Italian Artist Maurizio Savini creates different sculptures, from a man hanging on a ledge to a crocodile out of bubblegum. That might sound ridiculous or interesting (depending on your take on bubblegum), but the process involved in the creation of these bright pink and white sculptures takes more than chewing the gum he needs, as the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery details:
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With a process as unique as his aesthetic, Maurizio and his two assistants unwrap then apply heat to thousands of half white, half bright pink bubble gum squares without chewing a single piece, so they can easily be manipulated, cut with a knife, and applied to plaster mold like traditional clay. Maurizio notes, “The mold is crucial” – without it, his tacky sculptures would be far too unstable. After molding the chewing gum into his desired shapes, Maurizio fixes and preserves his sculptures with a mixture of formaldehyde and antibiotics, so his works will be in tact for generations of Romans to come. This labor-intensive process at times calls for nearly 3,000 individual pieces of bubble gum per sculpture.
(via The Jealous Curator)
image credit: via the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
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