Newspaper #12 Ghost House. Museo Mambo

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And, when some bulbs are lit and they are physically integrated into the painting with their electrical wires, the age old tradition of studies on the value of light in the composition is called into question for proposing works that are not illuminated by external devices, but which exercise their own condition of visibility by reverberating in space and not representing it

Gianfranco Maraniello

They are placed on walls and in space to meet other bodies. They are among people and they are at their height, they are not presented in dramatic productions in search of an artificial aura. They correspond to archetypes of a world at hand; they are available even in the nonrepudiated analogy to benches, shelves and cabinets for natural accommodation and continuity with the common and daily gestures of every man.

Gianfranco Maraniello

“ I live my life in search of evidence, to find out who I am, where I have been, and where I am going. It is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.� This is how Lawrence Carroll described the work that is presented to us today, as a long and consistent theory of objects and pictures which are almost white, centred on memory and with the sense of a loneliness that is restless but not painful. His solo exhibition at MAMbo confirms this, demonstrating a continuity of work that is considerably rare and a consistency which becomes clearer as it develops.

Angela Vettese

When returning to the studio after some time away I need to find a way back into my work, my routine. It always takes me some time, I am not an artist who can just slip back into my work right away. I need to find my way. It has been this way for me since I began on this road some time ago.

When I first started traveling with my work in the late 80’s I would often travel with small paintings in my suitcase. I was traveling alone mostly and when arriving at a hotel in a foreign city I would hang a small painting of mine in the room. I would also move the furniture around, often moving the desk if there was one, in front of the window facing out into the world. When I would return back to the hotel and see a painting of mine hanging on the wall and my books scattered on my desk I would feel this is where I belonged. These simple acts would ease my anxiety of being somewhere new and make me feel at home. This is the same for me in my studios and when I create an installation of my paintings.

Lawrence Carroll

“ghost house” Museo MAMbo , Bologna Italy Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello Dec 11, 2014- April 2015 Newspaper # 12 printed Galeati S.r.l. via Selice, 187-189 - 40026 Imola BO ITALY designed by Lawrence Carroll

Fotografie dell’allestimento presso il MAMbo / Photographs of the installation at MAMbo Antonio Maniscalco Fotografie di Lawrence Carroll e dello studio / Photographs of Lawrence Carroll and the artist’s studios and documentation Lucy Jones Carroll Testi di / Texts by Lawrence Carroll, Gianfranco Maraniello, Angela Vettese

Un ringraziamento speciale / Special thanks

“gardens”

il team del MAMbo

the studio is the place for me that I feel good , for the most part. Not everyday, but most.

It is a place to roam, forget, drift and wait shut out the noise.

Galerie Karsten Greve Galerie Buchmann Laura Mattioli Gianfranco D’Amato Alfredo Capuozzo Gaetano La Montagna Silvestro Guarino Flavio Ottieri Richard Milazzo Lucy Jones Carroll- for all she gives to so many.

Roberto DePol Franco DaVino Giulia Cacciuttolo Giula Constanza Lanza Luke Whitehouse Shannon Whitehouse

Openings, shows, things like that last just a very short time.

But the studio is constant , rooted and it is our place, and how fortunate are we who have that.

It is our garden.

Size of the garden does not matter. what is yields does.

How we weed it and nurture it through the seasons of life I believe we all have our own garden somewhere there inside us, I am reminded of this often by the beauty and kindness I witness in the lives of strangers and what they yield . studio- Bolsena, Italy Jan 18, 2015.

Roberto De Pol http://robertodepol.altervista.org