![]() ![]() Appropriately, Samori’s studio is a reappropriated, ancient church near Byzantine Ravenna-clearly an inspiring setting for such haunting work. ![]() Enigmatic and classically beautiful, his paintings tell half stories and are wonderfully dramatic in their pose, chiaroscuro lighting and atmosphere. Each delicately painted image is defaced by glutenous gloops, scratches or vicious brushes of raw paint, systematically destroying the work underneath. ![]() Samori’s Baroque influence is plain and skilfully referenced in his elegant work which ignores contemporary subjects in favour of classical faces, bodies and clothes. Nicola Samori’s incredible deconstructed interpretations of classical compositions simultaneously preserve a deeply familiar and intrenched technique of painting and physically destroy it’s rules and conventions. ![]()
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