Nicola Samor

How long does an image resist its disappearance? This is the question the works by Italian artist Nicola Samorì measure against.
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. Here the opening of the depicted body and of the pictorial surface alike are represented without a smooth transition.

Born in Forlì back in 1977, Nicola Samorì lives and works in Bagnacavallo. He went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna where he graduated in 2004. 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).

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. 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”.

Nicola Samorì’s second solo exhibition at the Christian Ehrentraut Gallery in Berlin is scheduled to take place in November 2013.