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Nicola Samorì
Nicola Samorì’s dark, Baroque-inspired
oil paintings are skillful reproductions of classical portraits and
still lifes on canvas, wood, or copper, purposefully destroyed to negate
classical representation and question painting itself. His process
entails “skinning” his painted figures with a palette knife or diluent,
layering another image on top, and repeating the process until images
fuse and signs of erasure and scratching dominate the reworked surface.
Samori explains that exposing the inside of the paint by removing layers
of “skin” with a scalpel reveals “a freshness and an intensity unknown
in the outer tones.” via:artsy
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