Maurizio Savini

Chewing-gum (also known in Italian also as “American gum“), was introduced by American soldiers at the end of World War 2 together with jeans, nylon, stocking and boggie-woogie. Its association with a state of euphoria, change and carefree youthfulness somehow carried on in the following decades. Also for those born in the sixties as Maurizio Savini, chewing-gum is a tie with childhood and adolescence.

I tried to find out some more information on Maurizo, and the funny thing about the internet is that everything is the same,..."american gum....childhood...adolescence...". His work is amazingly time consuming, and eerie. For more pics of his sculptures check out Kanye West's Blog. BTW if you did not know, Kanye has a pretty nice collection of art.