Samorì and Fato's 'Iscariotes' at Casa Testori

Casa Testori in Novate Milanese presents 'Iscariotes', a two-person exhibition featuring Nicola Samorì and Matteo Fato. The title alludes to a 'betrayal' of art history and iconography. Samorì transforms Luca Giordano's Magdalene by curling the painted film downward, while Fato's diptych of Ennio Flaiano fades through brush cleaning. The show intertwines biblical and historical references, homages to Giovanni Testori, and site-specific installations, exploring thematic and technical affinities between Samorì's dramatic, subtractive approach and Fato's luminous, additive method. Samorì works by subtraction, concealing a Hans Memling female face or carving around a void in neoclassical onyx; Fato combines painting and sculpture, with painting enclosed in wooden architecture that amplifies its expressive power.