I’m Julius Vitali, and my artistic discipline changes from day to day. Basically, I am a visual artist. I am an author and I am a composer, but the kind of music composition I do is called visual music, so probably it would go under the auspices of a music artist.  I live in Pennsylvania, which is in the United States, and I am participating in Voices Underground.

My artistic vision used to stem from a surrealistic aspect, but since that was inadequate, I was doing something that was considered awkward art. And I came up with something called “awkwardology”, which is looking at awkward as more of a sociological or humanistic approach, so it much wider as a vision, because it encompasses more of society, how the society has become awkward.

One of the subsets of that is looking at errors as a way to come up with interesting aspects if you are doing something that probably would be considered experimental. So I have been considered an  “Erronist”, or I also came up with something called “Erronique”, which is similar to ironic, except that it is spelled e-r-r-o-n-i-q-u-e, so it’s a multiple use work. And the idea behind that is to perfect the art of errors, which means if you go down an artistic path that you don’t know the answer to, you might run into mistakes.  And if you choose different paths for the mistakes, you might come to a dead end or you can come to something that is visionary and that in that aspect, for me anyway, then I might come up with something that is unique. So I am not limited to one type of medium, because it depends on what I am working on, because there are a lot of interdisciplinary aspects to what I do.

Therefore, I would say that I work in a series, which means that I try to do about ten to forty pieces within an artistic style or framework, and then once I’ve exhausted all the different possibilities, going through the different mistake concept or “erronique,” then I’ll usually go on to something else, which means I can always go back to the series and do a revised process to it, or I can then decide to take it someplace else or then do something in a different medium, which means that I could do something in painting, or I could do something in photography or some other aspect which might have a combination of writing and visual arts to explore.

Now, after 9-11 happened I decided to do a lot of artwork based on the aspect that 9-11 gave in terms of upheaval and then a healing process about a terroristic act. A lot of the work since September 11, 2001, has been looking at that particular event as a way to create artwork, and I haven’t exhausted all of the possibilities of that over-riding situation, because it is so pervasive in how it affects everybody. Normally I am not concerned about external forces in terms of my own particular internal vision, but in this case, because it happened to be so pervasive, I decided to let in enter into my creative process.

Julius Vitali.  Visual artist, author, composer.  Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Mr. Vitali is the author of The Fine Artist’s Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the Experimental TV Center and the InterMedia Art Center, New York, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.  Selected exhibitions include Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris; Crucial Gallery, London; Il and Diaframma Galerie, Milan.  Selected collections are Polaroid Corp., Zurich & Mass.; Zeus Gallery, Milan; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; and Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

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Julius Vitali