ARTISTS · NICOLA SAMORÌ

What Painting Hides Beneath the Skin

Painting, matter, time and the hidden life of images.

A look at Nicola Samorì’s work, where the image is built, opened and made to reveal what normally remains hidden underneath.

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Anne von Freyburg in front of one of her colourful textile artworks

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Anne von Freyburg: when beauty refuses to behave

Painting with fabric, questioning power through pleasure, and turning the decorative into something impossible to ignore.

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Museum of Bad Art

The museum of second looks.

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Profiles, works and ways of seeing

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Nicola Samorì

What Painting Hides Beneath the Skin.

Francisco de Goya

Modernity ahead of its time.

David Hockney

A sleeping dog was enough too.

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Conversations with artists and creators about process, decisions, uncertainty and work, without turning the interview into an automatic questionnaire.

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Anne von Freyburg: when beauty refuses to behave

Painting with fabric, questioning power through pleasure, and turning the decorative into something impossible to ignore.

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Museum of Bad Art: the museum of second looks

What happens when a work that seemed simply bad makes us look again? MOBA turned that question into a collection.

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STORIES

Stories that change when you look again

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Standing Male Nude from the Back, with a Smaller Sketch, drawing by Otto Greiner from 1892

STORIES

The lost work that was never really lost

A drawing considered lost for decades had continued to exist, changing hands and crossing borders.

Claudius Tazza, Renaissance gilt-silver cup

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For centuries, no one knew who was who

Twelve emperors, twelve cups and an identity problem that lasted for centuries.

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Cities tell stories too

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Bilbao

Iron, water, art and a second life.

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Detroit

Engines, scars and a city that kept creating.