Modella in rosso. The image expresses itself:, 1982

Paolo Ambrosio  

Ambrosio acts with intuition due to his long experience working on drawing. From the gesture-sign the figure emerges which is never random but the result of trial and error of the pencil and therefore causal.

In his essay “L'io dell'IMMAGINE” Albatross editor Rome; Ambrosio gave the image the faculty of speech. No longer object but subject. So in the images below there is a caption of the individual character. The image expresses itself: The traces of graphite and color that allowed my birth are an expression of who created me. A little libertine I feel at ease An visual intensity, the dreamlike, the symbolic, the burlesque are adjectives that catch the eye in their diversity, singularity. We expect something from painting that can give the internal level of the work that does not descend from the sky. It comes from a play of spots, lines and light. It comes from the GESTURE that operates in the imagination, insinuates itself and frees itself in the SIGN. It comes from Ambrosio's IMAGE-ART technique. The model was in red. From the movement of the hand the result is dynamic. The lines overlap in an infinite operation. IMAGE-ART is an artistic practice that has been using the eye's ability to manage GESTURE since the 1970s. Ambrosio shows the GESTURE on the traces of the movement of the hand where an expressive form emerges, a SIGN that gives freedom to the GESTURE. In practice, the Gesture ignites resources and makes it possible to transpose all the hopes of our desire.