Vitaliy
Evgenievich Kotikov

Seals Vitaly Evgenyevich

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

In 1977 moved with his parents to Moscow in the future, childhood was spent between the two cities – the bustling capital city and a quiet provincial ancient town.

At the age of 10 years with me was a case which affected the choice of life and undoubtedly in the works. During one of my walks near the house, on the street I saw a small, strange piece of wood. When he turned it over and wiped the mud – it turned out that this old icon. Very much spoiled, darkened, but it remained surprising fragments of images and colors. This "treasure" so shocked me that in the future I wanted to portray something like that. 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.
Now continue to work in the field of design, are the chief designer of one of the leading furniture factories. But so far all the free time to devote to painting.

Over the years, from advertising and design through the development 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 it into his idea of the lace of the characters, the artist seeks to find the line where it merges the world of reality and eternity. In an attempt to convey the many meanings enclosed in the picture, he layers wraps your image in a cloak of allegory, affecting the hidden strings of the soul, opening the locked door in something unknown in the corridor between the worlds, in the void, twisted the fragile peace.

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

Combining completely different at first glance, the poles of culture: Orthodox icon and sophisticated Japanese graphics, the ancient myth of the void pulsates in the ornament, in the background, extending the understanding 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 a fine variety of 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. Member of international Association "Art of Nations"