Petru Augustin Rusu (aka Petru Russu) born January 27, 1955 in Reghin /Transylvania, is an professional active contemporary fine artist, gallery manager running own gallery, successful art editor and publisher graduated from the prestigious UAD /University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca /Klausenburg 1979 and later, in 1986 via an Italian Government Studentship to support the most talented and ambitious young artists, Petru get involved in world-class cultural events with museums, galleries and creative technology. Through this he has succeeded to meet the most interesting and influential curators, art critic and art historian as Dan Haulica, Franco Maria Ricci, Achillle Bonito Oliva, Ingrid Rose, Enrico Crispolti, Carmine Benincasa, Giancarlo Politi and so many others, including here the semiotician, essayist, philosopher, critic Umberto Eco.
 

Petru's Love, Sex and Death series is a Middle Ages Trilogy on thousands of works and inspirations from Giovanni Boccaccios' 707 year-old pre-Renaissance book IL DECAMERONE, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pilgrinages or THE CANTERBURY TALES and, Francis Petrarcha’s Story of Griselda or TALE OF GRISELDA. 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.

Briefly, Petru Russu has realized 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 on 100 erotic-to-tragic novels 100 non-usual hand painted engravings, as the same on 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.
 

Petru is also the founder and director of ART ADDICTION (Stockholm 1992-1997), Piccola Galeria Correr (Venice 1997-1999) and Art Addiction Online Gallery (artaddiction.net) with over 1750 contemporary artists members. Founded in June 1992, Art Addiction is the first ever art website on internet (on 6 August 1991 Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website).

From 1999 Petru is the founder, publisher and editor of WOA Publishing (Stockholm) and WORLD OF ART - the global art magazine (worldofartmagazine.com). WOA's distinguished collaborators are leading art galleries and art museums including Guggenheim in New York, Las Vegas, Bilbao, Berlin and Venice, Museum of Moderan Art /MoMA in New York,  TATE Galleries in London, Rivoli Museum and Gallery in Torino, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Musée D’Art Moderne /ARC in Paris, The Getty Foundation in Los Angeles, Art Basel, the Venice Biennial, Documenta in Kassel and many others around the world.

From 2007 Petru is the founder, publisher and editor of MOT Publishing and Masters of Today Contemporary Artists Book Series, a professional artist-to-artist publishing that runs from London (mastersoftoday.com). As a fine artist, art publisher and editor, Petru Russu has selected, edited and published over 1000 contemporary artist profiles in 35 art books (search inside at Amazon.com).