Yet he is neither an artist who is precious about his paintings, nor a Victor Frankenstein, who seeks to destroy because he is horrified by what he has created. The gallery’s press release states that Samorì examines obsession, one aspect of which is the obsession of the artist with his own work. I imagine the artist labouriously painting for weeks or maybe months, building up layer upon layer of paint, and then one day turning around and destroying these creations in which he has invested so much. The act of their destruction being all the more perverse because it is carried out on paintings which have been carefully rendered with art historical references and technique. His show, Guarigione Dell’Ossesso at Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, was described to me as perfect baroque-style paintings that the artist then destroys so it naturally piqued my interest.Īnd what destruction! The paintings are gouged, pierced, flecked, scratched, scrunched, shrouded and pummeled. I am writing it in Bologna about an Italian artist, Nicola Samorì, who studied here and whose work I saw the day before I left Berlin. This post serves, I hope, as a good bridge between my time in Berlin and the next few weeks that I will spend in Italy.
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