He has used both painting and sculpture to repeatedly explore this concern. Nicola Samorì’s use of peeling paint takes us to heart of one of his fascinations: Human skin and what lies beneath it. So, in synthesis, the artist is reversing the traditional historical process. Historically artists created form out of material Samorì is now involved in reversing this process by creating a form and then partially taking it back to its material state. The sense of movement when we view the picture is evident as one feels the form has stepped back into its larval state. The largest work in the exhibition is a painting on linen where Samorì recreates L’Âge Mûr but rewritten as if it was seen through the mediation of a small model made with re-used materials. The title L’Âge Mûr is inspired by a well-known sculpture by the French artist Camille Claudel. His pictures oscillate between ‘wounds’ made on the original painting and the loss of the image. Samorì’s reinterpretation of Ribera's The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew (Ebbro, 2011) is seen as if in a memory, but instead of the saint's skin being flayed the artist peels back the rich crimson paint from the canvas to give a totally contemporary stance to the work. Siliqua, 2007 and more recently, Samorì has turned his attention to re-examining famous artworks from the Western canon, notably the paintings of Spanish seventeenth century master Jusepe Ribera. Although his starting point will be a brilliantly executed copy of the original, his concern is essentially to apply a contemporary painting and sculptural approach to the works as a comment on the original piece. Der Neid, 2005 other works were constructed as if assembled from archeological remnants – e.g. The gallery will showcase new marble and wax sculptures as well as Samorì’s latest series of paintings on canvas, copper, linen and wood.Īt its essence, the whole corpus of Nicola Samorì's work is a profound meditation on time and the fragility of existence: His earliest works appeared to be paintings of X-rays of individuals as if seen in a morgue – e.g. Rosenfeld porcini is proud to present L’Âge Mûr, a first UK solo exhibition of Italian artist Nicola Samorì, which follows his initial participation in the sculpture exhibition Memory and in The Continuation of Romance, a group exhibition exploring the renaissance of painting in contemporary art.
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