Maurizo Savini Biography
Maurizio Savini was born in Rome in 1962. He studied history of art and entertainment at the "La Sapienza" university of Rome. Throughout his career, he held his first solo exhibition in Dusseldorf and also worked in the field of scenography. He collaborated as assistant to the scenography for the opera Parsifal by R. Wagner, which debuted at the Salzburg theatre.
However, it is thanks to his soft and fruity sculptures made with chewing gum that Savini gained notoriety. In fact, his works of art are composed with chewing gum, in the characteristic Big Bubble pink color. Savini uses the unusual material to carry out an in-depth analysis on aspects of universal interest, such as geopolitics and human psychology. With the use of chewing gum, the artist explores the relationships between human beings and the surrounding world, testing the paradoxes between symbols and cultures, between nature and the interpretation given by men. The result is a hypermodern technique composed of monochromatic objects and simulacra, used to support and construct a series of snapshots of contemporary identity.
Savini's art is characterized by a cultural connotation all its own, committed and cultured, which addresses the lightness of childhood, reworking a sweet and surprising, ephemeral and perishable material, similar to contemporary reality.
