The WATERS collection spr ang from the investigation and obser vation of forms
of water and the fascination with how it inter acts with light and movement. The
collection catalogues the names given to the multitude of forms that nature
creates and shapes: the whir lpool, the cascade, the droplet, the r ivulet, the wave.
“I have been studying and taking in these forms for four years. I obsessively
recreated them in ceramics, which let me form a kind of tactile , visual memory,
which led to developing a material language. From then on, I watched an
expressive handwriting come to life.”

It can be perceived as a writing exercise ,
a long session of writing that is as automatic as it is intimate, in which the
sculptures are shaped on the spot, built from what the sculpture itself dictates
as it evolves. Pieces show his body of works in ceramic, in which
traditional techniques come together with a dual syncretism of materiality
and abstraction. Pipolo gives expression to a sophisticated vocabulary of
aesthetics, evoking the biomorphic plasticity of Lucio Fontana and Leoncillo
Leonardi’s ceramic works. Pigments and oxides are applied by hand in three
separate stages to adhere to the stoneware’s var ied porosity with hues ranging from nude to snow white. Next, several layer s of white majolica are applied by brush, highlighting the mater ial’s ripples and each sculpture’s light points.
The fifth layer is applied by an airbrush and consists of a transparent glaze.
These processes give the stoneware a translucent effect verging on subtle
transparency. The organic forms take on an abstract, otherwor ldly quality,
ethereal yet sensual and vibrant. Interior decorator Monica Branchetti designed
the walls of the architectur al interiors.