A courageous project – an exhibition conceived as a single work of art, with nine rooms on the second floor of the Museo Correr housing some forty different pieces.
Lawrence Carroll is an American artist of Australian origin who now works in Venice. This exhibition is not an attempt to provide a critical pigeonhole for his 25-year career; nor does it aim to present works in chronological order. Instead, the exhibition itself is a creative work, with the artist freely expressing himself in various site-specific installations that are adapted to the size of each individual room. Various strands link neighbouring rooms; overall, there is a continuing shift in visual and spatial perception, with an exploration of different materials and themes. Placed against the walls, in the corners or on the floor, these works of varying size comprise both identifiable objects and more abstract content. The overall effect is one of great poetic impact.

In an age dominated by technology, Lawrence Carroll’s art is the direct product of an individual sensibility, of the artists own hands and vision. It is the fruit of the perceived necessity for the objects of visual communication to be imbued with humanity.
Carroll’s avowed influences are: Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg, for their use of colour and exploration of memory;

the Minimalists, for their simplicity of form and exploitation of the relation between object and space; and, most importantly of all, Giorgio Morandi. In his own work, Carroll continues the Italian artist’s ever deeper exploration of the complexity within apparently simple and humble objects of daily life. Like Morandi, Carroll even makes the stretchers for his canvasses.