Art Addiction: 100 Contemporary Artists (Masters of Today) [Hardcover]

Petru Russu (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2003 | Series: Masters of Today (Book 1)

Art Addiction 100 Contemporary Artist is a resource book for artists, galleries, museums, dealers, art collectors, and offer an authoritative overview of art of the 1990s onwards: Art Addiction 100 Contemporary Artist is an art book as art and source of information including hundred profiles of artists representing 38 countries, reporting on the art, personalities and art trends that shape today art world.

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About the Author

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 Mi

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: World of Art Books (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9189685059
• ISBN-13: 978-9189685055
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Petru Russu (Petru Augustin Rusu), visual artist, curator, author, gallery director, editor and publisher, dual citizenship Swedish and Roumanian, born in Reghin, Mureş County, 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 Online Gallery (www.artaddiction.net) sine 1992 is the first ever and the oldest art site on the web, also is the largest virtual art gallery including 8 online global art annual exhibitions on view and one media global art biennial.

From 1999 Petru Russu is the publisher and the editor of World of Art (WOA) Global Art Magazine and World of Art (WOA) Books, an artist created art publishing of highly collectible bibliophile limited editions and collective art books (www.worldofartmagazine.com).

From 2006 Petru is also the publisher and the editor of MOT / "Masters of Today 100 Contemporary Artists" collectible, collective art book series (www.mastersoftoday.com).

MOT and WOA publications are distributed by Ingram (USA) in US newsstands, bookstores and eCommerce worldwide including Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon and many 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 at Gummeson Gallery in Stockholm, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag, The Netherlands, also in Milano, London and other galleries and cultural institutions.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pay for Show, July 13, 2008

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Addison Dewitt "I'm nobody's fool." (out there, in the dark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Art Addiction: 100 Contemporary Artists (Masters of Today) (Hardcover)

Though this book and the others in this series by Petru Russu show amazing works and are to be considered a great way to see art from around the world, the method by which these books come into being is to be looked at somewhat askance.

Much like the "vanity" galleries that exist worldwide, these books are basically pay-for-show situations, wherein the artist pays a considerable sum, (upwards of over 1500 dollars US) to be published on their pages. Basically, they would not exist if it were not for the artists paying for the entire enterprise with their entry fees. This situation leaves out all of those "genius" artists whose works may outshine those published, but sadly cannot come up with the funds necessary to enter into the "juried" selection. It would be interesting to see the jury process from the inside.

In a way, it simply reflects the standard gallery practices in most large cities. If you know the right people, have enough influence, can guarantee a following and some sales, ANY gallery will end up showing your work regardless what it looks like.

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a reflection of the ideas, June 2, 2006

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Andrea Pagnes "AP" (Florence, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Addiction: 100 Contemporary Artists (Masters of Today) (Hardcover)

Art Addiction 100 contemporary artists, in fact, is nothing other than a reflection of the idea or philosophy of a transversal, complex and at times even incomprehensible our cultural era, to provide innovative spatial dimensions, new temporal dynamics in book form.

Andrea Pagnes, art critic