VitaliV

VitaliV (or Vitali V, real name Vitali Vinogradov) is a contemporary British artist, sharing his time between the UK and Italy studios. He creates abstract art inspired by patterns in microchips. network. It was a pioneering multimedia arts centre where he held series of OMSK short film festivals, organised conceptual art exhibitions, sculpture shows (including monumental sculptures), video installations and displayed works produced in new, digital, media formats.

Art Vitali moved to the UK in 1989. On completing his degree at the Norwich University College of the Arts and after a number of successful painting and sculpture shows, he led a community of artists and film connoisseurs in Hoxton and other parts of London. While living in London and studying contemporary art, VitaliV also found and developed his signature style, known as "schematism". The essence of his style are simple geometrical patterns—circles and lines connected at 45° angles. According to the artist, "in the mid-1990s I was living and working in London. These were the years before the Internet took over. I was thinking about how exciting it would be to create a cyberspace museum, both as an artist and as a businessman. If I didn’t do it, someone else might, and then I would miss this chance of a lifetime!" While still thinking on it, I opened up a computer and became suddenly fascinated with its motherboard. I immediately loved the look of it: it was complicated and fantastical with a green or red base and lots of golden lines. It was a piece of art in its own right; I like the aesthetics and the logic, so I thought about starting to make art based on this". In 1993 VitaliV established his Cyberspace museum on BBS, Bank, Hoxton, in London. Since 2007 Vitali has been sharing his time between his UK and Italian studios. He confesses: "I have always dreamt of living as artist in Italy. Italy gives a lot to an artist: culture, history, nature. I can't think of another country that would give me so much". In 2008 VitaliV ran a joint project Digital Butterfly with artist Pino Signoretto in Murano, Venice.

Eventually, Vitali ventured into design and decorative arts, applying the principles of "schematism" in various fields and experimenting with tableware, porcelain, designer fashion clothes, accessories and furniture, as well as jewellery. Among his recent projects is the Jewellery collection for ZBird (China). He also released his fashion collections and launched them during French Fashion week in 2008 (Zone, the Louvre, Paris, France) and London Fashion Week in 2009. According to ArtRabbit, "his practice is both eccentric and technologically innovative, consisting of a range of lightboxes, CNC laser-cut reliefs, aluminium and acrylic resins and a 3D film".

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Exhibitions Select Exhibitions, Shows and Projects include: 2021. "A premonition of the Future" Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg 2019. Exhibition, organised by MA Gallery, London 2018 "Digital Porcelain Collections". organised by MA Gallery, London 2014-2015 Jewellery collections for ZBird (China) 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, project. Murano, Venice. 2007 Digital metamorphosis, Summer Gardens, State Russian Museum, 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,