Nevena Ivanovic Guagliumi Italy Painting

The series "Eat, buy, consume, live" is the open critique on the Consumerism, as the New Era Religion, in which the money is the only criterion of value, the only indicator of personal enrichment. My intention is to remind about our daily bread that we don't consume materially.

Triggered by Ljubomir Simovi?'s question: "Here, where is everything to eat, is there anything that feeds," I am building compositions based on iconographic postulates. Appointed in rather abstract space, showing people celebrating, singing, drunk, at the table on which- books are served.

I turned to traditional drawing techniques, thus suggesting what is the fundament of our essence- knowledge. By attaching handmade books and written pieces of papers on artwork surfaces, making them partially assemblages, I am inviting a beholder to become a participant, to join the fiesta, and consume it.