maurizio saviani chewing gum couture
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July 13, 2008, 6:36 am
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, chewing gum, fibreglass, gum, maurizio savini, pink, sculpture
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I came across these amazing works by Italian artist Maurizio Savini at the art of the prank recently. They’re not made entirely out of gum alone but fibreglass too, to produce these surprisingly detailed sculptures. I like that he seems to have chosen to use only the pink kind. |
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And according to Mario Codognato,
| Chewing-gum, as a matter of fact known in Italian also as “ American gum “, was introduced by American soldiers with the end of World war two together with jeans, nylon, stocking and boggie-woggie. Its association with a state of euphoria of change and carefree youthfulness some how carried on in the following decades. Also for those born in the sixties as Maurizio Savini and I, chewing-gum reaches in the mind ‘s meanders at a tie with childhood and adolescence, and a light pressure of a future still to be built and dreamt and the slaughterhouse of personal and collective memories of the past which is gone, no one knows where when and with whom. |
This may be a bit of a pink overload. I can’t help but wonder what these sculpture would melt as? Fibreglass would presumably be able to withstand pretty high temperatures, leavig the gum to shrivel up into oblivion. Afternow also has an interesting post on this.
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the savini’s works are very beautiful and very interesting
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