![]() The book presents sixty color reproductions of Nicola Samorì's works, accompanied by critical essays by Vittorio Sgarbi and Denis Isaia. He comes as close as possible to death, imposing on his characters an endless suffering, because it is precisely in the deepest pain, in the eternal resistance, that the pathos of this works is manifested. ![]() The artist's intervention also includes other women, using paint to deform them and to change the perception of the viewer, who is constantly forced to wonder what the meaning of this butchery is. Samorì does not give his subjects any rest, he tortures them but doesn't allow them to die. Lucia, to whom the exhibition is dedicated, is present in many forms: Samorì beheads her, blinds her, dazzles her, even stabs her neck with a paintbrush. Since 2014 the record price for this artist at auction is 101,866 USD for Miriade, sold at Phillips London in 2022. His subjects are altered, deformed by the artist, who uses this material to form (or destroy) physical connotations, expressions, and entire body parts. Nicola Samor's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 135 USD to 101,866 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. ![]() ![]() Working between Mannerism and Informal Art, Samorì destroys figuration, erases it, literally dis-figures it, engaging in a fight with the history of painting and a confrontation with representation, challenged by the pictorial matter. ![]()
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