Visual artist, designer and writer, Jérémy Taburchi from Nice always has ideas. After having built his entire career around the character of the Pink Cat, he now invents the Pink Cat County Passport. A way like any other to escape from an atmosphere that is sometimes too heavy.
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Born in Nice in 1974, Jérémy Taburchi is one of those free spirits who dares everything and especially the most improbable.
For 20 years he has been creating his paintings and sculptures around the character of the Pink Cat. Today, he is inventing a new concept, that of a passport without a real destination.
For this false passport, the artist has planned a small artistic limited edition of 100 numbered copies, with a humorous purpose.
The famous Pink Cat was drawn and sculpted before becoming a passport.
Teamwork, born from his friendship with Vincent Bottasso-Daideri, from Atelier RAISE, the Artisanal and Industrial Binding Workshop of the South-East.
For his misdeeds, Vincent Bottasso-Daideri surrounds himself with lifelong accomplices.
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© Jérémy Taburchi
A friendship which allowed the creation of surprising projects like this fake passport.
He was excited, what he particularly liked about the idea was the possibility for him to work on a project that would help him modernize the image of the art bookbinder profession. Since then, he has fashioned a few dozen passports for me, using beautiful leather for the cover, and precisely applying gilding bearing the image of the Pink Cat County coat of arms.
Jérémy Taburchi, inventor of the Pink Cat County Passportat France 3 Côte d’Azur
Faced with sometimes confusing current events, Jérémy Taburchi imagined this passport as an escape from a somewhat sad and gray reality. A bit like in John Lennon's famous song, he imagined a world where people would feel happy and all equal.
It seemed amusing to me to invent an elsewhere, Pink Cat County, where everything would go well, where people would not be jealous and bitter, but would live together, happily, sharing the innumerable riches that the earth knows. currently produce, and which would be more than sufficient to satisfy all human needs as long as they are a little more humble.
Jérémy Taburchi.at France 3 Côte d’Azur
A bit like the dog Totor, his designer artist Stéphane Bolongaro, Jérémy Taburchi was able to give his favorite animal depth and an undeniable presence.
“This passport was therefore an opportunity to give it an even more marked dimension in reality, and what better way to do that than to give it a legal existence?” he adds.
Even if it is through an imaginary nationality, this document is represented by a very real document.
The artist still prefers to specify on his site: “These passports are not real passports but a limited edition of an artist with a humorous and satirical purpose, they cannot under any circumstances be used to prove your identity or to cross a border.”
