- City
- Toronto
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- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 61
Vitaly Medvedovsky
Vitaly Medvedovsky was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and moved to Canada in 1998. He completed the MFA Painting program at Concordia University (Montreal) in 2009, after receiving a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design (Toronto) in 2004. Vitaly’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Stuttgart and Berlin. He has received numerous awards, including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, the Plaskett Award, the Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant, as well as the Canada Council project grant.
My paintings and drawings depict imaginary spaces that intertwine autobiographical elements with references to history, science fiction and mythology, as a way of exploring the themes of memory, fantasy and the passage of time. I am particularly interested in the way one's current state can distort our perception of the past, and influence our visions of the future. My ultimate goal is to create works that exist in a space outside of time - an imagined world that lies somewhere between a past that never actually happened and a future that never quite panned out as hoped. Instead of constructing a closed-off narrative with a particular message, I'm trying to create moments of uncertainty, whereby the different elements in the drawing or painting, while existing within the same space, don't necessarily always fit logically together, be it in terms of scale, chronology, or even basic physics. These gaps in meaning create a kind of opening that allows the viewer to access the work and interpret it on their own terms.
