Sif Itona Westerberg, 2025
Heart
Collector work
DKK 26,250
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Heart depicts a serene upper body intertwined with branching organic forms that rise across the chest. The relief balances human anatomy and vegetal growth, turning the marble surface into a living membrane where body and nature merge. The soft curves of the lips and the quiet upward movement suggest renewal and connection rather than rupture.
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 by hand in Carrara marble, the work carries both fragility and permanence. Each edition varies slightly in veining and depth, revealing Westerberg’s attention to the tactile dialogue between the carved line and the living form it evokes.
What aspect of the inner life does Heart address?
The emotional chamber: the first aperture toward aliveness, sensitivity, and relational openness.
How is this expressed in the work’s form?
Through softened openings and organic emergence that signal a direct line to feeling and responsiveness rather than protection.
Why does Heart avoid sentimentality?
The piece frames emotion as structural, not decorative—an infrastructural part of being human.
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
- Heart
- 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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