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ANDRÉ RUSSU

Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and London, UK
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In our techno cultural society there is a need for new domains of expression the gates to a new stratified cultural metaphor and to an eclectic trans-
that don’t create an outlined limit for the transavantgarde of our day, offering aesthetics virtual domain, a change of cultural mentality and aesthetic
endless possibilities to utilize modern technology and communication in a paradigm that occurs gradually over time. This is an experimental art, which
community-oriented environment. Opportunities to develop a global art becomes gradually more elaborate to an almost aesthetic ethos. Molded by
market where the individual artists are happily divorced from pressures of optimism in this search for knowledge, in some cases even positive
the tribal art market. In recent years, the new means of expression are enthusiasm bears specific features: the rejection of traditional means of
evolving rapidly and artists are supported for refusing to be trapped in the expression, such as painting, and a certain uniformism could be the
predictable scapes or thought schools of the past. Moreover, in these early exploration of natural or artificial materials in process of art making. The
years of the digital and virtual a number of web-sessions, online debates experimentation of certain new artistic methods originate in scientific
have sent significant ideas for the discourse involving terms such as: virtual techniques or industrial technologies, the interdisciplinary attitude and the
space, digital manipulation, computer graphics, 3D structures, modules, specific ideology that wish to shape the natural or social ambient by a
PDF’s, .JPG’s, resolution, processor, worldwide, dot, com, all of which appear symbolic configuration of real life materials, or even by merging with
quite often in approaches made by critics and artists, but also by the industrial design. This becomes a temptation and an attempt to create art in
scholars, designers, engineers, architects and artists. It is an opportunity to everyday life, in “reality” and not exclusively in art terms, these phenomena
experiment with the virtual art works, objects, and installations designed by start a big demand to be community-oriented.
contemporary artists belonging to the new and old generation. This opens André Russu, artists, curator
VIRTUAL SPACE 1, 2, 3, PHOTOGRAPHS, DIGITAL MANIPULATION, COMPUTER GRAPHICS.  

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