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Thoma Vuille, alias Monsieur Chat, introduces us to his site with a mission statement: “The context of my work is the city, its streets, its walls, and the eyes of those who live there. I try to create supports for the narrative of the city by its inhabitants, who participate in the creation and exchange of a culture of proximity “. Specific reasons and serious that lies behind the cheerful features of a big cat round and yellow, sometimes winged, always smiling like the Cheshire cat. You can see it appear in Lisbon, Tangier, San Paolo, Sarajevo, Frankfurt, Berlin, but also in Vietnam, Senegal or China. Or in a book, where are collected some of his works.
The first cat of M. Chat appeared in Orléans, France, in 1997; the artist has managed to remain anonymous until 2007, when Thoma Vuille was “caught” while drawing. The height of his fame was in 2004, when Chris Marker made the documentary Chats Perchés: at the premiere of the film at the Centre Pompidou in Paris M. Chat painted a huge kitty of 30 by 30 meters on the pavement of the square outside the Centre .
As a good graffiti artist, Vuille occasionally run into legal problems: recently was sued for having “chatted” a wall of the metro station Châtelet in Paris (all the details on his blog).
On its official website you’ll find photos, video, merchandising.
The image of this article is taken from the Facebook page of M. Chat.
