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Petru Rusu
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
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Petru Rusu comes from Transylvania. His art artist privileges the game among historical-stylistic
seems influenced by some expressionist master: connotation which overcome that main quality:
kokoschka in his best period (1914), with his unique suddenly he wants to reach a formal mechanism
chromaticity and his particular way of considering verifiable in the entire cycle dedicated to Calendrino,
the space of the page; kandinsky, with the twisty with all those lamentable cases that Boccaccio
strength of this image. Consequently, we can easily assigns him. It is a mechanism comparable to some
say that the artistic attitude of Petru Russu is like a tendency of the modern art: the mechanic anatomy
sort of a dialogue around the origins of the middle of Picabia’s drawings, Duchamp, the facetious
European Expressionism. nevertheless, here the combination of Tinguely and Luginbuhl, where
Untitled i, 1985 ETCHING 8½x11½ IN. | 21x29 CM.
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