FON BOCCIO POSTS 2

These posts have been vetted as being authentic with signs of significant use and age.

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Boccio 21
21" high
$1200

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Boccio 22
19.5" high
$1000

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Boccio 24
19" high
$1000

  FON
Boccio 19
21.5" high
SOLD

These posts have been vetted as being authentic with signs of use and age.

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Boccio 23
20" high
$700

FON
Boccio 26
18.5" high
SOLD

 

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Boccio 20
21.5" high
$500
 

 FON
Boccio 27
17.5" high
SOLD

 

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Boccio 16
22.5" high
SOLD

  FON
Boccio 29
17" high
$400

  FON
Boccio 31
14.5" high
SOLD

  FON
Boccio 18
22" high
$300

 

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Boccio 28
17.5" high
SOLD

 

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Boccio 30
17" high
SOLD

 

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Boccio 33
15" high
$400

Photographs © Tim Hamill

FON, BOCCIO POSTS 2, Republic of Benin

Figure posts like these, Boccio, were placed outdoors and sunk into the earth, becoming wonderfully aged by exposure. Despite their small scale, they seem to gain a spiritual monumentality from being fused with the earth. Standing at the entrance of a village, a courtyard, a house, or a shrine, they served a protective function, barring the entrance of evil spirits.

These were not portraits or specific spirits, rather, the carved figure in human form is a repository or decoy for a spiritual force. In this instance the carved figure is a kind of substitute or stalking horse for the people it is meant to protect. Here, as in much African art, the form of the sculpture is related more to ideas about reality, both visible and invisible, than to the literal representation of nature.

These Boccio posts were often crudely worked. Many are carved by self-taught sculptors and lack refinement. Appropriate to their nature, which is nonhuman and nonspecific, and to their exposure to the elements, Boccio figures seldom have individual characteristics or individual human embellishments such as coiffures or scarification.


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