Forlì, 1977
Degrees:
Bologna’s Accademy of Fine Arts
Currently Lives and Works in Bagnacavallo (Ravenna).
All Nicola Samorìs’ work, convolved heads in marble, plaster or bronze, arise from the same question posed by the artist: “a painting, when he dies, becomes a sculpture?” … We’ll let the historians judge.
Website:
nicolasamori.com
Artworks:
Intus, 2014
Onyx
50 x 31 x 31,5 cm
Il male della pietra, 2014
Onyx, Concrete, Steel
167 x 21 x 20 cm (Detail)
Press:
Trippin Art
Featured Exhibitions:
2016
Double Page (of Frogs and Flowers), Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig
Nicola Samorì, Monitor Gallery, Rome
2015
RELIGO, TRAFO Centre for Contemporary Art, Szczecin
Gare du Sud, Anatomical Theatre, Bologna
La disciplina della carne, FAR Fabbrica Arte Rimini, Rimini
La disciplina della carne, Museo Civico Luigi Varoli, Cotignola
2014
L’Âge Mûr, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London
Begotten, not made, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York
INTUS (cristalli di crisi), Museum of Contemporary Art, Lissone
La pittura è cosa mortale, interrati palladiani, Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza
2013
Guarigione dell’Ossesso, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
Vom Abtun der Bilder, Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Die Verwindung, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
The Disappearing Act, LARMgalleri, Copenhagen
2012
Fegefeuer, Kunsthalle Tübingen
The Venerable Abject, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York
2011
Imaginifragus, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
Scoriada, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento
2010
La dialettica del mostro, MarcoRossi artecontemporanea Gallery, Milan
2009
Lo spopolatore, Civic Museum of Riva del Garda, Fortress of Nago Being, Magazzini del Sale, Cervia
Presente, ancient Monastery of St. Francis, Bagnacavallo
2008
Pandemie, Allegretti artecontemporanea Gallery, Turin