While painting tends to sculpture, acquiring a three-dimensionality given by the violent and refined breakup carried out by the artist, in parallel the sculpture seems to liquefy or dig itself from the inside, almost looking for the dematerialization of matter and form itselfįrom dissolution to rebirth, through the continuous research that from the tragedy of death yearns for life, reached here in art, paradoxically, with the partial destruction of what was previously created. With violent interventions, he punches, scratches, literally peels the paint through a sudden or meticulous gesture, giving life to new works that have their roots in the tradition of art history and then arrive at the expression of torment with a contemporary language. 1977 Follow 2.4k Followers Bio Nicola Samori’s dark, Baroque -inspired oil paintings are skillful reproductions of classical portraits and still lifes on canvas, wood, or copper, purposefully destroyed to negate classical representation and question painting itself. Starting from the meticulous copy of the works of great masters, especially from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where the clash between light and shadow dominates, Samorì transforms them and reinterprets them with the troubled spirit of our century.
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