https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-gooey-chewing-gum-sculptures-of-maurizio-savini.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-gooey-chewing-gum-sculptures-of-maurizio-savini A collection of oddities that includes weird places, strange people, bizarre events and other odd stuff from all around the world Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-gooey-chewing-gum-sculptures-of-maurizio-savini.html#comment-363410 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:24:00 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=19255#comment-363410 […] Does he actually chew the gum? Yes. It’s actually part of the experience. Here’s how he feels about his work, in his own words: The sensual act of chewing, the voluptuous warmth of rebelling saliva, the artificial and secretly aseptic fragrance which spreads from the mouth as a promise and missed kiss. The synthetic fleshliness of the pink color, the obsessive square shape of the product unwrapped and ready to be shred to pieces by the power of the tongue, all compete in crashing on the senses. Applying all this to the power and energy of the Sculpture and its history causes a short circuit having the capacity of turning the ludic into stately and vice versa. The strict minimalism of parallelepiped is subverted by the uniform coating with many bars of chewing-gum completely cover it, rendering chewable to desire, soft and provoking to forbidden touch, what was abstract and distant. (sourced from OddityCentral.com) […]

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