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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Vitali was born in Odessa (in <a href="/facts/Ukraine/Qof0uqAj">Ukraine</a>, <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">U.S.S.R.</a>) in 1957. He studied engineering and classical painting. VitaliV received his first degree (engineering) from the <a href="/facts/National_University_-_Odessa_National_Maritime_Academy/AGWqBBmY">Odessa Maritime College</a>. Thereafter, he was deployed to different locations in the <a href="/facts/Far_North_(Russia)/4uRefr7D">Russian Arctic</a> and Siberia for 6 years. </p><p>In 1979 Vitali moved to <a href="/facts/Saint_Petersburg/pNuCBxaM">St. Petersburg</a> (then Leningrad) and in 1983 he enrolled at the <a href="/facts/St._Petersburg_Academy_of_Arts/JSMjst1I">St. Petersburg Academy of Arts</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> first, as a part-time and subsequently, as a full-time student in the sculpture department. </p><p>In 1989 he won a scholarship at the <a href="/facts/Norwich_University_College_of_the_Arts/1BPlRLIf">Norwich University College of the Arts</a> in the UK as an exchange student. In 1989 he lived in the legendary St. Petersburg underground art squat Мансарды "Аптека Пеля". From 1991 onwards Vitali has resided in London. He currently commutes between his London and Italian studios. In his earlier years in the UK he supported himself by organising a <a href="/facts/Photocopier/aF7URdyU">photocopiers</a> retail business with Russia. He later founded the TV3 <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] network.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>In 1993 Vitali established an Art Community which became known as "Bank", as it was based in the former <a href="/facts/Barclays/2M992GXz">Barclays Bank</a> building in <a href="/facts/Hoxton/YljrM6nz">Hoxton</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> 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. </p> <h2 id="art">Art</h2> <p>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".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> 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 <i>Digital Butterfly</i> with artist <a href="https://www.pinosignoretto.it/">Pino Signoretto in Murano, Venice</a>. </p><p>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 <i>ArtRabbit</i>, "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".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2> <h2 id="exhibitions">Exhibitions</h2> <p>Select Exhibitions, Shows and Projects include: </p> <ul><li>2021. "A premonition of the Future" Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg</li> <li>2019. Exhibition, organised by MA Gallery, London</li> <li>2018 "Digital Porcelain Collections". organised by MA Gallery, London</li> <li>2014-2015 Jewellery collections for ZBird (China)</li> <li>2013 <i>The Dinner is served</i>, The State Russian Museum,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] Saint-Petersburg.</li> <li>2011 <i>The Fourth Moscow Biennale of contemporary art</i>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] Fabrica, Moscow.</li> <li>2011 <i>VideoAkt</i>, International Biennale,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> Barcelona.</li> <li>2011 <i>Infame</i>, Forman's Smokehouse gallery,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> London.</li> <li>2010 <i>Digital life</i>, Salon Gallery, London.</li> <li>2009 <i>Moda, Picture, Style</i>, State Russian Museum,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] Saint-Petersburg.</li> <li>2008 <i>Digital Butterfly by Pino Signoretto</i>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> project. Murano, Venice.</li> <li>2007 <i>Digital metamorphosis</i>, Summer Gardens, State Russian Museum,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] Saint-Petersburg.</li> <li>2006 <i>Digital art</i>, Sands,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] Las-Vegas.</li> <li>2000 <i>Cook-art</i>, Islington Design Centre, London.</li> <li>1999 <i>S.Rossine & VitalyV</i>, New Burlington gallery, London.</li> <li>1999 <i>Three tons of food</i>, Bank, London.</li> <li>1999 <i>Temporary radio</i>, Radio Suisse, Geneva.</li> <li>1996 <i>Africa, Kostroma, VitalyV</i>, SEM,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] Saint-Petersburg.</li> <li>1995 <i>Three artists</i>, Albemarle Gallery, London.</li> <li>1995 <i>Fragments</i>, Merts Contemporary Gallery, London.</li> <li>1994 <i>A4 gallery</i>, Flash art magazine,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] London.</li> <li>1994 <i>Real size of Fuji</i>, Flash art magazine,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a>[<i>circular reference</i>] London.</li></ul> Sources <ul><li>Budd, M., & Crowther, P. (2008). Aesthetic essence, The aesthetic: from experience to art. In R. Shusterman, & A. Tomlin (Eds.), <i>Aesthetic Experience</i> (pp. 17–45). New York: Routledge.</li> <li>Leonida, G. (1981). Handbook of Printed Circuit Design, Manufacture, Components & Assembly. Essex: Electrochemical Publications Ltd.</li> <li>Negroponte, N. (1995). Being Digital. New York: Knopf.</li> <li></li> <li>I. Karasik. Vitaly Vinogradov, NOMI 4,4/63/2008 Saint Petersburg. <a href="/facts/ISSN_(identifier)/DPAflDvU">ISSN</a> <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1560-8697">1560-8697</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.readoz.com/publication/read?i=1002907&pg=6#page18">T. Suvorova. Brave new world, Hermitage, summer 2008.</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.readoz.com/publication/read?i=1002907&pg=6#page70">T. Shvetskaya, Numeric Harmony, Hermitage, summer 2008.