The works succeed in materially exposing the sight beyond our seeing, upending the modernist argument of figuration as illusory. 01, 2022 Van Ham Kunstauktionen Kln (Cologne), DE SAMORI, NICOLA 1977 Forl/Italy Title: 'Camozzi'.Date: 2010. 304: Nicola Samori: Camozzi Est: 3,000 - 5,000 View sold prices Jun. Technique: Alabaster and red pigment, on metalbase. Christ’s deposed body covered in plastic communicates with a painting of the Christ child, in which the central character is covered over in wipes of paint and incarnated in a mere blotch of yellow. SAMORI, NICOLA 1977 Forl/Italy Title: Eraser. An unfamiliar female form with bulbous extremeties (Fondamenta della Carne) sits across from a fragmented butterfly collection (Abito indenne) with a copper underbelly. These paintings defend themselves in their darkness, cowering in a state of abject exhibitionism. Similarly we are observed by two other dark ovals eclipsing the colors and stories that lie beneath, pupils dilated to capacity against cold yellow walls. The admiral watches us, distracting our gaze as his index finger peels open the painting’s skin to reveal the blue of a sea. Samori’s reinterpretation of Sebastiano del Piombo’s portrait of Andrea Doria’s (D'Oria) dominates the room. Onyx draws concentric ovals, mineral plans that expand gradually from the tip of the nose. The microcosm centers three oval paintings around a stone head (Vertical Sea), a portrait that follows the natural geological formation of rock. The exhibition as a whole realizes a summa of Samori’s recent bodies of work. Nicola Samorì is a contemporary artist who is best known for his unique interpretations of classic European artworks.
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