A fragmentary Fon Fetish sculpture of a Maternity with numerous children, collected in Benin, with different attachments like fabric, iron, leather, partly haavy encrusted.

Wolfgang Jaenicke: Maternities in West African Art.

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: Les Objets du Vaudou/Vodun Objects. In: Vaudou/Vodun. In: Kat. Ausst. Photographies des oeuvres/Works photographed by Yuji Ono, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 4.5-9. 25, Paris, 2011, p. 220 (218-227). 

1.200 - 1.600,- Euro

Height: 82 cm
Weight: 7,3 kg