The surface is the result of layers of black painted film stretched over casual blotches of colour, in the attempt to unbind tone and light/shade contrast physically in order to rebind them optically. Up until 2006 he produced several dozen frontal female figures, almost salms thrown into the spectator, fleshing out the flatness of much contemporary photography and toning down the glamour. The subjects are remote inventions that refer to nothing other than themselves: copperplate nightmares zooming in on the body. In 2002 he stripped his work of all its narrative markers to give way to the first great torn posters, printed with monotype on canvas, along with his works on metal, oriented from the start towards a reappraisal of 17th-century Dutch and Bolognese painting. His early solo shows of note include that held at Santa Maria delle Croci (Ravenna) and at the Tafe Gallery in Perth (Australia). After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, the artist has exhibited since 1998 both in Italy and abroad. Nicola Samorì was born in Forlì on 13th May 1977. Origine dell’Occhio, 2011, oil on wood, cm 40 x 30 cm.Īgnese, 2009, oil on copper, 100 x 100 cm. Hans Holbein – écorché (estasi), 2010, oil on copper, 100 x 100 cm. (del nascondimento), oil on copper, 100 x 100 cm. 1I Veleno nelle ombre, 2010, oil on wood, 40 x 30 cm.
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