Portuguese Brutalist Black Glazed Multi-Neck Ceramic Vase, 1980s

Between vessel and sculpture, these vases refuse to resolve into either – and that refusal is precisely their authority. The multi-neck form divides a single mass into separate throats, each one directing, composing, determining what passes through it. Uncompromisingly masculine in presence, the weight of the base grounds them while the assertiveness of the necks commands the space above. In black glaze, material disappears entirely.

What remains is form as argument. At 43 cm, they do not decorate a room. They occupy it. Two available.