The images and their narration are functional to this staging that needs the metaphor of the flesh to make itself unequivocal ”. The skinned skin is transformed into filaments which, detaching themselves from the painting, remain an integral part of the work: in fact, Samorì’s technique provides that he, after having perfectly created the work, rubs it, giving it a new meaning, an artistic meaning and vital, mysterious and indecipherable.Īs the artist states in an interview with him: “I whip the painting to see it bleed, because I consider it like a body that is treated like an anemic organism, while it is not at all.

The wooden sculpture proposed by the artist rises upwards, transmitting the pain and suffering of the torture experienced, like the works centered on the theme of the skinned body, of which the main protagonists are Christian Saints, to which the artist adds a further martyrdom compared to that reported by the hagiographic tradition. It is precisely starting from the comparison with the statue of Apollo present in a room of the palace, that Samorì begins his journey, bringing attention to the myth of Marsyas, who had tried to challenge Apollo. It is the very meaning of life, the mysterious link between life and death, between creating and undoing, that emerges from Samorì’s work a silent meditation on art, on color, on the material from which a powerful expressive force is released, a need for dialogue, comparison, continuation and innovation of the pictorial and artistic tradition, with which he is always in contact. The exhibition itinerary was conceived in close dialogue with the rooms of Palazzo Fava: the artist listened to the “friezes” on the ceilings, painted by great artists from the past, such as the Carracci and some works from the Carisbo foundation, like Canova’s Penitent Magdalene and the “Anatomical Garden”. Nicola Samorì from Forlì returns to his home town with a personal exhibition at Palazzo Fava, an anthology of about 80 works of painting and sculpture, curated by Alberto Zanchetta and Chiara Stefani.

Art by nicola samori