MA Gallery presents the visionary work of VitaliV, whose pioneering aesthetic emerges from the intricate language of microchips, circuit boards and the unseen architectures of modern life.
Over decades of unique artistic expression, VitaliV has developed a visual lexicon that transforms rigid technological structures into compositions charged with emotional depth. His work explores the paradoxes of the digital age, examining the contrast between system and symbol, logic and emotion. In his hands, circuits transcend their utilitarian function to become vessels of expression: sculpted and constructed meticulously as an expression of identity, memory and the presence of self within coded systems.
Schematism: A New Language of Digital Art
Born in 1957 in Odessa (in Ukraine, USSR at the time), artist VitaliV is celebrated as a veteran of the digital art world. He first studied engineering at the Odessa Maritime College followed by classical painting at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where as a student he lived in the legendary St. Petersburg underground art squat, Apteka Pelya Mansards. In 1989 he won a scholarship to Norwich University College of the Arts, later moving to London. Here VitaliV established an art community known as Bank, based in the former Barclays Bank building in Hoxton. It was a pioneering multimedia arts centre where he held a 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. VitaliV calls his style Schematism, described by MA Gallery as “bringing together ‘the clarity of architectural design with the emotional weight of art that lingers.”
