Ambra
Gurrieri

My beginning and fundamental stage was street art.

The culture to which it refers, Blu and the social centres of Bologna, the walls of the city like

open-air galleries, kidnapped me, and I was initiated, under the pseudonym 'LaPupa', into

an artistic vision linked to sub-cultures and the immediacy of fruition.

For some years now my works have been almost exclusively on canvas, and I use painting,

which remains for me the biggest magnetic charge, direct channel to the real and the true,

of one's own sign, one's own emotionality, captured between the pictorial layers.

I paint in order to recover pieces that are part of me, and in this path explore

the human, his anxieties, shaping the matter of the dream and the waking nightmare.

I paint images that emerge spontaneously, and have the usefulness of an oracle,

along with the seduction of a message to be recognized. They are scenes from a life

underground, whose meaning can be perceived by letting oneself be attracted and involved.

In the ocean of this hidden world, sirens sing the evil of living.

Broken, cracked, melted, burning, they seek the way to swim quietly, without drowning;

they seek the way, outside and behind their mask, to cure the fire, without turning it off.