The paintings of Italian artist, Nicola Samori, are full of sensuous energy. The artist displays the highest technical skill in his oil paintings in the portions of the work that he doesn’t deface. Rather than the work being simply the world inside the paint– the surface paint itself becomes part of the story as it displays the ruin of the image– melting off the canvas or being smeared. I love this contemporary twist on representational art. Through melting, scratching, or other forms of destruction Samori degenerates what could otherwise be conceivably a Rembrandt or Caravaggio. Nicola Samori paints renaissance-style paintings with a contemporary twist: portions of the images are disfigured. Examples of such associations are Raphael’s “Transfiguration”, Jean-Martin Charcot, who “invented” the medical diagnosis of hysteria in his hospital in Paris in the late 19th Century, and Efisio Marini, an Italian scientist and physician who created rather unconventional sculptures from preserved corpses. In his new paintings and sculptures he references art historical and biblical representations of ‘the healing of the possessed’. Nicola Samori examines the theme of obsession from a number of different perspectives: that of the human body, religion, science, and the obsession of the artist with his own work.
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