A Fon Maternity with numerous fetish attachments, calebasses nd fabrics.

In Africa, sculpture is a symbolic writing intended for ritual use. The artist who makes a fetish has been commissioned to do so, usually by a fetisher. The artist makes the fetish accessible to the Vodun user through the things that the object expresses; there is no functional quest for beauty. Everything is pared down to the essential, dedicated to the purpose of the object, which is primarily mystical, magical.

PATRICK VILAIRE - VODUN OBJECTS, Excerpted from the catalog Vodun: African Voodoo,Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2011

800- 1.000,- Euro

Height: 69 cm
Weight: 3,9 kg