In 2014 solo and group exhibitions took place at the Schauwerk in Sindelfingen, at the MAC in Lissone, at the Kunsthalle in Kiel and in the Palladian cellars of Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza. With the exhibition Die Verwindung, mounted at the Emilio Mazzoli Gallery in Modena in January 2013, “the artist ended up punishing what he had composed, thus leading to the inevitable and indispensable murder of painting” (Alberto Zanchetta). The following year, his first solo exhibition was held in a museum: Fegefeuer, Kunsthalle, Tübingen.

A painter and sculptor, his career stands out for his attempt to endanger forms derived from the history of Western culture: in them, the represented body and the pictorial surface are revealed without a break in continuity, and one has the impression that the birth of a new work always involves the sacrifice of an old one.įrom 2010, the first skinning of the pigment appears in his works, a process evidenced in three exhibitions in 2011: Baroque, LARMgalleri, Copenhagen Scoriada, Studio Raffaelli, Trento Imaginifragus, Christian Ehrentraut Gallery, Berlin. Nicola Samorì was born in 1977 in Forlì and graduated in 2004 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Samori explains that exposing the interior of the paint by removing layers of “skin” with a scalpel reveals “a freshness and intensity unknown in the outer tones”. His process involves “skinning” his painted figures with a spatula or paint thinner, placing another image on top and repeating the process until the images merge and signs of erasure and scratches dominate the reworked surface. Nicola Samori's dark, baroque-inspired oil paintings are skillful reproductions of classic portraits and still lifes on canvas, wood or copper, purposefully destroyed to deny classical representation and call into question the painting itself.

His work has been widely praised for its ability to balance traditional painting technique with a contemporary and subjective approach. Samori is known for his ability to create intense and emotional images that explore questions of identity, individuality and belonging. He has been working with a wide variety of techniques and themes, but is especially known for his representations of portraits and human figures.

Nicola Samori is an Italian visual artist known for his paintings and drawings.

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