Jonathan Penca at Loggia

Artist: Jonathan Penca

Exhibition title: Solid Kats

Venue: Loggia, Munich, Germany

Date: December 12, 2019 – January 16, 2020

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Loggia, Munich

KAT This time around we gotta look everything right Kat! KAT Absolutely Kat! Lick and reflect. Uhm, look! /……………./ KAT …so Kat, the distinction between leo and leopard is simple …but not necessarily understandable. KAT I knoooow, it‘s not about the body shape, wether a mane is present or not, but just about wether the animal looks at the viewer or not. Kat, Isn‘t this color too much? KAT If the viewer is looked at by the animal it is a leopard, if the gaze is sideways, it is a lion. And you need to look as though you‘d eat the street in front of you! KAT Yeah like a solid Kat would! /…………………………./ KAT A rising lion that looks at the viewer is called lionized leopard. A striding lion looking sideways is called a leopardized lion. I‘m talking now about a striding animal, standing on three feet, the forefoot raised, the inner hindfoot set a little forward, the tail struck backward over it‘s back. It‘s hard to imagine to fit in this thing, much less to move in it.. one would have to be liquid almost.. Did I say leo? I meant lion. KAT No no, you said lion. I can barely keep me together. What about a panther though? KAT Didn‘t see this one coming! KAT A panther, where?? KAT No, THAT guy. /…/ Anyhow, a panther is portrayed as a fire-spitting, rather slender, sometimes winged mythical creature who has nothing to do with the lion or leopard. KAT But they all belong to Panthera right? KAT Yes sure we‘re only talking heraldic looks of big cats now. I LOVE that color, it looks dangerous! We‘re on a rampage to stun every sense!