ABOUT

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GUMM (born 1969) is an anonymous Italian artist, best known for his trademark "crushed" technique.Self-taught photographer he celebrates mass-produced consumer products related to  entertainment and references the Pop art roots of these works. His interest has focused on vintage comics and magazines of the most enduring and recognizable characters of the twentieth century, keeping homesickness  and feelings to them connecte. Combining  mega-realistic  photography techniques, he  represents  iconic symbols revisited  in  a  contemporary  key through the use of new colors and shapes.   His sculptural work focuses on expressing on canvas the maximum definition  and  depth that for  him  is  the  surface, the compressed and crushed matter folded by the artist's hand gives the work abstract forms that suggest movement and a sense  of  transformation  that  goes  beyond  the  fragility of  the  paper objects that alludes to the passage of time.