WHOEVER LOVES CATS WILL LOVE HIS WIFE, TOO №8 Painting

“Seeking a wife” The prompting which lays behind this series of artistic portraits was the presentation of user photographs on internet dating sites. The phrases which the users wrote about themselves became the titles for the pictures. The presence of cats in the photos became the guiding line for the story, and the starting point for the investigation. The main theory was the parallels between the relationships those photographed had with their pets, and the kind of relationship they were looking for with their putative Ideal Life-Partner. The lonely symbiosis of man and cat offers a multitude of possibilities. The scene is set against many backdrops – from rooms at home to beach holidays. The lack of information in the photos the users chose conspires to suggest a peculiar yet meaningful subtext, along the lines of ‘look how tenderly I’m stroking my cat? What a great time we are having! Wouldn’t you like to be in my cat’s place?”. Even so, there remains a looming semantic dissonance between what the would-be seducer says, and what their photograph actually shows. Oleg Komarov

Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 15.7 H x 1 D in

Number of Panels:2

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