Madame Pickwick

I stumbled onto some pictures of some guy’s sculptures. Mostly animals and portraits and basic sculpture subjects like that.

So I kept on reading and I found out that the guy’s sculptures were made out of bubblegum. My first reaction was :”God I hope it’s not chewed bubblegum, it would be pretty gross to have to schlep those huge things around for this guy’s expos.

one of his many business men sculptures

The guy’s name is Maurizio Savini. He’s a sculpter from Italy. And his medium of choice is your average chewing gum. I find it just awesome that someone would think of making these huge sculptures out of stuff that you chew for hours and throw out after. You must have a pretty twisted mind to think of using food for art in size ( most of his stuff is life size)

I was relieved to find out he covered his artwork in formaldehyde and some kind of antibacterial. I also found he sculpts the gum with a knife while he blasts it with a heat gun, so he probably doesn’t chew it beforehand, which is somewhat disappointing in a weird way.