Pisica Pătrată x Un-hidden Bucharest Art Toy Polliwog

A small Polliwog, which doubles as a cat, is here to help your final stages of metamorphosis!

This small and unique art toy created by Pisica Pătrată for the Un-Hidden Bucharest campaign is now available in the feeder online shop. 🐱

It is entirely handcrafted by the artist out of solid soft wood, then painted in acrylics and protected with lacquer. It is the smallest art toy in the collection, a lovely 45 x 31 x 40 mm character.

Pisica Pătrată

Alexandru Ciubotariu aka Pisica Pătrată is one of the most acclaimed illustrators and muralists in Romania, and also the founder of the Comic Strip Museum. He constantly works, draws square cats and accepts all sorts of challenges. His street-art works signal forgotten places and inspire dialogue.

Ciubi is one of the artists with whom we lovingly collaborate with interesting results in projects such as CAPITOL Cinema / Summer Theatre and Un-hidden Bucharest. This summer we explored Pisica Pătrată’s universe full of colour and positive messages. It is a multifaceted cat, omnipresent in the local public space, which alerts many marginalized or even avoided subjects.

Un-hidden Bucharest

Un-hidden Bucharest is a cultural project produced by Save or Cancel x feeder.ro, designed as a series of 3 new art interventions and a guided art journey into public space, aiming at humanizing Bucharest and promoting its understanding and exploration through art. The 3 new urban installations/signals at Centrului Național al Dansului București Sala Omnia, Lente, Cinema Marconi, are created by the artists Pisica Pătrată, Skinny Bunny, VJ VLC, Sorina Vazelina & Primitiv Print.

In addition, the 2017 pilot edition produces an online and a printed edition map of 24 public space of Bucharest where city dwellers and tourists can find independent, exciting street artworks.

Did you know that…

A tadpole (also called a pollywog) is the larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian, particularly that of a frog or toad. They are usually wholly aquatic, though some species have tadpoles that are terrestrial.

According to Sir George Scott, in the origin myths of the Wa people in China and Myanmar, the first Wa originated from two female ancestors Ya Htawm and Ya Htai, who spent their early phase as tadpoles (rairoh) in a lake in the Wa country known as Nawng Hkaeo.

In the Ancient Egyptian numerals, a hieroglyphic representing a tadpole was used to denote the value of 100,000.