Salvatore Pujia feels and lives art as a game. To him painting means living, in the proper sense of feeling alive. Producing means exploring and experimenting. This is the spirit that drives Salvatore Pujia's artistic work: always changing, open to new visual experiences, going with uninhibited creativity from brushes to crete, from canvas to paper or wood, from large format to extra measure.
His pictorial language comes from informal experiences, but in the course of its evolution it has gradually transformed to achieve a personal language.

Pujia is a disarming artist. The strength of his artistic expression is in the innocence and naivety with which he approaches to his paintings. He has no mediation and what lives in his painting surfaces is the pure vitality of his expressive force. There is no construction project in his search, but naturalness: pure instinct, pure heart. Pure passion. To Pujia art is an exploration of two-way: material and emotional. Spontaneously led to experimentation, he arrives at a stage of primary knowledge, free from any pre-coded language.

Very sensitive to the charm of the matter, incredibly attracted by the color - of which interprets all the intensive power - he combines these two elements without losing any possibilities neither disperse his creative impulses. The work plan becomes a plan for total freedom of expression: the artist is like a child who builds his own maps of signs and colors, in a word, his own language.

Pujia's artworks consist in surfaces in which you can feel - at the same time - depth and relief, extensions and folds. Artist's aim is not to capture the creative act of the "beginning", nor to understand the eternal. The Pujia's art is an art of surfaces. We are talking about layered surfaces of color; sometimes they are materic and sometimes veiled; sometimes fleshy sometimes ethereal. Surfaces able to catch your eyes and carry them into the bottom of the vortex of your feelings.

In his paintings the life frees itself from the given shapes and expresses itself in a material movement interwoven into the lines, folds and contrasts of light. It is the creative power of things.

And so, in the Pujia's abstract appear strange characters, unexpected and poetic figures or, probably, just formal illusions: the house, the mountains, the clouds eater; the fisherman, the funny hat, and other tracks that refer to an aesthetic vitalism that contains that stylistic challenge that life throws to the man of contemporary age: escape the mortification of the forms of existence already given, in the freedom of a never-ending process that invents new possibilities for existing, new ways of being in the world, new life styles.

Text by Maria Rosaria Gallo