Nicola Samorì
Blend the Blind, 2023-24
mixed media on paper mounted on linen
200h x 500w cm
78h x 197w in
Nicola Samorì
La Culla del Cane, 2023-24
oil on linen
200h x 300w cm
79h x 118w in
Nicola Samorì
Marlene, 2023
oil on linen
150h x 200w cm
59h x 78w in
Nicola Samorì
Lo Spagnolo, 2023
oil on copper
90h x 87w x 3d cm
35h x 34w x 1d in
Nicola Samorì
Lavoisier, 2023
Oil on copper
45h x 45w cm
18h x 18w in
Nicola Samorì
Il coltello di Cavallino, 2023
oil on linen
200h x 150w cm
79h x 59w in
Nicola Samorì
Untitled, 2023
oil on copper
70h x 60w cm
27h x 24w in
Nicola Samorì
Reluctant Idol, 2022
Paonazzo Marble
71h x 34.50w x 53d cm
28h x 14w x 21d in
Nicola Samorì
Santiera II, 2023
French red marble
55h x 90w x 40d cm
22h x 35w x 16d in
Nicola Samorì
Sleeping Drummer, 2021
Bardiglio Marble
35h x 120w x 40d cm
14h x 47w x 16d in
Nicola Samorì
Tede, 2023
oil on pink marble and calcite geode
20h x 15w x 5d cm
8h x 6w x 2d in
Nicola Samorì
None-43d, 2023
oil on onyx
20h x 15w x 2d cm
8h x 6w x 0.75d in
Nicola Samorì
Loon, 2023
oil on wood
40h x 30w x 2d cm
16h x 12w x 0.79d in
Nicola Samorì: Blend the Blind
Installation View
Nicodim, New York, 2024
Nicola Samorì: Blend the Blind
Installation View
Nicodim, New York, 2024
Nicola Samorì: Blend the Blind
Installation View
Nicodim, New York, 2024
DISEMBODIED
Installation View
Nicodim, Los Angeles 2024
Nicola Samorì (b. 1977, Forlì, Italy) lives and works in Bagnacavallo, Italy. His work was included as a part of the Italian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Exhibitions include Ángeles Agrela, June Canedo de Souza, Stanley Edmondson, Liang Fu, Igor Hosnedl, Larry Madrigal, Marta Mattioli, Teresa Murta, Daniel Pitín, Nicola Samorì, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2026); Classical Collapse, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Alberto Rocca, Eike Schmidt, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan (2025, solo); Classical Collapse, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Alberto Rocca, Eike Schmidt, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples (2025, solo); Mondegreens and New Understandings: Reza Aramesh, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, New York (2025); La bocca di Berlino, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Berlin (2025, solo); The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2024); KAFKAesque, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (2024); Blend the Blind, Nicodim, New York (2024, solo); DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024); Luce e sangue, Duomo di Napoli, Neapel (2023, solo); Luce e sangue, Chiesa di Santa Lucia alla Badia, Syrakus (2023, solo); Medea, Antico Mercato, Syracuse (2023); Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, New York (2023); Le Ossa della Madre, Villa d’Este, Tivoli (2022, solo); On the Wall, Building Gallery, Milan (2022); MONO, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Lipsia (2022, solo); Sfregi, Palazzo Fava, Bologna (2021, solo); ROMA (Manuale della mollezza e la tecnica dell’eclisse), Monitor Gallery, Rome (2021, solo); Danae Revisited, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo (2021); 141 – Un secolo di disegno in Italia, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna (2021); Black Square, Fondazione Made in Cloister e Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2020, solo); In abisso, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2020, solo); Lucìe, MART- Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (2020, solo); Stand 1D08, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2020); Collective Care: A House with Many Guests, M WOODS, Chaoyang, Beijing (2020); Cannibal Trail, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun (2019, solo); Solstizio d’Inferno, Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna (2019, solo); Metafysica, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg (2019); Preparing for Darkness – Vol. 3: I’m Not There, Kühlhaus, Berlin (2019); Iscariotes: Matteo Fato/Nicola Samorì, Casa Testori, Milan (2018, solo); Malafonte, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2018, solo); BILD MACHT RELIGION: Kunst zwischen Verehrung, Verbot und Vernichtung, Kunstmuseum, Bochum (2018); Begotten, Not Made, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York (2014, solo); The Venerable Abject, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York (2012).
Samorì's gaze is a clinical gaze that sees the symptoms of images in matter.
Nicola Samorì’s Classical Collapse exhibition unfolds simultaneously at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, presenting itself not as two separate shows but as a unified cultural project.
Reza Aramesh, Nicola Samori, and Hugo Wilson’s respective practices build monuments to the act of tailoring recollections and reminiscences to suit one’s sense of self, in addition to personal and empiric legacies still being written and reconsidered.
Samori’s paintings, like so many portraits of Dorian Gray, remind us that technological advancements enable seemingly intractable axioms—political, social, personal—to be rewritten, and that nothing, not even history, remains eternally fixed.
Nicola Samorì’s first solo exhibition at Nicodim, titled “Blend the Blind,” runs until March 16 in New York. Samorì, an Italian artist born in 1977, has long been fascinated by the aesthetic and conceptual layers of ancient art. His latest body of work takes this fascination to new heights, employing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to mediate and manipulate classical art motifs with modern visual data. Encapsulated by the function ‘Blend,’ this process allows for the instantaneous fusion of iconic art historical images with diverse visual elements, creating complex and innovative compositions.
DISEMBODIED featured in Autre's Daily Journal.
What exactly happens during an out-of-body experience? Do our souls transcend, while our bodies linger in this world? The group exhibition ‘Disembodied’ attempts to explore this subject, presenting a diverse range of sophisticated works exuding ecstasy and sensuality. One risks getting lost in this parallel universe, but is guided through darkness and the unknown by the wise visions of these artists.
