Nicola Samorì. La Bocca die Berlino

About

Central to Nicola Samorì’s work is the idea that the most visceral way to ignite the experience of pleasure in art is by the shock of cruel depictions that get under the skin, an aspect of human nature that has intensely occupied art theory since antiquity. Samorì’s painstaking painterly handling of the epidermis of baroque images creates a sensuously dense foil for his artistic probing of the emotional and aesthetic depths of this unsettling subject.

Nicola Samorì was born in 1977 in Forli, Italy, and studied at the Accademia d’Arte in Bologna. His work has been shown in numerous international institutions and museums, including solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Tübingen (2012), the Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Nantou, Taiwan (2019) and the MART Rovereto, Italy (2020). He was represented in the Italian Pavilion at both the 54th and 56th Biennale di Venecia. In autumn 2025, an extensive solo exhibition will open at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.