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The Cat's Pyjamas BB Gallery BB. Jatki str. 3-6, Wrocław 16.02. - 5.03 2005 group exhibition On 28 February we are celebrating Cat Day. This holiday was announced three years ago by Anita Bialic, owner of BB Gallery, who has been acquiring more and more "feline" allies among her artist friends. The Cat's Pyjamas exhibit at Wroclaw's BB Gallery, organised by Anita Bialic and Anita Szprych, stands as testimony to this. Paintings, photography, sculpture, objects, installations, video... and cats, everywhere. They purr, swish, walk softly and (since they are cats) only where they please, they get into cat-fights... When the cat wants something, it can be a kitty, pussy, kit or puss-puss... But when it gets what it wants, it quickly changes into a CAT, a furball, fleabag... Its feline kingdom is the world of roofs, attics and fences... Why a cat precisely? There is perhaps no animal as enigmatic as the cat... It has been the subject of cults, a mascot, a hunter of rodents... It has been tolerated, valued, or conversely, treated with suspicion. Many attributes have been assigned to it: calm, resilience, intelligence and independence, but also falsity and deception... The meaning of feline symbols has been different in various times and cultures. The cat became a pagan symbol of fertility, it personified the warmth of the home hearth. It has also been considered the incarnation of evil and an omen of ill fortune - many superstitions are associated with it to the present day. Cats were and continue to be inspiring for artists. In our childhoods we encounter "Puss in Boots" and "The Cat in the Hat," and then later on we try to tame it for ourselves - or it tries to tame us... |
