Petru Russu, visual artist, curator, author, gallery director, editor and publisher, Swedish citizen born in Reghin / Transylvania, lives and works in Stockholm and London. Fine Arts graduate (MA 1979), Italian Government Studentship (Rom 1986), multimedia and graphic artist, Petru has realized around 200 individual and international exhibitions and has works in museums, public, corporate and private collections.
Petru Russu is the founder and director of Art Addiction International Gallery (Stockholm 1992-1997) art company registered by the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, than Piccola Galeria Correr (Venice 1997-1999). Art Addiction Medial Museum /www.artaddiction.net / sine 1992 is the first ever and the oldest art site on the web, also AAMM is the largest virtual art gallery including 11 online global art annual exhibitions on view and one medial global art biennial on display.
From 1999 Petru Russu is the publisher and editor of World of Art /www.worldofartmagazine.com / the global art magazine and contemporary artist art books, publishing company registered by the Swedish Patent and Registration Office and editorial and business ofices in Stockholm and London. From 2006 Petru is the publisher and editor of Masters of Today Book Group - MOT /www.mastersoftoday.com / the global art books publishing with editorial and business ofices in Stockholm, London and New York, a professional alternative that provides artists with a variety of options and the advantages of publishing.
M.O.T. and W.O.A. unique publications are distributed by Ingram (USA) in newsstands, bookstores and eCommerce worldwide including Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, Wal-Mart and others.
Our distinguished collaborators are Guggenheim Museum and MoMA in New York, TATE Modern in London, Rivoli Museum in Torino, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Musée D’Art Moderne ARC Paris, The Getty in Los Angeles, Art Basel, the Venice Biennial and others.
Briefly, Petru's art production includes The Middle Ages Trilogy - Love, Sex, and Death on over 361 graphic interpretations: DECAMERON (1985 etching), THE CANTERBURY TALES (1992 encaustic and digital graphic) and the TALE OF GRISELDA (1993 drawing and digital graphics). Boccaccios' Decameron (1313-1375) a 705 year-old pre-Renaissance book (1351) about love, lust, deception, murder, religion, adultery, generosity, fortune and sexual avidity of the natural woman, an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death including 101 original etchings, 51 computer graphics and creative layout created by Petru in 1985-1987. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales / Pilgrinages (1343-1400) is a limited edition of 141 interpretations on drawing, computer graphics and creative layout created by Petru in 1994 and Francis Petrarcha’s Story of Griselda (1304-1374), a tale of wifely obedience and faith is a limited edition of 78 graphics interpretations and creative layout created by Petru in 2000.
In 1987 - 1988 Petru created interpretations on etching and painting of Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE and in 1989 recreated on over 100 paintings, drawings, objects and graffiti Umberto Eco's THE PENDULUM OF FOUCAULT. Umberto Eco opened Petru’s Foucault pendulum exhibitions in Stockholm (Gummeson Gallery, December - February 1989). Petru Russu also start in 2006 his Independent and Experimental Film Production Company, Fuckando, by filmmaking Giovanni Boccaccio’s DECAMERON, an alternative of Love, Sex, and Death on 100 erotic, humoristic, allegoric stories, which provides viewer with a variety of art options and the advantages of digital filmmaking through Boccacio’s 1300 plague-stricken Florence.
