In each canvas she places her characters in a frame: the sky, the earth and the verticality that unites them. In the center, leaning against this verticality, woman, man, children. But the bodies are not locked there. The slight curvature of the back is based on the line that rises a few centimeters from the edge of the canvas, always the same margin. The head often exceeds the upper line, closer to the sky. And the feet take their support on the ground, under the lower line. This gives them a special strength. There is melancholy in these works, a sadness that sometimes creeps into the colors, but also a fierce will, which puts its affirmation in the reds. Life is therefore there, in these volumes, these circles where calves, thighs, buttocks, breasts and women's faces are drawn. But Maria Pia Filippetto's women have red cheeks and blue shadows. They are not lascivious: they are powerful and seem to wait. Sometimes the lines stretch to express a childhood, an adolescence. Sometimes a door opens, sometimes the boats are ready to leave, sometimes the trees make a distant call, which overflows the sky.

Cit. Marc Verhaverbeke - Writer