Aldo Mondino was an Italian sculptor and painter.

Was an artist characterized by an ironic approach to art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

, with which he used to play a lot.
For his works he used many different kinds of materials, from caramel and chocolate, to a more traditional oil painting (but on plastic sheets).

Very important are his mosaics realized using chocolate

Chocolate

Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...

, seeds, coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...

, legumes and many other different materials.