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PAX of Beatus, 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021
February 24, 2021

The Trouble with Pink

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Large Scale 3D Printed Ceramics

THE TROUBLE WITH PINK

“THE ORDER,” a 3d ceramic series begun in the Summer of 2020 during my complete isolation during Covid, was all black and white. It sprang from memories of being put into a French convent La Rochelle at age five.

When Biden became President, I was greatly relieved after all the tumult & ugliness for so long. I started seeing pink. That’s how things begin for me…I see a color or shape in my dreams, my walks, or doing something mundane like the laundry. 

I have an uncomfortable relationship with pink. Pink…the symbolic color of tenderness, affection, romance and peace. PAX, Latin for peace. PAX be with you. Pink the soother, has been definitively linked to toning down aggression, and its use in holding cells for violent criminals.

Pink for me however has another meaning: my mother, Beatrice. It was her favorite color and therefore I wanted nothing to do with it.

PAX of Beatus, 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021

PAX of Beatus (a different iteration), 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021

Pink is too frivolous for my pragmatic nature but far worse, painful. In 2018 I tried a few pieces in pink (you can see those on my Instagram feed: @filippucciart). Beatrice no longer walks the earth but when she did one could describe her as a wild boar in pink. A confusing dichotomy. You thought “pretty lady” but under the pink was a tough personality, a bristling, masculine Joan Crawford of judgement and meanness. The least maternal person you could imagine but there she was, a blonde in pink wearing pink lipstick.

Here’s why using the color pink in my work – with all its subtle iterations – helped me better understand her.

PAX of Beatus (a different iteration), 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021

PAX of Beatus (a different iteration), 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021

After creating numerous pink cloth studies over the last few months, some insight arrived. Not all at once, mind you. It kept tugging at me until I got it. My mother wore pink because that’s what she wanted to be. She wanted to be affectionate and peaceful and pink but because of an undiagnosed personality disorder, was the opposite. The total opposite.

I will only say this. Art saved me from pink, got me away from it, and then brought me right back to it. Finally, I did not look away. You could say that I found my inner pinkness. I am not afraid of pink any more. To Beatrice…PAX be with you.


Flying Nun, Summer 2020. 3D study for a large ceramic sculpture-FILIPPUCCI 2020
August 19, 2020

Contemporary Ceramics

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SISTERS OF THE CLOTH

New work from the quiet isolation of the Spring and Summer of 2020. This Series is built upon the impressions of a five year old in La Rochelle, France, where – for awhile – I was put into the custody of nuns who lived in a medieval convent. 

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Forgotten laundry in Santa Fe, New Mexico 2020

CORRIDORS & SHROUDS

Rag, Santa Fe NM Summer 2020 - FILIPPUCCI

Rag, Santa Fe 2020

The impressions began with walks in neighborhood cul-de-sacs where I noticed pieces of cloth. I would notice one, then another, and another. In New Mexico, many still put their laundry out to dry, often draped over a fence or stone wall. Sometimes, these are forgotten…left there to fade into the seasons. Couldn’t tell you why rags and laundry caught my attention but once you start noticing something, there’s a reason.

In the quiet of this pandemic, my dreaming revealed corridors and shrouds. My waking now held terrors. Abandonment, loneliness. I resisted remembering until those terrified little girl memories of flapping cloth creatures emerged forcefully, impatient with all the waiting. From bundles of rags, I “saw” fabric – copious, flowing, mysterious – rise into form.

As a 5 year old, I struggled to grasp that real women were under all that drapery. I could ask nothing for speaking was discouraged. Other than the perpetually seated Abbess, this community of French nuns was always in a hurry, dashing and darting with bundles, parcels and mops. Incessantly toiling. Like household gods, each was a silent expert at what they did. You said little, did much. They were frighteningly beautiful blurs, smudges of white and black. Everything in its place, everything in order.  

CERAMIC | The Novitiate - Sandra Filippucci 2020

©Sandra Filippucci 2020

Wearing different habits to denote their status, there was a distinct hierarchy within this community, and you quickly learned who was at top, and who did the laundry. They all commanded their space wherever they were or whatever their assignment was – all knowing, all powerful but in fact, many years ago nuns had little to no power within the church. I’m not sure they even do now. These obedient women were consecrated worker ants, always minding the time, polishing and starching as they noiselessly prayed.

Decades later, I remember those figures of cloth rushing down ancient corridors, making sounds like the sails on fishing boats in the La Rochelle harbor.

WHY CERAMICS

The shrouds in corridors became sculptures of cloth. Since I work with 3D programs, I began assembling fabric in an abstracted manner but still figurative. Joan of Arc has been my primary subject matter for so long that this different way of working startled me. The work just became. And it wanted to be ceramic. This is what led to that.

