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Rusu’s figurative tales are not descriptive. They are
only in connection with the text for a pure, fantastic
solicitation that the artist renews time after time. The
text is a sort of pretest to stimulate his own taste, his
own genius for a narrative plot derived from his pure,
fantastic, visionary world, in witch emerges symbolic
presences, archetypal and mysterious.
His sheets are precious for their vivid, but softened
chromatic that insinuates among the spaces made by a
skillful etching mark aware of the expressive qualities
of that medium. In front of Russo’s engravings, we
have the sensation of being in the front of ancient
miniatures, singularly “oriental”, suddenly animated
by tensions enchantment s, empiric but ac tual
starts and plots. Undoubtedly, there is a surrealist
component in Rusu’s figurative world that gives to
the author the freedom to reach a fantastic dimension
as space of visionary revelation (here we can’t forget
the great lesson of the Romanian Brauner, with his
peculiar, archetypal surrealism).

Regarding these same Rusu’s sheets, Dan Haulica
spoke about a ”double dimension of technological
mechanics and organic unity”. Actually, the visionary
world of Petru Rusu seems to allude to both those
dimension, as two competing archetypes in the folds
of our reality. They seem to be indistinguishable inside
his visionary plot, where the explicit components are
just the floating presences of surreal symbolic figures.
Those dimensions remain at the stage of spheres of
allusion. They are references of the mechanical plot
of our contemporary world and of the iconic plot
that chases us daily. But they are even references
of a remote organic root, of an anthropological truth
on which are based the motivations of a visionary
symbolism, like Rusu’s one.

 TEN GRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS OF PENDULUM DE FOUCAULT BY
UMBERTO ECO: THE 10TH SEPHIROT/ KINGSHIP, 1998 DRAWING ON WOOD
PANEL WITH CHARCOAL 31½X19¾ IN. | 80X50 CM.
TEN GRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS OF PENDULUM DE FOUCAULT BY
UMBERTO ECO: THE 9TH SEPHIROT/ FOUNDATION, 1989 HAND COLORED
ETCHING (AQUATINTA /AQUAFORTE) A3 SIZE: 11.7X16.5 IN. | 29,7X42 CM. 

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