In an ironic parody of the civilization of images, Maurizio Savini mimics Pop Art and models with chewing gum some of the symbolic figures of our time, meditating on the contrast of nature and artifice, ecology and industrial manipulation on which the 'factory of illusions' is fed in the modern society of entertainment.

Does the world fly? Of course, and everything happens simultaneously, just as the two worlds of the 59th Spoleto Festival fly, between information, art, entertainment, culture and pervasive telematic connection that unites space and time in a dense and immediate representation of the present... the world turns, changes its appearance and generates continuous questions that multiply the bewildering search for indecipherable meanings. Maurizio Savini amalgamates a parable on the historicity of a possible 'eternal return of the identical' and suggests a smiling loss of meaning, the detachment from the original nature increasingly shaped and counterfeited by chemical artifice, as a metaphorical bearer of human expression, translated into a tasty and emblematic sculpture resolved on the surface as the epithelium of a from chewing gum: the advertising fetish, the object of the most basic and widespread consumption, are thus presented as a symptomatic allegory of the cosmic multiverse reflected in the contemporary aesthetic condition. Irony, allusiveness, playful visual elaboration of the myths and rituals of a globalized culture and society, are ingredients of Savini's witty and bewildering poetics that cheerfully solicits our historical present and mirrors its cult-like appearances in a shifting pantomime removed from the ghosts of the collective imagination.

Duccio Trombadori