Geometric Porcelain Vase by Bodil Manz

Geometric vase in cast porcelain by Bodil Manz, a Danish artist born in 1943. Transfer of black horizontal lines. Signed underneath in black cursive letters, circa 1990.
Bodil Manz is an internationally renowned ceramicist known for her virtuosity in her predominant use of ultra-fine, translucent porcelain, similar to an eggshell. She designs cylindrical forms or forms rooted in
geometric abstraction, with bold transfer decorations, in a graphic style reminiscent of Russian Suprematism. Just as Morandi assiduously approached still life or Josef Albers the square, her infinite commitment to geometric form stems from a desire to render sublime what might otherwise seem mundane. In his own words, "focusing on a single object such as a sphere, a square, a cylinder, a cup, something fundamentally everyday, does indeed seem almost banal. But during the creative process, we can discover new aspects of it, and suddenly the ordinary becomes a new aesthetic experience."