Page 248 - Four Art Projects by Petru Russu: Catalogue 2024

Petru Russu © | Jorge of Burgos | The Name of the Rose 1987 aqua tint, aqua forte 29.7x42.0 cm. | 11.7x16.5 in.
Jorge thinks the manuscript, which holds the only existing version of Aristotle’s Poetics’ missing second book
about comedy, could be a hazardous book that poses a major challenge to the power of the church and God’s
desired social structure.

In 1991, after a great deal of thought and around 200 individual and international
exhibitions, Petru Russu made the decision to no longer pursue a career as
a contemporary fine artist. With roughly 160 etchings interpreting Giovanni
Boccaccio’s Decameron, The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius, and The Name of the
Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, he felt that he had accomplished
what he had set out to do.

As he no longer felt interested in his own art creation, Petru Russu was motivated
to explore a career in the international art world industry as the founder of
two art galleries where he selected and united the world of art of over 4460
contemporary artists. He founded two prominent art publishing houses where
Petru created, edited, and published over 60 contemporary art books, selecting
and publishing works from over 2950 contemporary artists. Finally, he founded
his own beauty brand, Addiction London, a unique creative beauty brand
dedicated to combating specific signs of aging through regenerative skincare
products and treatments to restore skin health.