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PETRU RUSSU
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
www.artaddiction.net/Graphic/Petru-Rusu/Petru-Rusu.htm

This mixture of promiscuous vividness that forms Boccaccio’s the origins of the middle European Expressionism. Nevertheless,
subject an-at the same time-of high artistic discipline, it seems to here the artist privileges the game among historical-stylistic
me a theme that deserves consideration from anyone who wants connotation which overcome that main quality: suddenly he
to approach this text. It is important to feel pushed to a certain wants to reach a formal mechanism verifiable in the entire cycle
attitude, as Rusu did exhaustively dealing with the Decameron dedicated to Calendrino, with all those lamentable cases that
universe. Petru Rusu comes from Transylvania. His art seems Boccaccio assigns him. It is a mechanism comparable to some
influenced by some expressionist master: Kokoschka in his best tendency of the modern art: the mechanic anatomy of Picabia’s
period (1914), with his unique chromaticity and his particular way drawings, Duchamp, the facetious combination of Tinguely and
of considering the space of the page; Kandinsky, with the twisty Luginbuhl, where the sense of humor doesn’t exclude an accent
strength of this image. Consequently, we can easily say that the of restlessness. In Rusu’s work, these mechanisms are easily
artistic attitude of Petru Rusu is like a sort of a dialogue around comparable to an inner organ. (excerpt). Dan Haulica

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