</a></li> <li>A. Halfin, 7th-line, Iskusstvo Rossia, 2000 <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 5-900786-31-5.</li> <li>"Real size of Fuji", Flash art international, 1994.</li> <li><a href="http://www.artselector.com/exhibition/vitaliv-chips">"VitaliV Chips"</a>, Artselector.com.</li> <li><a href="http://www.fashionandrunway.com/fashion/article.cfm?id_articolo=19427">Article 19427</a>, fashionandrunway.com.</li> <li><a href="http://www.artrabbit.com/germany/events/event/19164/vitaliv_digital_life">"VitaliV Digital Life"</a>, Artrabbit.com.</li> <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2010/may/10/blazblue-art-vitaliv">"BlazBlue Art - VitaliV"</a>, Guardian.co.uk.</li> <li><a href="http://www.artreview.com/profiles/blogs/chips-by-vitali-v">"Chips by Vitali V"</a>, Artreview.com.</li> <li><a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/view_blog/3592/chips_by_vitali_v_">"Chips by Vitali V"</a>, saatchi-gallery.co.uk.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to VitaliV. <ul><li><a href="http://vitaliv.co.uk/">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://4th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects.html">Projects - 4th Moscow Biennale</a>, The Outer Space State of Transcendental Turnover</li> <li><a href="http://www.readoz.com/publication/read?i=1002907&pg=6#page18">readoz.com</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Art Market News". Telegraph.co.uk. 19 October 2009. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/6377515/Art-Market-News.html" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/6377515/Art-Market-News.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"VitaliV, 'Digital Life' - Exhibition at SaLon in London". <a href="https://www.artrabbit.com/events/vitaliv-digital-life" target="_blank">https://www.artrabbit.com/events/vitaliv-digital-life</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Digital Life - A solo exhibition from VitaliV", SalonContemporary.com, 2009, webpage: "Digital Life", solo exhibition of Vitali Vinogradov. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. <a href="http://www.saloncontemporary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=326%3Adebut-london-solo-exhibition-vitali-vinogradov&catid=32%3Acurrent-exhibitions&Itemid=143" target="_blank">http://www.saloncontemporary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=326%3Adebut-london-solo-exhibition-vitali-vinogradov&catid=32%3Acurrent-exhibitions&Itemid=143</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Digital Life - A solo exhibition from VitaliV", SalonContemporary.com, 2009, webpage: "Digital Life", solo exhibition of Vitali Vinogradov. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. <a href="http://www.saloncontemporary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=326%3Adebut-london-solo-exhibition-vitali-vinogradov&catid=32%3Acurrent-exhibitions&Itemid=143" target="_blank">http://www.saloncontemporary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=326%3Adebut-london-solo-exhibition-vitali-vinogradov&catid=32%3Acurrent-exhibitions&Itemid=143</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Digital Life - A solo exhibition from VitaliV", SalonContemporary.com, 2009, webpage: "Digital Life", solo exhibition of Vitali Vinogradov. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. <a href="http://www.saloncontemporary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=326%3Adebut-london-solo-exhibition-vitali-vinogradov&catid=32%3Acurrent-exhibitions&Itemid=143" target="_blank">http://www.saloncontemporary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=326%3Adebut-london-solo-exhibition-vitali-vinogradov&catid=32%3Acurrent-exhibitions&Itemid=143</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>TV-3 (Russia) <a href="/wiki/TV-3_(Russia)" target="_blank">/wiki/TV-3_(Russia)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Art Market News". Telegraph.co.uk. 19 October 2009. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/6377515/Art-Market-News.html" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/6377515/Art-Market-News.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Items and Icons: tables". The Independent. 22 October 2011. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/items-and-icons-tables-1146137.html" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/items-and-icons-tables-1146137.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Russian artist, VitaliV - in conversation - MONK arts magazine". monk.gallery. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191111145844/http://monk.gallery/at-rocca/russian-artist-vitaliv-in-conversation-with-corinna-gannon/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20191111145844/http://monk.gallery/at-rocca/russian-artist-vitaliv-in-conversation-with-corinna-gannon/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"VitaliV, 'Digital Life' - Exhibition at SaLon in London". <a href="https://www.artrabbit.com/events/vitaliv-digital-life" target="_blank">https://www.artrabbit.com/events/vitaliv-digital-life</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Russian Museum <a href="/wiki/Russian_Museum" target="_blank">/wiki/Russian_Museum</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Moscow Biennale <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Biennale" target="_blank">/wiki/Moscow_Biennale</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"videoakt - international videoart biennal - Homesession CA". 14 April 2011. 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