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The Exhibition that shook the world

Our beloved friends, We are happy to announce that for the first time in the history of mankind the exhibition of the Internet kitteh as a piece of art took place. It was in UK, in Abingdon, at Stonehill Barn, 29th May – 5th of July, an exhibition with the name “From ICONS to I-CATS” and We, Zarathustra the Cat was the main hero of it.  We presented there 12 pieces of Russian art from 18th to 20th century, carefully restored by Us to reveal a cat hidden in each of them.
The main piece of the exhibition was a masterpiece by Ilya Repin, “Sadko at the Underwater Kingdom”, The painting features a story from Russian folk tale. Sadko the merchant arrives at the Underwater Kingdom and sees a parade of submarine princesses but he thinks about his fiancee at his homeland.

Ilya Repin “Sadko and the Underwater Fat Cat”

Ilya Repin “Sadko and the Underwater Fat Cat”

During restoration works it appears that the master painted an underwater fat cat as symbol of wealth that seduces the merchant,

Ilya Repin “Sadko and the Underwater Fat Cat”, detail

Ilya Repin “Sadko and the Underwater Fat Cat”, detail

His fiancee that rescues a stray kitty symbolizes the appeal to the charity that every merchant should follow for the sake of humans and cats in need.

Ilya Repin “Sadko and the Underwater Fat Cat”, detail

Ilya Repin “Sadko and the Underwater Fat Cat”, detail

This painting, alongside with 11 others, that We feature in a gallery below (and We’ll tell more about late)r, was exhibited in a beautiful 17th-century building of the former barn. Generations of cats hunted mice there, generously helping humans to keep their harvests safe. Now We came to the barn also to help humans, to make them recognize Internet memes as a new genre of art.
Not long ago graffiti and street art found their way to galleries and museums, now it’s a turn of memes.
Our exhibition was the first step in this way. It was a milestone in a human art history. Before it happened, there were few exhibitions dedicated to different internet cats, but never before a LOLcat, an Internet meme itself was treated as a piece of art.
Mankind was shaken and human news was full of our images, We were at the top of the BBC and  the Huffington Post and nobody have counted reposts.
UK Channel 4 made a report of the exhibition, and you can have an idea how it was by their shots. Please don’t pay attention at my humble assistant, who was forced to represent Us because of severe cats immigration laws in UK, just have a look at the Barn and at the paintings:

We made a limited edition prints series dedicated to this exhibition, and you can buy them at our shop, soon we upload them there

Here are photos of the paintings at the Stonehill Barn walls:

Dmitry Levitsky "Portrait of Catherine II the Legislator with Cat as the Symbol of Justice" / Дмитрий Левицкий "Портрет Екатерины II - законодательницы в храме Кота как символа Правосудия" Levitsky "Portrait of Catherine II"
Ivan Argunov “Portrait of an Unknown Woman in Russian Costume and a Well-Known Cat in a Vet Collar” / Иван Аргунов “Портрет неизвестной дамы в русском костюме и очень известного кота в ветеринарном воротнике” Argunov “Unknown Woman and a Well-Known Cat”
Aleksey Venetsianov "In the ploughed field. Spring. Cats at work" / Алексей Венецианов "В поле. Весна. Коты в работе" Venetsianov "Cats at work"
Vassily Perov “The Hunter’s Rest” / Василий Перов “Охотники на привале” Perov “The Hunter’s Rest”
Ivan Ayvazovsky "The 9th life" / Иван Айвазовский "Девятый вал, или Девятая жизнь" Ayvazovsky "The 9th life"
Ilya Repin “Sadko and the Underwater Fat Cat” / Илья Репин “Садко и подводный Толстый Кот” Repin “Sadko and the Underwater Fat Cat”
Boris Kustodiev "The Cat's Tea  with Merchant’s  Wife" / Борис Кустодиев "Купчиха за чаем, или, точнее, Купчиха за Котом" Kustodiev "The Cat's Tea with Merchant’s Wife"
Valentin Serov “Ida Rubinstein and The Cat“ / Валентин Серов “Ида Рубинштейн и Кот“ Serov “Ida Rubinstein and The Cat“
Marc Chagall “Occupy the Sky” / Марк Шагал “Над городом. Occupy the Sky” Marc Chagall “Occupy the Sky”
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, “Spring” / Кузьма Петров-Водкин, “Весна” Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, “Spring”
Kazimir Malevich, “Complex Presentiment” /Казимир Малевич, “Сложное предчувствие” Kazimir Malevich, “Complex Presentiment”
Kazimir Malevich, “Red Red Cat-valry” / Казимир Малевич, “Красная Кот-ница” Kazimir Malevich, “Red Cat-valry”
At the Stonehill Barn./ В Стоунхилл Барн At the Stonehill Barn. В Стоунхилл Барн
At the Stonehill Barn/ В Стоунхилл Барн At the Stonehill Barn. В Стоунхилл Барн
At the Stonehill Barn. В Стоунхилл Барн At the Stonehill Barn. В Стоунхилл Барн
We at the Barn, as Abingdon Blog imagined /  А вот и Мы в амбаре, подстерегаем мышей и любителей искусства, как Нас представил Абингдон блог The cat hunts mice and art at the Barn

We were so kind to appear at the #1 at Good Morning America  and to improve  the Pop News presenter Gio Benitez
good-morning

Here We go!

Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat

 

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