Nicola Samorì, “In Principio era la Fine (In the Beginning was the End)”, 2016, Oil on Copper Plate, 40 x 30 cm
Born at the northern Emilia-Romagna city of Forli in May of 1977, Nicola Samori is an Italian artist trained in the traditions of seventeenth-century Renaissance painting and sculpture. His figurative works translates these techniques into contemporary images.
Samori, interested in art from an early age, was encouraged by his family to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Using both realism and chiaroscuro, he pushes his imagery to it dissolution, taking its form to a breaking point. Samori’s images are dark, baroque canvas works whose surfaces have often been altered by the physical manipulation of scraping, diluting, tearing and slashing.
Nicola Samori has consistently exhibited his work in group and solo shows throughout Italy and the world since 1998. Solo exhibitions include the 2002 “Enigma Uomo: Il fuoco della Rinascita” at Bologna”s L’Ariete Artecomtemporanea; the 2003 “Del Miti Memorie” at the Tafe Gallery in Perth, Australia; and the 2008 “Pandemie” at the Galleria Allegretti Contemporanea in Bergamo. Samori’s work was included as part of the Italian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
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