Page 246 - Four Art Projects by Petru Russu: Catalogue 2024

About the Founder, Fine Artist, Editor, and Publisher:
Petru Russu is a Swedish fine artist (MFA), founder, editor,
and publisher of World of Art (WOA) Publishing and Masters
of Today (MOT) Publishing, two publishing houses based in
London, United Kingdom also the founder and director of
Art Addiction and Artoteque Online Art Galleries.
He is an experienced graduate and active fine artist with
over 45 years of experience in fine art, art editing, and art
publishing.

Petru Russu (also known as Petru Rusu), was born on January 27, 1955, in Reghin/
Transylvania. He graduated from the prestigious UAD/University of Art and Design
in Cluj-Napoca/Klausenburg in 1979. Later, in 1986, through an Italian Government
Studentship designed to support the most talented and ambitious young artists, Petru
became involved in world-class cultural events with museums, galleries, and creative
technology. This experience allowed him to meet and cooperate with some of the
most interesting and influential curators, art critics, and art historians, such as Dan
Haulica, Franco Maria Ricci, Achille Bonito Oliva, Ingrid Rose, Enrico Crispolti, Carmine
Benincasa, Giancarlo Politi, and many others. Among these notable figures was the
semiotician, essayist, philosopher, and critic Umberto Eco, who became a good friend
of Petru

Petru’s Love, Sex, and Death series is a Middle Ages Trilogy on thousands of works
and inspirations from Giovanni Boccaccio’s 707-year-old pre-Renaissance book Il
Ddecamerone, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pilgrimages or The Canterbury Tales, and Francis
Petrarcha’s Story of Griselda or Tale of Griselds. As Petru’s work developed, he also
drew great inspiration from the only Ancient Roman novelist Apuleius and his novel
The Golden Ass, and from the finest author of the twentieth century, Umberto Eco’s
The Name of The Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum.

In brief, Petru Russu has organized around 200 individual and international exhibitions.
His artworks are in museums, public, corporate, and private collections. Petru’s
unconventional method of etching in aqua-tinta-aqua-forte in DECAMERON depicts
100 erotic-to-tragic novels through 100 non-usual hand-painted engravings, as well
as in Umberto Eco’s first and best books, The Name of The Rose and the esoteric
Foucault’s Pendulum. represented in etchings, drawings, and other art objects.