Sif Itona Westerberg, 2022
Crux
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DKK 18,000
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"Crux" embodies Sif Itona Westerberg's reconstruction of classical imagery. It’s an examination of humanity and society, combining the classical and the modern.
Lead time: 8-12 weeks
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Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Sif Itona Westerberg
- Year
- 2022
- Material
- Blue and Brown Patinated Bronze (2 parts)
- Dimensions
- Approx 25 cm
- Edition
- Limited edition of 15 + 4 Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
The work
This dual-piece patinated bronze sculpture invites a dialogue between the shadowy, subcultural, and suppressed sides of humanity and our society. The seen and the unseen, the rational and the suppressed. Itona invites her viewer to be a part of this conversation. What does the combination of classical and modern mean to them?
Each piece is a visual exploration of new ecologies, relationships, and aesthetics that resonate with the modern era. "Crux" encourages readers to look deeper at the here and now. It looks to start conversations that help viewers think deeper about their world, past and present, known and unknown.
Materials & making
Cast bronze
Bronze holds detail that few materials can. Cast from the artist's original, each edition carries the same surface, weight and gravity, a physical record of the hand that made it, hardened into an alloy that will outlast everyone who touches it.
- Material
- Blue and Brown Patinated Bronze (2 parts)
- Dimensions
- Approx 25 cm
- Edition
- Limited edition of 15 + 4 Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
01
Mould and wax
The artist's original is captured in a flexible mould, from which a hollow wax replica is taken and refined by hand until every surface matches the source.
02
Lost-wax casting
The wax is encased in a ceramic shell and fired; the wax runs out and molten bronze is poured into the void it leaves, taking on the exact form of the original.
03
Chasing and assembly
The rough cast is released from its shell, sprues removed, and seams chased away by hand so the metal reads as a single continuous surface.
04
Patina and finish
The finished bronze is coloured with heat and chemistry, then sealed with a hand-applied patina unique to each edition.
Made at
Fonderia Artistica Mariani
Italy · Est. 1952
Founded in 1952, Fonderia Artistica Mariani is an Italian art foundry known for precision bronze casting. Each work is cast using the traditional lost-wax and vacuum-shell methods that capture the finest surface detail, then chased, finished and patinated by hand.
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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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- Artist
- Sif Itona Westerberg
- Title
- Crux
- Year
- 2022
- Material
- Blue and Brown Patinated Bronze (2 parts)
- Dimensions
- Approx 25 cm
- Edition size
- Limited edition of 15 + 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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