Kotikov Vitaliy Evgenevich

Born in 1975 in a family of physicians in the ancient city of Ryazan.

In 1977 moved with his parents to Moscow in the future, the child ran between the two cities – noisy and quiet provincial capital of the old Russian city.

At the age of 10 I had an experience, which was reflected in the choice of life and, no doubt, at work. During one of his walks near the house, on the street I came across a small, strange piece of wood. When turned it over and wiped the mud – it turned out that this old icon. Much spoiled, darkened, but it remained surprising fragments of images and colors. This "treasure" so shook me that in the future I wanted to portray something similar. Worn edges, cracks, antiqued gold - these things are seen then, in my early childhood, I use now in my works.

At school all my free time devoted to creativity, painted, sculpted.

After graduation in 1992 he entered the Moscow State Textile University named after Kosygin.

In 1997 he received the diploma of the artist-stylist specialty "Artistic design of textile products"
Worked as a designer in different fields: advertising, interior design, industrial design.
Currently continue to work in the field of design is a Premier designer of one of the leading furniture factories. But still spare time to devote to painting.

Over the years, from advertising and design through the exploration of textile ornament I came to the mythological and philosophical themes in painting.

The most striking and beautiful way – a metaphor. Its effectiveness is bordered by Chudotvortsa. With this magic tools, weaving into this plot lace the characters, the artist seeks to find the boundary where the world of reality and eternity. In an attempt to convey the many meanings enclosed in the picture, it is layer by layer wraps his image in the cloak of allegory, affecting the hidden strings of the soul, opening the locked door to something unknown in the corridor between the worlds, in the void, twisted in a fragile world.

Ancient art the ornament. Look, sometimes beyond recognition, the elements of reality, it contains a deep, often sacred meaning. The mystical world of patterns and ornaments speaks to the audience in the universal language of symbols and myths, becomes the key to the cultural code of various civilizations and eras subtle framing decor.

Combining completely different at first glance, the poles of culture: Orthodox icon and sophisticated Japanese graphics, the ancient mythologem of the void pulsates in an ornament, in the background, extending the idea of the nature of the mysterious.

The fruit of my creative research and reflection has become a cycle of works dedicated to the amazing mythology of the Slavic peoples and exquisite Oriental images.

The constant participant of collective exhibitions of contemporary painting. First solo exhibition "the World of the mysterious, ancient world of mine" was held in the International Fund of Slavic culture and writing.