![]() ![]() This is about skimming the canvases, burning the subjects, making them immaterial ghosts due to an abrasion or shredding them as wax. Samorì's theme starts from a strong postmodernist base, where the legacy of Baroque and late sixteenth century art, a strongly rooted inheritance in every Italian and Western citizen, is reproposed in a crude and vandalous way, giving birth to very different purposes and reactions. ![]() The only one to stand out for the complexity of the meanings and the strong visual impact of the works he proposed was Nicola Samorì. The choice was partly disappointing: in some cases for the choice of artists who, even if still active, being quite old did not have much to say about the novelties of the Italian art scene but sometimes because of the smallness of the message and of the works selected and exposed. In the Italian Pavilion of the last Venice Bienniale, only twelve artists were invited, each of whom had a reserved separate room all for him/herself and the set up of his/her works. ![]()
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