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M.chat2015

State Chancellery Saarland

State Chancellery Saarland
Saarbrücken, Germany

The cat on a hot tin roof. A cheekily grinning yellow street cat that, with good reason, has achieved urban cult status. Its favorite play areas are the seemingly inaccessible spaces above city rooftops. Indeed, many people who see the cat end up wondering how on earth its creator got up there. And this is precisely the sense mystery that the cat seeks to spread, showing that you can make the allegedly impossible possible, and do the things prohibitions stipulate you can’t. The key to understanding graffiti. The type of dialog the cat is likely to regularly inspire goes something like this: "Dad, how did the yellow cat get up there?" – "Someone painted it there." – "Was he allowed to do that?" – "Not really ..." And with that, another young mind escapes the clutches of conformity. Monsieur Chat. But is this the name of the cat or its creator? Probably both. Thoma Vuille is the artist behind the cat, which made its first unsolicited appearances on walls in Orléans in 1997. Vuille then took his cat to Paris and, from there, on to various world cities, including New York and Tokyo. M. Chat has also been sighted in more unusual locations in Africa and in the Balkans, and also paid visits to various museums and t Push the bottom emples, where it courteously takes the form of a human-sized sculpture.

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  • Title: Push the bottom
  • Creator: M.chat
  • Date Created: 2015
  • Rights: Staatskanzlei Saarland
  • Medium: spray paint
State Chancellery Saarland

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