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Sigmund Freud, Zarathustra the Cat and Sarah Lucas analyse the meaning of eggs

May

Analyse this: Freud’s Couch, Fried Eggs and the Fat Cat on the Mat

Once upon a time, at a warm spring evening, Sigmund Freud, who just celebtated his 159 birthday, Zarathustra the Cat and Sarah Lucas, an artist who is famous for her selfie in a fried eggs bra, and who is now representing UK at Venice Biennale, they came together. The company...

Jun

Aivazovsky, Ivan Argunov, Venetsianov, Boris Kustodiev, Dmitry Levitsky, Malevich, Vassiy Perov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Chagall

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...

May

Banksy

Banksy or not Banksy?

“Banksy or not Banksy?” – This is the question that should every modern Hamlet to ask instead of usual “To be or not to be?”. What to do if, waking up in the morning, you see a fresh graffiti on the wall of your house? To take off the masterpiece from the wall ruining it, and to...

Feb

Damien Hirst

Genius and villainy

Today We, Zarathustra the Cat, would like to offer to our audience a theme for discussion: Is the artist allowed to kill animals for the sake of Art? And do we, not human beings, have a chance to join the beautiful staying alive. Recently one of the most popular now living...

Jun

Leonardo da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp

Anonimous Cat

As We, Zarathustra the Cat showed previously, Internet cats have wave–particle duality, they spread like tsunami and according to Heisenberg uncertainty principle for particles, the can occupy different positions in space at the same time. Other interesting quality of Internet...

Jun

Vadim Zakharov, Venice Biennale, Jeremy Deller

The Splendors and Miseries of the Venice Biennale

Last Saturday there was time for Golden Lions – the main awards of the Venice Biennale. This Caturday We Zarathustra theCat are giving our main award – the Golden Cat. And the Golden Cat goes to Vadim Zakharov for the work “Danae”. Not because he is Our...

Apr

Grant Wood

Rational explanation wanted!

We Zarathustra the Cat are so kind to share with you Our impressions from Manifesto 13 exhibition at Rizzordi Art Foundation, St.Petersburg, Russia. The question came to Our mind: Why curators and art critics treat this work by Max Papeschi as art, and “Famous Paintings...

Apr

One Day in the Life of the Internet Cat

Internet Kitteh is omnipresent and omnipotent. It haz wave–particle duality: it spreads like tsunami and according to Heisenberg uncertainty principle for particles, it can occupy different positions in space at the same time. On Friday We, Zarathustra the Cat presented to New...

Feb

Joseph Beuys

How to Explain Pictures to a Fat Cat

In 1965 famous German artist Joseph Beuys explained to the humanity how to explain pictures to a dead hare. It was not a hard task having in mind that dead hares are very obedient pupils in general. Did one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century...

Dec

Max Hattler

Abstract cat in vacuum

We, Zarathustra the Cat, had kindly spent two months wondering in the pure fields of abstraction. Some fans of Our noble species don’t believe that a cat can be depicted by means of abstract art. “How does an abstract cat look like?” they ask with scepticism....

Aug

cinema, Cats and the City

Cats and the City

Festival, I haz it! 17 August 2012, for the first time in the history of mankind the serious human cinema festival included in its program viral videos with cats. Russia, St.Petersburg, Palace Bridge, festival Multivision – graFFFest, 30 000 spectators, “Cats in the...

Aug

Lucas Cranach The Elder, National Gallery of Denmark

To share or to save?

We had a symbolic incident when We left Our Penates to spread good news in Our city as last year we did. We have kindly decided to promote street-art, essential meaning of which is to be a generous gift from the artists to people, regardless of their will. We have settled down...