Daniel Arsham Venus Twins Necklace Is 18 Pieces at 45 Ounces Each

Forty-five ounces. That is 1,276 grams of metal hanging from a chain made entirely of miniature white gold hands. Daniel Arsham's Venus Twins Necklace is not jewelry in any conventional sense. It is a pendant-scale sculpture split down a clean fracture line; one half polished white gold, the other patinated bronze carrying the surface of oxidation and erosion that Arsham has spent two decades perfecting in galleries and museums. Eighteen pieces. That is the entire edition. Arsham is not testing the jewelry market. He is compressing his gallery practice into something you wear around your neck. ## 45 x 25 x 45mm. The Pendant Measures Like a Small Bronze. The pendant dimensions are 45 by 25 by 45 millimeters. It is dense. The white gold half catches light the way polished metal does in a vitrine; reflective, impossibly precise, contemporary in every surface detail. The bronze half carries a patinated green-brown surface that Arsham achieves through controlled chemical oxidation, the same process he uses on his eroded sculptures of basketballs, cameras, and classical busts. The fracture between the two halves is sharp and deliberate. It reads as a geological break, like something pulled apart by time rather than cut by a jeweler. That tension between the pristine and the decayed is the entire thesis of Arsham's body of work condensed into a wearable object. ## The Chain Is Sculpture, Not Hardware Most artists who produce jewelry use a standard chain and attach their piece to it. Arsham did not. The Venus Twins chain is composed of individual miniature white gold hands, linked together to form the suspension system. Each hand was cast separately and assembled by hand. The chain is not an accessory to the pendant. It is part of the sculpture. This is consistent with how Arsham approaches editions. His Porsche collaboration, his Tiffany work, his eroded Walkman series; every object gets the same material obsession regardless of scale. The hands reference classical sculpture, specifically the gesture of presentation you find in Renaissance Venus paintings. The chain literally holds the pendant the way hands hold a relic. ## Deliveries Ship August 7. The Edition Is Already Inquire-Only. The Venus Twins drops May 15 at noon ET through Arsham Editions, with each piece shipping by August 7, 2026. A 12-week production timeline for 18 units means each necklace is being produced individually, not batch-cast. The packaging is a custom wood and suede-lined box that Arsham designed to function as a permanent display case, signed by the artist. Arsham's market trajectory in 2026 positions him as one of the few contemporary artists who can move between gallery walls, automotive collaborations, and personal editions without any of them feeling like merchandise. The Venus Twins is priced at inquire-only, which in the Arsham economy typically means five figures minimum. At 18 units, the secondary market will price these before the primaries even ship. Eighteen pieces. Forty-five ounces. Hands holding time. The Venus Twins is the smallest Arsham has ever gone, and it might be the most concentrated statement he has made about what his work actually is.