18-CARAT SOLID GOLD CHEWING GUM (THREE SEPARATE ITEMS)

(Giorno, John)
Levine, Les
18-CARAT SOLID GOLD CHEWING GUM
NYC: Fischbach Gallery 1972
14.4 x 17cm, 2pp full colour postcard with recto image of the sculpture, verso gallery details. Mailed with minor edge damage.
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18-CARAT SOLID GOLD CHEWING GUM
NYC: Museum of Mott Art/ Fischbach Gallery, 1972
32 x 23cm, 1pp, Full colour promotional leaflet and small poster for the sculpture with a long text by John Giorno and two small images - one of the sculpture. Folded for mailing otherwise fine.
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18-CARAT SOLID GOLD CHEWING GUM
NYC: Fischbach Gallery, 1972
27.9 x 22cm, 1pp b/w textual press preview announcement. Folded for mailing otherwise fine.

Together three separate items for Levine's deliberate provocation where the works were made by casting 30 different Wrigley Double-Mint gum strips in gold after the artist had masticated each for 2 minutes. Giorno's text clearly places the work in the body art tradition and is (in Levine's fine tradition) very funny. Levine is quoted as saying "It's a disgrace that all those sculptors have to work so hard to produce something that could have been done by sitting at home chewing gum."

Price is for all three items as a group