Bjørn Magnussen, 2025
Protector - Bronze Sculpture by Bjørn Magnussen
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DKK 12,500
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"Beskytter" (Protector) by Bjørn Magnussen is a figure of protection and guardianship, expressed in dark green patinated bronze. The piece emerges from Magnussen's working method, which he calls the "intuition revolution," where intuition and gut feeling guide the work towards its final form.
Lead time: 8-12 weeks
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- Artist
- Bjørn Magnussen
- Material
- Dark green patinated bronze
- Dimensions
- 25 x 10 cm
- Edition
- Limited edition of 30 + 4 Artist's Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
The work
Magnussen's approach sets planning aside and lets intuition lead. This method, born from a life with ADHD and Tourette's syndrome, gives the work an unfiltered, direct expression.
The spontaneity of the piece offers a view into thought before it is edited. "Beskytter" (Protector) asks viewers to consider their own intuition and to trust it more.
Materials and making
Cast bronze
Bronze holds detail that few materials can. Each bronze is cast from the same mould and hand-chased to retain the detail of the artist's original. Patina is applied individually, so tonal and surface variation should be expected across the edition.
- Material
- Dark green patinated bronze
- Dimensions
- 25 x 10 cm
- Edition
- Limited edition of 30 + 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
Bjørn Magnussen
1996, Copenhagen, Denmark · Painting, Sculpture, Public Commission, Drawing
Bjørn Magnussen is a self-taught Danish artist working across painting, stone sculpture and large-scale public commissions. He describes his method as an "Intuition Revolution": a refusal to work from sketches, developed in part through living with ADHD and Tourette's syndrome, that prioritises instinct and bodily feeling over advance planning. He draws two or three times a day, treating those drawings not as studies but as finished miniature works in their own right.
His practice deliberately moves between the folkelige and the rarefied: a mural at Nørrebro Bycenter and a project at the restaurant Uformel in Copenhagen sit alongside institutional exhibitions. He was awarded the Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat Talent Prize in 2024. His solo exhibition Åbent for alt ran at Holmegaard Værk (2023 to 2024), and in 2026 he curated Intuition Revolution at Sophienholm, Kgs. Lyngby, bringing together artists including Inge Bjørn, Maria Koshenkova, Astrid Seberg, Anna Milman, Tim Bertram, Julius Iversen and Jacob Sej.
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Details
- Artist
- Bjørn Magnussen
- Title
- Protector - Bronze Sculpture by Bjørn Magnussen
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Dark green patinated bronze
- Dimensions
- 25 x 10 cm
- Edition size
- Limited edition of 30 + 4 Artist's Proofs (AP)
- Signature / marking
- Engraved
- Publisher
- Edition Solenne, Copenhagen
- Primary market release
- 2025
- Acquisition
- Acquired directly from Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 8-12 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed and numbered by the artist and publisher
- Returns
- Consumers in the EU may withdraw within 14 days of delivery, except where the work is produced to individual specification, as stated on the invoice. Contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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