These works can be seen as an attack on a specific period of art, or they can be more widely interpreted as a ferocious dismissal of all types of art, sweeping the whole concept of art practice to one side. Sometimes he also removes the faces of portraits from other supports and attaches them flipped over on to new heads to create voided 'holes' as in Il veleno nelle ombre (2010). The wounding is assisted by his admiration for modernist artists like Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri, who are known for 'mutilating' basic painting support materials, and also his interest in moulage, where he creates hideous skin diseases or injuries. It is an emotional and physical attack on the cumulative weight of art history pressing down on contemporary European artists, believing in the power of 'irresponsibility' and 'wounding' to hit back-a retaliation in search of freedom.

Samori ridicules those civilised painted images by turning them into objects of pity or revulsion, as evidenced by Seer (2011), Agnese (2009), June 27 (crowned) (2014), and Ciclope (2020). Similar artists.He specialises in a form of aggressive baroque art that humiliates the neoclassical tradition exemplified by 17th-century Old Masters in the Netherlands and Bologna. Nicola Samori has 0 artist signature examples available in our database. askART lists Nicola Samori in 0 of its research Essays. Galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Nicola Samori as either 'Wanted' or 'For Sale' There are 0Īrtworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers askART's database currently holds 74 auction lots for Nicola Samori (of whichĦ2 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)Īrtist artworks for sale and wanted.

He lives and works in Bagnacavallo and Trentino, Italy.Īrtist auction records. Putting histocial figures in chiaorscuro on wood, canvas or copper plates, he then removes whole layers of paint to the point where facial expressions become obscured, thus opening the view toward underlying layers and the ground of the art work. He creates portraits using techniques of the Italian Baroque. Nicola Samori is known for Mixed media painting, drawing.īorn in Forlì on May 13, 1977, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and has exhibited since 1998 both in Italy and abroad. Nicola Samori (Born 1977) is active/lives in Italy.

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