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Smiling H1 - 1920 x 116
Smiling H1 - 1920 x 116
Marymount - International School Rome

Lawrence Carroll. Folded-up paintings at a new gallery that comes to Rome from Naples.

7 Feb-13 March 2004. Folded-up paintings at a new gallery that comes to Rome from Naples. Tues-Sat 16.30-20.30.

Lengths of distressed canvas lie on the floor in boxes with glass tops, or in glass-topped boxes hanging on the walls. When the artist, an Australian working in Los Angeles, is asked what it is all about, he explains: "They are all folded-up paintings." The hip viewer knows how to answer: "And you cant undo them, and you cant see the paintings." "Right!" nods Carroll, smiling gleefully. His is a right case of classic conceptual chic.

This branch of the well-known Neapolitan avant-garde gallery has just opened on Piazza del Fico, in the very heart of mediaeval and baroque Rome. Close to it is a little vegetable store, its walls lined by the nave attempts of its owner to copy celebrated masterworks. These two extremes the spare ambitious wanting-to-be "with it" art, and the other not even dreaming what "with it" means make an amusing contrast. Edith Schloss

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Address Studio Trisorio, Vicolo delle Vacche 12.

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Lawrence Carroll. Folded-up paintings at a new gallery that comes to Rome from Naples.

Studio Trisorio, Vicolo delle Vacche 12.

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