountering the viewer and entering into dialogue with them. Each of his pieces retains the imperfection inherent to being human — its own necessary “anchorage to the world.” Realized in collaboration with Lucy Jones Carroll for the Lawrence Carroll Archive and curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, the exhibition shed light on the singular journey of a leading figure in the North American and international art scene: 80 works made over more than thirty years of practice (from 1985 to 2019), now documented with generous graphic scope in an artist’s book that foregrounds the relationships between the works, space, and feeling.
A large-format artist’s book with generous graphic breadth retraces more than thirty years of practice (from 1985 to 2019) by a leading figure of the North American and international art scene: 80 works exhibited in 2022 in the major monographic survey organized at Museo Madre.