Laurids Gallée, 2025
MELD FISHIES
Collector work
DKK 119,500
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This series explores the sculptural weight and symbolic legacy of the three materials - marble, bronze, and glass - historically associated with permanence, power, and opulence.
Lead time: 8-12 weeks
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Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Laurids Gallée
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Green patinated bronze
- Dimensions
- 480 x 466 x 497 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
The work
Rather than reaffirming traditional uses, the pieces aim to transform the iconography tied to these materials. Drawing on some of the oldest sculptural processes— carving, shaping, casting - the work departs from classical representations of idealized bodies and proposes a visual language that is stylized, surreal, and emotionally charged.
In ‘Meld Fishies’, ‘Morph Horsies’, and ‘Stack Fishies’, the forms are inflated, primitive, and hybrid. Shapes of horses and fishes blend into one another, their outlines thickened, their identities blurred.
The resulting figures appear fused and sometimes comically, sometimes grotesquely, evoking a sense of tragic absurdity. Beneath the playful exterior lies a reflection on how the animal form is both glorified and exploited. Through this fusion of ancient technique and contemporary sensibility the work references the past while speaking to the present.
Made to order. Delivery time 8-12 weeks.
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
- Green patinated bronze
- Dimensions
- 480 x 466 x 497 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + 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
Laurids Gallée
Rotterdam, Netherlands · Design, Furniture, Lighting, Resin Objects
Laurids Gallée is an Austrian designer based in Rotterdam who briefly studied anthropology before graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2015. He subsequently worked in the studio of Dutch designer Chris Kabel before opening Studio Laurids Gallée in Rotterdam in 2017.
His work — most notably the Tralucid and Metropolis collections of resin furniture — bridges traditional craftsmanship and contemporary manufacturing, characterised by a playfulness that foregrounds material over pure functionality. His designs have been presented in collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci, among others.
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- Artist
- Laurids Gallée
- Title
- MELD FISHIES
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Green patinated bronze
- Dimensions
- 480 x 466 x 497 mm.
- Edition size
- 14 + 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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