Laurids Gallée, 2025
MORPH HORSIES
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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
- Bianco C Marble
- Dimensions
- 490 x 528 x 498 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.
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
- Bianco C Marble
- Dimensions
- 490 x 528 x 498 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + 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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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
- MORPH HORSIES
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Bianco C Marble
- Dimensions
- 490 x 528 x 498 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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