Lines vase sculpture by Kazuhiko Sato

A sculptural vase by Kazuhiko Sato, whose bold organic form evokes a pebble polished by time, in a very wabi-sabi spirit. This is a rare and deeply sculptural piece, conceived as a work of art in its own right, while retaining an opening that allows it to be used as a vase.

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.

For this vase-sculpture he 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 both organic and very balanced. The strength of this vase-sculpture is accentuated by the abstract white lines undulating on the surface like a poetic cartography. 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 91 (for 1991, the year of its creation), in Roman letters, as well as the artist's name in kanji. It comes with a beautiful wooden protective box (tomobako) closing with a sanadahimo cord and a protective cloth (tomonuno) bearing the artist's seal.