CULT OF THE OBJECT

Cult of the Object is a platform about art objects and the stories they tell.

🐳🦭🦐🪸Sea Matryoshka – A whimsical set of nesting dolls featuring a sequence of sea creatures: a whale, seal, penguin, fish, calamari, sea cucumber, and plankton. Created in Semenov, Russia, for Helsinki-based studio Company.⁣ via @archaeolog
Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with antlers Cypriot, ca. 1725–1600 BCE. The animal represented is likely a native species of deer. Bones of wild deer have been found at prehistoric sites on the island. Back at the @metmuseum where I spent
Joan Miró molded LUNAR BIRD (1946) directly with his hands, forgoing prepartory drawings. The object’s lunar-shaped face has stylistic and thematic similarities with Miró’s other cosmically themed works. #joanmiró
Stuhlsaurier / Stoolsaurier by @stefanrinck Courtesy @ninomiergallery
Opening this week @salon94design in New York are Hella Jongerius’s very relevant sculptures of Angry Animals. This ‘Angry Animals Series 2 is a menagerie of furious (rightly so!), life-size porcelain portraits exploring the increasingly
Via @archaeologyart ・・・ Snuffbox, Paris, c. 1740. Crafted from gold and mother of pearl. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.⁣ ⁣ #snuffbox #18thcentury #luxuryaccessories #artandhistory #frenchcraftsmanship #motherofpearl #gold
Pendant in the Form of a Spider. Possibly Chiriquí. Costa Rica, c. A.D. 1000-1500 @brooklynmuseum via @archaeologyart In Costa Rica gold animal pendants were often worn by and buried with elite members of Chiriquí society. The eagle&
RUTH ASAWA 〰️🕸️〰️ 1~ Untitled (S.310, Hanging Five-Lobed Continuous Form Within a Form with Spheres in the 2nd, 3rd, and Bottom Lobes), c. 1954 Hanging sculpture-copper and brass wire 2~ Untitled (S.524, Hanging Miniature Single Section, Reversibl
〰️♠️〰️ Ceramic cone and squiggle by @ashleyrhardy #ashleyhardy
〰️🩵〰️ Cloudbloom (2023) by @janny.baek colored porcelain. 💚〰️💜 #ceramics #ceramicsculpture #ceramicvessel #contemporaryceramics #art #sculpture #fantasy #futuristic #lifeform #biomorphic #clouds #flora #sculptor #jannybaek
Ancient Greek marble Vessel carved in the form of a Pelican’s Foot Seashell 425 BC discovered via @mayabouci
« Rock Fan » (1997) by David Hammons 〰️ #DavidHammons
Continuing the theme and in honour of FEELINGS, the exhibition of work by COSIMA VON BONIN that opened @schirnkunsthalle last night, here is: WHAT IF IT BARKS 5 (PETITE VERSION WITH BLUE UKULELE), 2018 on view @schirnkunsthalle ~~~• image ta
💦💦RIO KOBAYASHI💦💦 @riokobayashi_d Fatty tuna table (Fisch Tisch), 2018 hand painted by @jameshagueartist 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 #yesplease #cultoftheobject #riokobayashi
‘Nice legs, what time do they open?’ 2017 by Toronto-based artist Claire Greenshaw (@mrs_woman) photo taken from her show “Mother Tongue” @clintroenisch ~~• via @nik_gallo ~~• #clairegreesnhaw
I have this image saved in my archive since over 5 years and finally found out they’re by @eriimamura.beads yay! 🌛✨🕯️🪸
Opening last night is HECHO A MANO @ceciliabrunsonprojects, bringing both modern and contemporary Latin American artists whose work have evidence of ‘the hand’. Above, a newly commissioned work by Peruvian artist Fátima Rodrigo f
Post-Xmas mood courtesy René Magritte “Ceci est un morceau de fromage”, 1963–1964 Seen at the Deisgn Museum, London, earlier this year. 🧀 #renemagritte
〰️➰ Alexander Calder Vertical Constellation with Bomb, 1943 As a metaphor for works consisting of small points or shapes distributed in loose but fixed configurations across a field or through space, the image of the “constellation” seem
〰️➰ BREYER P-ORRIDGE Shoe Horn #4, 2014 Ram horn, shoe worn by Genesis as Lady Sarah (he/r dominatrix persona), sting ray skin, ermine fur, bone, Nepalese fabric-printing square, brass netting, copper ball 9 x 9 x 8 in (22.9 x 22.9 x 20.3 cm) via @ne