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12/11/2025 - EATING ANDY WARHOL, 23s Blog, 15 november 2025

An original intentional contemporary artist attempt , with the ambition to have a long shelf life in contemporary art history.



Eating Andy Warhol  it is performance about consumption, creativity, and the price of fame,Warhol’s Legacy to Today’s “Consumption Culture” - exploration of mass production and today’s world of digital consumption.



Do you think that is it possible to eat Andy Warhol by eating a Campbell's soup can? Phenomenological inquiry performance by Sandro Dernini,

New York 1987

ARE WE BECOMING CANNIBALS?


Eating Andy Warhol is a fascinating and provocative performance, to connect with a much wider global audience then current western art market environment.

Eating Andy Warhol is a radical moment in art history reborn for the digital age — a performative act that transformed art consumption into a communal experience.


It as Not Just a Performance

Position Eating Andy Warhol as a living dialogue about art, consumerism, and identity — not just a historical avant-garde action.

Plexus’ Collaborative Spirit

Eating Andy Warhol is a participatory art that  shifts the focus from the spectacle of the performance to the collective symbolic act that defines it — the transformation of art into a participatory, communal experience. 


Eating Andy Warhol is a ritual of connection, a metaphoric communion — an act where participants symbolically “digest” the art system, fame, and consumer culture, a collective rite of creative renewal, where art is not consumed individually but shared as nourishment.


Eating Andy Warhol poses  today the question: what happens when the art object and the artist merge into one edible idea?”

Eating Art performance by Sandro Dernini, Carloforte, Sardinia, 1988

To eat Andy Warhol is to share in the myth of art, to transform the icon into nourishment for a new collective creativity.

 

 

 

When art becomes food: Eating Andy Warhol — a performance about consumption, creativity, and the price of fame. not just a 1980s art happening.

DEMATERIALIZATION OF ART AND REMATERIALIZATION OF REALITY


 

EATING ANDY WARHOL 

A SHARED RITUAL OF ART 

PLEXUS transforms the act of consumption into a collective gesture of creative communion.

In this symbolic feast, Andy Warhol — the artist who made consumption a form of art — becomes the metaphorical offering. By “eating” art, PLEXUS dissolve the boundary between creator and audience, between object and experience. Each participant becomes part of a living network of exchange, echoing the Plexus vision of art as an open system of participation.