I’d been to a lecture in Taos at the Harwood Museum in 2019 organized by Ann Landi of Vasari21.com, on the Evolution of Art Criticism, which included panelists Peter Plagens, Laurie Fendrich, Lucy Lippard and Garth Clark. Garth Clark is a distinguished writer, curator and lecturer on modern and contemporary ceramic art. I was galvanized by his understanding of this medium, which I never seriously considered. I bought his 2003 book, “Shards,” and wondered when and how I would produce ceramics.

CERAMIC | The Worker - Sandra Filippucci 2020

©Sandra Filippucci 2020

This new body of work, “Sisters of the Cloth,” can only exist as 3d printed ceramics. Some pieces appear simple, but are in fact, quite complex. Created with 3d software, they are well-suited to 3d printing. The process will involve clay extruding to the largest size, and then combining the sections into life-size sculptures. They will be fired like pottery, and then hand-glazed. They can be constructed with permeating resins for outdoors, hung on walls, suspended from ceilings. Editioned smaller pieces will come first, because when working this way, each side must translate well.

Ceramic always suggests fragility. These iterations of fresh novitiates, postulants and weary old nuns wearing extraordinary hats no longer exist in the real world. The habits they wore have virtually disappeared. These are the impressions of shapes – sometimes apparitions – from a five-year old mind. I have harbored these windswept impressions over a lifetime and, like the statuary that filled their Medieval convent, these pieces are a kind of vesper, a chant from the sanctuary of dreams. 

The Abbess - Sandra Filippucci 2020

The Abbess – ©Sandra Filippucci 2020


SORT OF AN ART BLOG
  • PAX of Beatus, 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021
    The Trouble with Pink February 24,2021
  • Flying Nun, Summer 2020. 3D study for a large ceramic sculpture-FILIPPUCCI 2020
    Contemporary Ceramics August 19,2020
  • Greta of Earth - The world's most prominent climate activist
    Greta of Earth July 6,2020
  • Memmo of Filippuccio (1250-1325) - The young man emancipates himself and asks money to parents - cycle of frescoes with the theme profane love (1303-1310) - the Podesta Room - Tower of the City Hall of San Gimignano
    Art Ancestry April 15,2019
  • FILIPPUCCI - THE HISTORY OF FLOWERS
    The History of Flowers April 7,2019
“Venus,” 2020. Kindness is an army of one...on “Venus,” 2020. Kindness is an army of one...one cuddle at a time. Stay safe. Love the one you’re with and Happy Valentines. THIS PIECE: Just before the cloth work, I created a group of wireframed figures in pink. Lasered metal and suspended with pin lights to project shadow patterns. @filippucciart ▫️#routers #metalsculpture #wireframes #wireframing #valentines #valentine2021 #lovewarrior #love #empowered #armor #instamood #kindness #insta #instalove #pink #lovegoddess #venus #relationships #lovewarriors #staysafe #3dmodeling
My recent palettes of black and white and now pink My recent palettes of black and white and now pink appear simple yet I find - with just minor shifts of light - that they can reveal endless iterations of subtlety.  Like snow. @filippucciart ⛄️ #pink #palettes #dynamiccloths  #figurativeartist #figurative #3dsculpture #porcelain #extrudedclay #instamood
TAP For Soothing MUSIC. 3D Studies in Pink, 2021 f TAP For Soothing MUSIC. 3D Studies in Pink, 2021 for bisque & gloss porcelain sculpture. @filippucciart 🎬 #porcelain #sculptureart #pink #figurativeartist #instamood #bisque #women #womeninspiringwomen
Inauguration Day. Inclusive, sane. Hope has arrive Inauguration Day. Inclusive, sane. Hope has arrived. @filippucciart ▫️#biden #bidenkamala2020 #inauguration #hope #historicmoment #firstblackwoman #msmagazine #whitehouse  #goodnews #wedidit #drjillbiden #allcolors #46thpresident #instamood #instadaily #instapolitics #instaartist
Moved back to Connecticut from Santa Fe in time fo Moved back to Connecticut from Santa Fe in time for Christmas. Everyone tested and safe and happy to leave 2020 in the rear view mirror.  @filippucciart ▫️ #2020 #newyear #movingon #connecticut #merrychristmas  #betternewyear #ontheroad
“A Piece of Pink Cloth,” 2020. A 3D study of “A Piece of Pink Cloth,” 2020.  A 3D study of movement. Amazing how a piece of cloth can be so suggestive. @filippucciart ▫️ #3d #3drender #3dceramics #contemporaryceramics #sculpture #pink #instamood #instalove #3drendering #figurative #artistsoninstagram #instaartist #3dsketch #3drenders #contemporaryartwork #maquette
Friends & family are everything. I milked my Birth Friends & family are everything. I milked my Birthday for about two weeks. With gratitude to the artist Paula Roland for the cake, company and photo. This was one of several very small celebrations. Everyone was masked at Midtown Bistro and distanced so much appreciation to them. Once you stand up you must have your mask on. These simple pleasures are now a very big deal. @filippucciart ▫️#birthday  #birthdaygirl #rituals #cake #celebration #instagood #beinghappy #mask #pandemicbirthday #wearamask #moments #birthdaycake #midtownbistrosantafe #santafe #friends #familyiseverything #paularolandart #love
Dancing with the darkness. “Figure XVI,” 2020. Dancing with the darkness. “Figure XVI,” 2020. 3D render for a 3D sculpture in ceramic. @filippucciart ▫️#contemporaryceramics #sculptureoftheday #instasculpture #instaceramics #3dprinting #extrudedclay #3dceramics #3d #contemporaryartdaily
Two pieces of cloth. “Figure XV,” 2020. All th Two pieces of cloth. “Figure XV,” 2020. All that holds us together is the belief that this too shall pass. 3d ceramic render. @filippucciart ▫️ #3dceramics #3dceramicsprinting #3dceramica #3dprinting #3dartist #3d #3dart #instablackandwhite #contemporaryceramics #figurativeartist
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SANDRA FILIPPUCCI

