Your works appear baroque: black background and the light effects. It is the enigma of desire.Ĭourtesy of the artist and EIGEN+ART (Berlin/Leipzig) I can’t explain why I get upset in front of a painting, a sculpture or a drawing it’s something that doesn’t happen to me in front of a game, a concert, or reading. Originally, there was something unknown, an obsession that surpasses the test of the years. When did you take your first steps into the art world and what pushed you forward?Īs soon as I assumed the standing position. Between one commitment and another, we were able to reach Nicola Samorì for a FRONTRUNNER exclusive. We read the silence of his paintings, an apparent calm, where the light is almost absent…it is the darkness that gives depth to the image in which technique prevails.

In his sculptures, the hand becomes one with the material in this case, each figure he chooses loses its origin to assume a new identity.

To bring out the essence of the figure, Samorì intervenes on the canvas with either his bare hands or with a “scalpel” to lift a layer of paint, as if it were human skin. Inspired predominantly by the Baroque style of the Spanish painter José de Ribera, Samorì powerfully, rapidly upsets every work by mutilating the impressed image each time producing a completely different result. His work was shown at with EIGEN + ART (Berlin/Leizpig) at this year’s Art Basel, and his artistic vision from childhood to the present has – quite clearly – matured, refined by his training at the Accademia Belle Arti Bologna. In fact, in each artwork, sculpture or painting, he harbors a strong and restless sensitivity that takes shape every time he confronts a figure. Born in 1977 in Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna, Italian artist Nicola Samorì describes his work with an exclusively tormented approach.

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