Against the current
“His mastery of direct carving gives him a mastery of anatomy and allows him to subject it to the metamorphoses dictated by his imagination without incoherence. This is why his works, however strange, are fundamentally beautiful. They are beautiful because of the quality of their execution, they are beautiful because of the harmony of their forms, they are beautiful because of their very strangeness, because of the mystery that emanates from them, because of the disquiet that they give rise to. The fantasy thus created is intrinsically sculptural. It does not come from the subject, it is not anecdotal. It is born from the edge of his chisel, from the point of his spindle which digs out striations whose parallelism introduces a rigorous order in the randomness”.
“It is certain that the work of Marie-Claire de Filippi is not in line with current figurative art, classical by the part that statuary takes in it, dreamlike, fantastic, it is apart, independent.
Pierre DALLAIRE
Art Critic