Contemporary American artist based in Connecticut. 3d printed sculptures, painting, drawing. Part of a group of New York artists working with technology since the mid-eighties and was the first artist to have a digitally based solo exhibition at The Museum of American Illustration in Manhattan.

“Venus,” 2020. Kindness is an army of one...on “Venus,” 2020. Kindness is an army of one...one cuddle at a time. Stay safe. Love the one you’re with and Happy Valentines. THIS PIECE: Just before the cloth work, I created a group of wireframed figures in pink. Lasered metal and suspended with pin lights to project shadow patterns. @filippucciart ▫️#routers #metalsculpture #wireframes #wireframing #valentines #valentine2021 #lovewarrior #love #empowered #armor #instamood #kindness #insta #instalove #pink #lovegoddess #venus #relationships #lovewarriors #staysafe #3dmodeling
My recent palettes of black and white and now pink My recent palettes of black and white and now pink appear simple yet I find - with just minor shifts of light - that they can reveal endless iterations of subtlety.  Like snow. @filippucciart ⛄️ #pink #palettes #dynamiccloths  #figurativeartist #figurative #3dsculpture #porcelain #extrudedclay #instamood
TAP For Soothing MUSIC. 3D Studies in Pink, 2021 f TAP For Soothing MUSIC. 3D Studies in Pink, 2021 for bisque & gloss porcelain sculpture. @filippucciart 🎬 #porcelain #sculptureart #pink #figurativeartist #instamood #bisque #women #womeninspiringwomen
Inauguration Day. Inclusive, sane. Hope has arrive Inauguration Day. Inclusive, sane. Hope has arrived. @filippucciart ▫️#biden #bidenkamala2020 #inauguration #hope #historicmoment #firstblackwoman #msmagazine #whitehouse  #goodnews #wedidit #drjillbiden #allcolors #46thpresident #instamood #instadaily #instapolitics #instaartist
Moved back to Connecticut from Santa Fe in time fo Moved back to Connecticut from Santa Fe in time for Christmas. Everyone tested and safe and happy to leave 2020 in the rear view mirror.  @filippucciart ▫️ #2020 #newyear #movingon #connecticut #merrychristmas  #betternewyear #ontheroad
“A Piece of Pink Cloth,” 2020. A 3D study of “A Piece of Pink Cloth,” 2020.  A 3D study of movement. Amazing how a piece of cloth can be so suggestive. @filippucciart ▫️ #3d #3drender #3dceramics #contemporaryceramics #sculpture #pink #instamood #instalove #3drendering #figurative #artistsoninstagram #instaartist #3dsketch #3drenders #contemporaryartwork #maquette
Friends & family are everything. I milked my Birth Friends & family are everything. I milked my Birthday for about two weeks. With gratitude to the artist Paula Roland for the cake, company and photo. This was one of several very small celebrations. Everyone was masked at Midtown Bistro and distanced so much appreciation to them. Once you stand up you must have your mask on. These simple pleasures are now a very big deal. @filippucciart ▫️#birthday  #birthdaygirl #rituals #cake #celebration #instagood #beinghappy #mask #pandemicbirthday #wearamask #moments #birthdaycake #midtownbistrosantafe #santafe #friends #familyiseverything #paularolandart #love
Dancing with the darkness. “Figure XVI,” 2020. Dancing with the darkness. “Figure XVI,” 2020. 3D render for a 3D sculpture in ceramic. @filippucciart ▫️#contemporaryceramics #sculptureoftheday #instasculpture #instaceramics #3dprinting #extrudedclay #3dceramics #3d #contemporaryartdaily
Two pieces of cloth. “Figure XV,” 2020. All th Two pieces of cloth. “Figure XV,” 2020. All that holds us together is the belief that this too shall pass. 3d ceramic render. @filippucciart ▫️ #3dceramics #3dceramicsprinting #3dceramica #3dprinting #3dartist #3d #3dart #instablackandwhite #contemporaryceramics #figurativeartist
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