Buchmann Galerie is pleased to announce the exhibition Traces of Memory, which brings together works by Lawrence Carroll and Martin Disler for the first time.
Martin Disler and Lawrence Carroll did not know each other personally, yet they shared a life characterised by constant movement and an unceasing commitment to their artistic practice.
Both were nomadic figures who repeatedly established their studios in new places, travelled extensively and remained open to new influences and sources of inspiration.
Lawrence Carroll lived in Los Angeles until the mid-1980s, before moving to New York, where he remained for several years. After periods in Malibu and a return to Los Angeles, he lived in Venice, Italy from 2007 onwards and, for a time, also maintained a studio in Marquette, Michigan. In 2005, he moved to Bolsena, Italy and, a few years later, also to Tivoli in New York State, maintaining residences in both places, each offering an environment for concentration. He died in 2019 at the age of 64.
During the 1980s, Martin Disler maintained studios in Zurich, Milan, Paris, Amsterdam, Samedan (Switzerland) and New York, before moving to Les Planchettes in the Swiss Jura in 1988.