g h o s t h o u s e g h o s t h o u s e

I dwell in a lonely

house

i know. . .

robert frost

the footpath down

to

the

well

is healed

And, when some bulbs are lit and they are physicallyintegrated into the painting with their electrical wires, the age oldtradition of studies on the value of light in the composition iscalled into question for proposing works that are not illuminated byexternal devices, but which exercise their own condition of visibilityby 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 Ihave been, and where I am going. It is not about the destination,it’s about the journey.” This is how Lawrence Carroll describedthe work that is presented to us today, as a long and consistent theoryof objects and pictures which are almost white, centred on memory andwith the sense of a loneliness that is restless but not painful. His soloexhibition at MAMbo confirms this, demonstrating a continuity of workthat is considerably rare and a consistency which becomes clearer as itdevelops.

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 mesome 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 forme since I began on this road some time ago.

When I first started traveling with my work in the late 80’s I wouldoften travel with small paintings in my suitcase. I was traveling alonemostly and when arriving at a hotel in a foreign city I would hang asmall painting of mine in the room. I would also move the furniturearound, often moving the desk if there was one, in front of the windowfacing out into the world. When I would return back to the hotel andsee a painting of mine hanging on the wall and my books scatteredon my desk I would feel this is where I belonged. These simple actswould ease my anxiety of being somewhere new and make me feel athome. This is the same for me in my studios and when I create aninstallation of my paintings.

Lawrence Carroll

“ghost house”

Museo MAMbo , Bologna ItalyCurated by Gianfranco MaranielloDec 11, 2014- April 2015

Newspaper # 12printed Galeati S.r.l.via Selice, 187-189 - 40026 Imola BO ITALY

designed by Lawrence Carroll

Un ringraziamento speciale / Special thanks

il team del MAMbo

Galerie Karsten GreveGalerie Buchmann

Laura Mattioli

Gianfranco D’AmatoAlfredo CapuozzoGaetano La MontagnaSilvestro GuarinoFlavio Ottieri

Richard Milazzo

Lucy Jones Carroll- for all she gives to so many.Roberto DePolFranco DaVinoGiulia CacciuttoloGiula Constanza LanzaLuke WhitehouseShannon Whitehouse

Fotografie dell’allestimento presso il MAMbo /Photographs of the installation at MAMboAntonio Maniscalco

Fotografie di Lawrence Carroll e dello studio /Photographs of Lawrence Carroll and the artist’s studios and documentationLucy Jones Carroll

Testi di / Texts byLawrence Carroll, Gianfranco Maraniello, Angela Vettese

“gardens”

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 waitshut out the noise.

Openings, shows, things like that last just a very short time.But the studio is constant , rootedand 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 itthrough the seasons of life

I believe we all have our own gardensomewhere there inside us,I am reminded of this oftenby the beauty and kindness I witnessin the lives of strangers and what they yield .

studio- Bolsena, Italy Jan 18, 2015.

Roberto De Pol

http://robertodepol.altervista.org