Martin Eder • Stille wohnt in blauen Räumen (Silence Dwells in Blue Rooms) • 2007 • oil on canvas • 110 x 80 cm / 43 x 31 • private collection • via: I love you & Hauser & Wirth
Martin Eder • Stille wohnt in blauen Räumen (Silence Dwells in Blue Rooms) • 2007 • oil on canvas • 110 x 80 cm / 43 x 31 • private collection • via: I love you & Hauser & Wirth
Gertrude Abercrombie • The Stroll • n.d. • oil on fiberboard • 27.5 x 35 inches • Smithsonian American Art Museum
Dieter Roth • DOGS (26) from 2 times 5 DOGS (22/100) • 1979 • pencil on paper • collection of Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Chris Marker • Chat écoutant la musique (Cat listening to music) • video • 2 mins 56 secs
Newbold Hough Trotter • Mischief • 1858 • oil on canvas • 20 x 24 inches • signed Newbold H. Trotter and dated (lower right) • courtesy of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Jake & Dinos Chapman • Gigantic Fun • 2000 • etching from a portfolio of 83
37 x 42.3 cm • via: Tate Etc.
Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita • Autoportrait au chat • 1926 • watercolor & india ink on paper • 23 cm square • signed, signed again in Japanese, dated & located “Foujita July 1926 in Paris” (bottom left) • via: Christie’s
Liam Gillick • Wie würden Sie sich verhalten? Eine Küchenkatze spricht. How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks • Installation view of the German Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale • image via Tragicomic
A KITCHEN CAT SPEAKS
Liam Gillick
There will be a cat that can speak. All the people of the town will be very proud of their speaking cat.
People will come every day to hear what it has to say.
It will be very cynical but never mean.
It will see everything and understand it all.
After a while people will only come on the weekends or drop by on the way home from work or school.
During quiet times people will come and read all the newspapers to the cat or surf the Internet and find good stories about world affairs that might be of interest.
One morning it will rain.
Things will have been very quiet in the world and the cat will have nothing to say. You might even think that the cat will be mildly depressed.