Samorì, focusing on the sacred as an ambiguous concept and on the unrepresentable, develops his art starting from the icons of the history of art, probing them, “profaning them” but paradoxically without disrespecting them: a material transformation is taking place that reveals us how the transcendent can escape us, not have a reassuring face to rely on, because we human beings often let ourselves be voluntarily enveloped by darkness, drowning in depths that we hope are suddenly illuminated by the light that we will see. The artist, like his creatures, sometimes feels comforted in thinking about himself as an involuntary man, therefore innocent, who paints and sculptures so as not to forget, because death, as Seneca said, always threatens, it is a present that at every moment conquers a larger portion of us. Samorì offers visitors a black monolith that constitutes his artistic production, made up of concepts and symbols from Baroque and Realist art, especially Spanish and Dutch, which are transformed into hyper-realistic figures that act as new models, because disease, decay, deformation, are tools for knowledge, a mystical practice, a vanity, from which no one escapes. On the other hand, if it were not dark, it would not be either sacred or divine.

We find it comforting to see there are still some interesting painters out there in times overruled by photography, works like these makes us hope for the better future of paintings in whole, as an art form.The Ravenna-based artist Nicola Samorì fears death and the decay of faces and bodies and tells us so without too many mysteries, while trying to probe the unknowable, especially in relation to the sacred. I like taking the image to a breaking point, putting its form into danger.” My attention is focused on the last moments of a work when a form of exhausted, at-the-limit beauty is impressed in it.

“ My works are planes of temporal accumulation and push the image towards its dissolution. We would love to see these on the walls of some creepy chateau!

The feeling of combined daunt and mystery makes them particularly interesting. The subjects are like echos of their former selves, any distinguishing features are blurred or melting away as if they are torn between two worlds. Her haunting baroque style paintings are situated in a somewhat surreal past tense. Italian artist, Nicola Samori, depicts the subject of deconstruction of beauty, framed in dark, post-modern grotesque.

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