Samori's works often refer to Italian 17th century painting. His still lifes, portraits and landscapes develop through enormous technical skills over a long span of time and through numerous layers of paint on copper, wood or canvas. But Samori withholds the „finished" painting from us and purposely destroys the image surface and attacks it with palette-knifes, diluent or his bare hands. Physicalness and the body are most important for Samori's paintings. By focusing on the materiality and artificiality of the image, Samori negates classical represenation and questions painting itself.
Nicola Samorì was born in 1977 in Forli, Italy, and studied at the Accademia d'Arte in Bologna. His work has been shown in numerous international institutions and museums, including solo exhibitions at the Villa d'Este, Tivoli (2022), the MART Rovereto (2020), the Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Nantou, Taiwan, and the Kunsthalle Tübingen (2012). Samorì was represented in the Italian pavilion at both the 54th and 56th Biennale di Venezia. In autumn 2025, the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples will host an extensive solo exhibition of his work.