Sif Itona Westerberg, 2025
Cavity
Collector work
DKK 26,250
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Cavity portrays a hand meeting an organic structure that seems to grow from within the marble itself. The touch is light, almost cautious, revealing the intersection between human gesture and natural formation. Branching and cellular patterns unfold beneath the fingers, suggesting both emergence and containment—a moment where the living form presses outward yet remains held by the stone.
Lead time: 8-12 weeks
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Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Sif Itona Westerberg
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Carrara Bianco C Marble
- Dimensions
- 35h × 25w cm
- Edition
- 12 + 4 Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
The work
Carved in Carrara marble with Westerberg’s characteristic precision, each relief carries subtle variations in depth and surface, emphasizing the dialogue between craft and the slow movement of transformation. The work captures tenderness within material weight, a quiet exchange between body, matter, and time.
What does Cavity represent?
The hollow interior filled with archaic memory, dormant nature, and long-buried connections.
How is the archaic dimension articulated?
Through deeper recesses, darker voids, and organic growths that resemble fossils, roots, or sedimented traces.
Why is the cavity portrayed as potent rather than empty?
Its hollowness is generative—an interior archive of instinct, ancestry, and latent energy.
Materials & making
Hand-carved marble
Marble is worked by removal; nothing is added back. Each block is unique, and the carver reads its veining and density before the first cut. What remains is stone that has been in the ground for millions of years, shaped over months into a single, unrepeatable object.
- Material
- Carrara Bianco C Marble
- Dimensions
- 35h × 25w cm
- Edition
- 12 + 4 Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
01
Selecting the block
Stone is chosen from the Apuan quarries above Pietrasanta, assessed for grain, colour and freedom from flaws before work begins.
02
Roughing out
The mass is reduced toward the form using point and tooth chisels, establishing proportion and volume from the solid block.
03
Carving the detail
Master carvers refine the surface with rasp, riffler and drill, translating the artist's intent into stone by hand.
04
Finishing
The surface is worked from coarse to fine (matte, honed or polished) according to the work, revealing the marble's depth.
Made at
Massimo Galleni
Pietrasanta, Italy · Est. 1995
Massimo Galleni's studio in Pietrasanta has carved marble by hand since 1995, working in the Versilia tradition at the foot of the Apuan Alps. His team of master carvers realises sculpture with chisel, rasp and drill for leading contemporary artists.
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Film
Heart, Core, Cavity — Sif Itona Westerberg
The artist
Sif Itona Westerberg
1985, Copenhagen, Denmark · Sculpture
Sif Itona Westerberg reinterprets classical mythology through contemporary sculptural form, hand-carving aerated concrete or casting in bronze. Her work explores the dualities of nature and culture, investigating the monstrous and the divine from a contemporary perspective.
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Details
- Artist
- Sif Itona Westerberg
- Title
- Cavity
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Carrara Bianco C Marble
- Dimensions
- 35h × 25w cm
- Edition size
- 12 + 4 Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature / marking
- Engraved
- Provenance
- First sale, Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 8-12 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed certificate of authenticity included
- Returns
- Made to order. Sales are final once production begins; contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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