His allusions to the inspiration of Old Masters reveals how Samor shares with them an idea of creating something new out of what already exists by means of artistic transformation. She was a founding member of the music and performance duo Hecuba, and is a co-director of Osk, a collaborative studio that develops artificial and alien intelligence to create and look at art and individual experience through new human and nonhuman perspectives.

His work was featured in Le Nuove Frontiere della Pittura (2018) and L’Ultima Cena dopo Leonardo (2019), both at the Stelline Foundation. Nicola Samor is an artist steeped in the tradition of 17th century Italian painting and sculpture, but with a determinedly contemporary stance. He has also had solo exhibitions abroad in institutional spaces such as the Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art in Taiwan, the Neue Galerie in Gladbeck, the Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin and the Kunsthalle in Tübingen. In recent years, he has had solo shows at Palazzo Fava, Bologna (2021) at the Mart in Trento and Rovereto (2020-21) at the Made in Cloister Foundation and at the MANN, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (2020). Samorì has taken part in the Venice Biennale twice (20). He also produces frescoes and sculptures.

The artist paints on board or canvas, as well as surfaces like copper and semi-precious stones, incorporating these distinctive textures into his pieces. Perforating, scratching or literally peeling off the paint, either abruptly or with painstaking care, he gives rise to new images that are rooted in art history, but express modern torments in a contemporary language. Samorì starts with meticulously produced copies of works by great masters, mostly from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dominated by the encounter between light and shadow, which he then transforms, infusing them with the troubled spirit of our times.

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