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ESSAY BY ENRICO CRISPOLTI , IALIAN ART CRITIC, CURATOR AND ART In this engraving work, this visionary attitude is more accentuated
HISTORIAN, ROM, ITALY by a narrative easing. It loosens the dramatic tension. It gains
For what I know now, in Peter Rusu’s painting the imaginary seems to the pleasure of a pure dreaming-about. It becomes lighter, ironic,
develop with an accent of visionary expressionism rather dramatic, motioning. The plot moves towards dimensions of pure imagination,
arousing, excited. This particular artistic attitude tests the reality as it happens in the exercises of a machine that belongs to the world
through the upcoming of a symbolic-oneiric awareness and in a of fantasy.
sharpening that could even change into a scream. It is a painting The characters come alive in a metamorphic dimension. They cross
of profound, psychic investigation. A violent confession of anguish. each other into fantastic spaces. They are free from every logic,
Rusu’s is crowded by presences, which bring dramatically back the apart from the one based on the necessity of their narrative plot. The
reality to a truth of archetypes, that the artist put in contrast with same narrative plot that Russo’s fantasy has developed in a game of
the leveling of the daily horizon. possible analogies with the text.
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