Large vase-sculpture by Kazuhiko Sato

A large, monumental vase-sculpture by Japanese ceramicist Kazuhiko Sato. Its spectacular silhouette evokes the shape of a fragmented mountain or fossil rock, crafted like a sculpture while retaining its function as a vase for understated or more lavish compositions. With its powerful presence and raw texture, this work naturally finds its place in a contemporary interior.

Sato-san is a renowned Japanese ceramicist born in 1947 in Fujisawa (Kanagawa Prefecture), and graduated from the prestigious ceramics department of the Tokyo University of the Arts. He studied under Michi Kajimoto and Koichi Tamura, two renowned Japanese potters who are Living National Treasures.

Kazuhiko Sato's work has been presented in major exhibitions and galleries around the world (London, New York, Sydney, etc.), including many solo exhibitions, and he has won numerous awards for his remarkable work.

This vase-sculpture impresses with its weight, its size (26 cm high, 53 cm wide) and the richness of its surface. To create it, Sato san used a combination of Shigaraki and Seto clays, which he shaped by hand with an extremely complicated personal technique, which gives the surface its rough and sandy side and this form that is both powerful and very balanced. The material is incised with deep lines, creating almost geological patterns. These irregular striations, both organic and graphic, seem to map the layers of an ancient soil or evoke fossilized landslides in the ceramic. A work of contemporary art that is timeless and profoundly Japanese.

This vase-sculpture is signed at its base “SATOH” (Kazuhiko Sato’s usual signature) and 95 (for 1995, the year of its creation), in Roman letters. It comes with a beautiful wooden protective box (tomobako) closing with a sanadahimo cord and signed by the artist, as well as an explanatory leaflet (shiori), elements guaranteeing its authenticity