As seen in his L’Occhio Occidentale (2013), Samori plays with chiaroscuro and realism to dismantle the imagery he creates.

Samorì was awarded the 9th Cairo Prize at Palazzo della Permanente in Milano, the Michetti Prize and Giorgio Morandi Engraving prize. (Italian, born 1977) Nicola Samori is an Italian painter whose figurative works translate the techniques of Renaissance painting into haunting contemporary images. He was featured in the Italian Pavilion at the 54 th Venice Biennale. Samorì's works have been showcased across Europe and Asia including Kunsthalle Tubingen, Santa Maria delle Croci, the MART Museum, YU-HSIU Museum of Art and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Poland. Nicola Samorì was born in 1977 in Forli, Italy. Works such as his figurative busts and sculptures made from wax push the tradition almost as far as possible from the idealized vision of Ancient Greece and the Renaissance to become deconstructed representations of classical sculpture. Nicola Samorì Miriade signed, titled and dated Nicola Samori 2018 - MIRIADE- on the reverse oil on linen 301 x 201 cm (118 1/2 x 79 1/8 in.) Painted in 2018. Nicola Samori is an Italian artist whose dark, dreary paintings explore the nature of fear. His allusions to the inspiration of Old Masters reveals how Samorì shares with them an idea of creating something new out of what already exists by means of artistic transformation. In Art, Dark Art, Disturbing, Painting, Surreal. Nicola Samorì is an artist steeped in the tradition of 17th century Italian painting and sculpture, but with a determinedly contemporary stance.

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