After seeing some 3D printed sculptures, however, she has since opened up her mind quite a bit and a recent partnership between 3D printer manufacturer WASP and established artist Nicola Samorì, for an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of Lissone, in Italy, would probably make her come all the way around. Part of Samorì’s daily creative process also includes employing irrevocable ways to destroy his images that are elaborately painted, which is considered a method to create an understanding of the fleeting relationship between material and time.My cousin is the mayor’s assessor’s to the arts in a small Italian town with a rich cultural heritage and she has always been very doubtful about the use of 3D printing technologies in the world of traditional arts. Each experiment aims to investigate and grasp the ephemerality of the creative moment while generating a time-transcending dialogue with stones refined through hundreds of years. Sometimes the images are ruptured using stones and separated from the canvases, and other times, they are cut in half, peeled off with a scalpel or a chisel, eroded with sulfur, stripped off from walls, or repeatedly created out of or incorporated with natural fractures or openings on stones. Samorì’s work, be it painting or sculpture, portrays the vulnerability of his image subjects, and at the same time, voices their uncompromising resistance.

By destroying the surface and creating a superficial opening, the instantaneously severed sedimentary layers beneath are subtly revealed, allowing further exploration. In Samorì’s work, the delineation of the “layers of skin” resembles a process of geological survey to unearth the sediments underneath. This exhibition focuses on the representation of “layers of skin” that is, to explore the surface of painting and sculpture as if it comprises the whole. Embodying various influences, such as the disappearance of time, gravity and material deterioration, his painting sometimes seems incredibly charged and sometimes highly reserved yet, they all finally arrive at a “cadaverous body.” His work enables us to treat the creative mechanism and process of painting as the real subject, which, after a long period of struggle, is only left with ruinous, vulnerable wreckages. With these seemingly violent, peeled off and frail images, we trace the artist’s “cannibal and consuming” methods and path, through which he has destructed and reconstructed to devour the once glorious art of the West.īaroque painting provides creative inspiration for Samorì.

Art is a hole in time, something that anesthetizes its course.Ĭannibal Trail features works created during 20 by Italian artist Nicola Samorì.

Nicola samorì paintings