The artist, like his creatures, sometimes feels comforted in thinking about himself as an involuntary man, therefore innocent, who paints and sculptures so as not to forget, because death, as Seneca said, always threatens, it is a present that at every moment conquers a larger portion of us. Samorì offers visitors a black monolith that constitutes his artistic production, made up of concepts and symbols from Baroque and Realist art, especially Spanish and Dutch, which are transformed into hyper-realistic figures that act as new models, because disease, decay, deformation, are tools for knowledge, a mystical practice, a vanity, from which no one escapes. On the other hand, if it were not dark, it would not be either sacred or divine.

Nicola Samorì’s second solo exhibition at the Christian Ehrentraut Gallery in Berlin is scheduled to take place in November 2013.The Ravenna-based artist Nicola Samorì fears death and the decay of faces and bodies and tells us so without too many mysteries, while trying to probe the unknowable, especially in relation to the sacred. In the works specially created for the gallery spaces, Nicola Samorì has actually wanted to unsettle, disfigure and deform painting by showing its haemophiliac aspect, of gory metamorphosis”. In this latest exhibition, which is just finished, “the artist has ended up chastising what he had created and has thus come to the unavoidable and absolutely irreducible killing of painting. Among his solo exhibitions, the followings are to be mentioned-Dei Miti Memorie at the Central TAFE Gallery in Perth (2003), Imaginifragus at the Christian Ehrentraut Gallery in Berlin (2011), The Venerable Abject at the Ana Cristea Gallery in New York (2012), Fegefeuer der Meisterwerke at the TübingenKunsthalle (2012) and Die Verwindung at the Galleria Emilio Mazzoli in Modena, Italy (2013). He went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna where he graduated in 2004. Here the opening of the depicted body and of the pictorial surface alike are represented without a smooth transition.īorn in Forlì back in 1977, Nicola Samorì lives and works in Bagnacavallo. His artistic career shows his attempt to endanger forms derived from the history of Western culture, recurring and dense expressions which live, sometimes involuntarily, inside our unconscious. How long does an image resist its disappearance? This is the question the works by Italian artist Nicola Samorì measure against.

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