FON BOCCIO POSTS ARCHIVES

The posts below have been sold and are left here for reference and educational purposes.

For UNSOLD Fon Boccio posts:

FON Boccio 34 35" high SOLD

FON Boccio 28 17.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 12 26.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 5 30" high SOLD

FON Boccio 7 29" high SOLD

FON Boccio 8 28.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 29 17" high SOLD

FON Boccio 31 14.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 18 22.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 11 25" high SOLD

FON Boccio 28 17.5" high SOLD

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FON Boccio 2 29" high SOLD

FON Boccio 13 24" high SOLD

FON Boccio 9 29" high SOLD

FON Boccio 10 29" high SOLD

FON Boccio 17 29" high SOLD

FON Boccio 25 29" high SOLD

FON Boccio 32 29" high SOLD

FON Boccio 15 22" high $500

FON Boccio 19 21.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 27 17.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 16 22.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 6 29.5" high SOLD

2005     and     2015 Began to ooze old oil from within sculpture. FON Boccio 26 18.5" high SOLD

2005     and     2015 Began to ooze old oil from within sculpture.  FON Boccio 14 24" high SOLD

FON Boccio 31 14.5" high SOLD

FON Boccio 7 29" high SOLD

FON Boccio 8 28.5" high SOLD

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

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.