Samorì, an Italian artist born in 1977 in Forlì, has spent the last two decades mastering the art of the "beautiful wound." He is a painter’s painter, a draftsman of formidable skill who understands the Old Masters so intimately that he feels comfortable taking a scalpel to them.
Samorì’s practice is often described as a "ceremony of systematic deconstruction". He uses technical mastery to replicate the Baroque and Renaissance aesthetics of artists like Caravaggio or Rembrandt, only to "attack" the surface. nicola samori
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He uses a palette knife not to add paint, but to lift it. He scrapes, shaves, and excises sections of the dried paint. Sometimes, he scrapes the face down to the dark under-layer, leaving only a ghostly impression of the features. Other times, he folds the canvas before the paint dries, imprinting a shadow twin onto the surface, creating a distorted echo of the original subject. In his famous "ferri" (irons) series, he presses a heated branding iron into the wet paint, searing a void into the face of the subject. He is discussed in journals on contemporary art,