Here's That Painting of a Failed Cat Panorama You’ve Been Waiting For

Finally, an artist has immortalized this horrifying failed panorama of a cat into a painting. The titular work in Giuseppe Gonella’s show, Walking Home, the second show at the newly-opened Magic Beans Gallery in Berlin, features the form of the two-legged cat surrounded by repetitive, entangled, disembodied limbs. But this bizarre body-horror is offset by a cheery color palette, and all in all would still make a great wall ornament (for fans of the cat fail or otherwise).

Gonella’s bright colors aren't far from monumental painter Katharina Grosse’s, while the former's compositions are much more figurative. And contrary to the cheery colors, the subject matter actually gets a bit dark, exploring the “predicaments, dreams, and fears that challenge contemporary humanity,” according to the show's press release.

Subjects are fragmented and abstracted, some appearing torn apart and collaged. The painterly works make use of varied brushstrokes, from wide swaths of lush color, to scratchy, aggressive mark-making, to neon lines so smooth they almost appear digital.

“The element that unites many of Gonella’s works is the reference to fragments of memory and fleeting visions, translated in painting through the desire to keep a distance from a strictly mimetic vision,” the press release reads.

See more images of Walking Home below:

Walking Home is on view at Magic Beans Gallery until May 6. See more of Gonella’s work on his website.

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