The sculpture Figulinae is a stoneware clay column created by artist Karin Putsch-Grassi, recently installed in the garden of the MUST Museum, that will become part of the Museum’s Permanent Collection of Contemporary Art. There are two main concepts that help to understand the work FIGULINAE; CONNECTION and COMPRESSION. The ‘work is composed of turned vessels, which are connected and compressed into outlined forms, resulting in a “formlessness put into form.” The compressions unite a plurality of individual entities, the vessels. Each work is unique because the combinations of the compressions are infinite and never the same. What the artist wants to achieve is not a proposal of the homologation into well-defined forms, but the tension of the forces and balances that interact between the individual components. The functional vessel, which on a smaller scale loses its initial purpose, becomes a work of art.