Pet project

The artist has been painting about cats from around three decades ago, ever since he owned his first cat-a black cat when he was a child. So far, he has finished 200 paintings of cats.

Now, under the title of Find Meow Notice, 60 cat-themed paintings are being displayed at Xi'an Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. The exhibition is scheduled to run through June.

Vileorovich's paintings depict cats against different backgrounds such as the artist's home. In one of the paintings, titled Cat Mom, the artist portrays a senior woman lying on her sofa with 10 cats of different colors, types and sizes playing around.

In a painting, titled Midsummer, he highlights a black-and-white cat drinking tap water with a fresh barrel of flowers around. In Grandfather's Shed, he has two cats sitting at the door of a woodshed, which stocks things such as carpentry tools, a bicycle and a weeding machine. Outside the woodshed, there are two men: one is resting while smoking a cigarette and the other is working in the garden. In other paintings on cats, Vileorovich also features the natural scenery and city life in Minsk, Belarus' capital, where he also lives and where viewers can see cats living among people.