VitaliV
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VitaliV (or Vitali V, real name Vitali Vinogradov)[1] is a Soviet-born painter and sculptor now living in the United Kingdom, who has developed an artistic style based on the designs of computer microchips.[2] Some works have been laser-cut in relief and then hand-painted as 3D objects.[2]
Biography
Vitali was born in Odessa (then in The Ukraine, U.S.S.R.) in 1957. After finishing Odessa Maritime College, Vitali was deployed to different locations in the Russian Arctic and Siberia for 6 years.
In 1979 Vitali moved to St. Petersburg (then Leningrad). In 1983 Vitali entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts,[2] as a part-time and later a full-time student of the sculpture department.
During his time in Russia he worked selling photocopiers and then founded the TV3 network.[1]
In 1989 he became an exchange student at the Norwich University College of the Arts in England. From 1989 he lived in squat on "mansard roof of "Apteka Pelya" (de pharmacy). Since 1991 Vitali has lived in London.
In 1993 Vitali founded Art Community "Bank", based in the former Barclays Bank building in the area of Hoxton,[3] where the short film festival OMSK was held, and different artists exhibited various conceptual art, large sculptures, video installations and other media.
Art
In 1989 Vitali moved to England. After success creating paintings and sculptures, he broadened his reach to produce objects under the umbrella of Applied Art. This includes jewellery inspired by electronic schemes. Vitali became inspired by the printed circuit board (PCB) and sought to promote an aesthetic around this theme, incorporating it with abstracts or appropriations of nature, or different familiar styles. This method is similar to the electronic Via, which has vertical electrical connections between different layers of conductors.
Vitali has produced objects such as jewellery, tableware and porcelain. He has extended this to produce fashion clothes, accessories and furniture and applied Via Art onto tableware, porcelain and fashion accessories.
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VitaliV tableware
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VitalV art dress
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Jewelry of "Cockle Shell" in style of gold wires as a printed circuit board.
Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions, Show and projects include:
- 2013 The Dinner is served", The State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg.
- 2011 The Fourth Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Fabrica, Moscow.
- 2011 VideoAkt, International Biennale, Barcelona.
- 2011 Infame, Forman's Smokehouse gallery, London.
- 2010 Digital life, Salon Gallery, London.
- 2009 Moda, Picture, Style, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg.
- 2008 Digital Butterfly by Pino Signoretto, project. Murano, Venice.
- 2007 Digital metamorphosis, Summer Gardens, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg.
- 2006 Digital art, Sands, Las-Vegas.
- 2000 Cook-art, Islington Design Centre, London.
- 1999 S.Rossine & VitalyV, New Burlington gallery, London.
- 1999 Three tons of food, Bank, London.
- 1999 Temporary radio, Radio Suisse, Geneva.
- 1996 Africa, Kostroma, VitalyV, SEM, Saint-Petersburg.
- 1995 Three artists, Albemarle Gallery, London.
- 1995 Fragments, Merts Contemporary Gallery, London.
- 1994 A4 gallery, Flash art magazine, London.
- 1994 Real size of Fuji, Flash art magazine, London.
References
- ^ a b "Art Market News". Telegraph.co.uk. 19 October 2009.
- ^ a b c "Digital Life - A solo exhibition from VitaliV", SalonContemporary.com, 2009, webpage: "Digital Life", solo exhibition of Vitali Vinogradov.
- ^ "Items and Icons: tables". The Independent.
- Sources
- Budd, M., & Crowther, P. (2008). Aesthetic essence, The aesthetic: from experience to art. In R. Shusterman, & A. Tomlin (Eds.), Aesthetic Experience (pp. 17–45). New York: Routledge.
- Leonida, G. (1981). Handbook of Printed Circuit Design, Manufacture, Components & Assembly. Essex: Electrochemical Publications Ltd.
- Negroponte, N. (1995). Being Digital. New York: Knopf.
- Azizov, Z., Vitali V: Interfaces or the art of re-coding, Aldgate Press Ltd, 2008 ISBN 978-0-85622-007-4.
- I. Karasik. Vitaly Vinogradov, NOMI 4,4/63/2008 Saint Petersburg. ISSN 1560-8697.
- T. Suvorova. Brave new world, Hermitage, summer 2008.
- T. Shvetskaya, Numeric Harmony, Hermitage, summer 2008.
- A. Halfin, 7th-line, Iskusstvo Rossia, 2000 ISBN 5-900786-31-5.
- "Real size of Fuji", Flash art international, 1994.
- "VitaliV Chips", Artselector.com.
- Article 19427, fashionandrunway.com.
- "VitaliV Digital Life", Artrabbit.com.
- "BlazBlue Art - VitaliV", Guardian.co.uk.
- "Chips by Vitali V", Artreview.com.
- "Chips by Vitali V", saatchi-gallery.co.uk.
External links
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- Official website
- digivi.com
- Projects - 4th Moscow Biennale, The Outer Space State of Transcendental Turnover
- readoz.com