Bibliomania (2026) Original Mixed-media Painting by Tetiana Cherevan

Detached from reality

“Bibliomania is not a love of reading, nor is it romantic.
It is an obsessive attraction to the book as an object, and to knowledge as a form of escape.”

— It is a state in which a book holds you more firmly than the ground beneath your feet.
It is a mechanism of survival.

No one has ever loved like this. Across thousands of years
such love comes only rarely.
On such a day, spring blossoms on the earth,
and the earth adorns itself from the morning.

— Volodymyr Sosiura(ukrainian poet- words on the body)

Technique of creation

The letters are created from a strong material.
The sand that I collected by the sea became the basis for them, like a strong foundation that holds the words.

Around the female figure, the background is laid out with copper sheets.
Behind her, a graphic landscape unfolds in black lines, reminiscent of an engraving. The mountains combine the silhouettes of Montserrat and the Carpathians — two geographies, two roots. The line is strict, inspired by the works of Dürer, like history carved into time. The landscape extends beyond the oval frame, like a memory that cannot be contained within a single form.

Materials used:

oil, acrylic, modeling paste, bronze leaf, linen

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 120 x 90 x 3cm (unframed) / 120 x 90cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: People and portraits