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Masters Of Today Ltd
(MOT) is a non-profit making trust, with no remit to make profit,
all fees go into the editing and basic running costs of the
demanding art publishing. MOT provides high standard of creative
art publishing from the world’s leading art capital.
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Petru Russu, editor
and publisher, visual
artist, curator, author, gallery director,
Swedish citizen born in Transylvania (Reghin), 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 of AAIG /Art Addiction International Gallery (Stockholm 1992-1997)
an art company
registered by the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, and
Piccola Galeria Correr (Venice 1997-1999). Sine 1992 AAMM - Art Addiction Medial Museum / www.artaddiction.net / is the first ever and the
oldest artsite on www and the largest virtual art
gallery including 11 online global art annual and one medial global art biennial on display. From 1999 Petru
is the publisher and the editor of WOA Publishing (World of Art
Publishing) /www.worldofartmagazine.com
/global art magazine and global art books, company registered by the Swedish Patent and Registration
Office and HQ's in Stockholm and London.
From 2006 Petru is publisher and editor of MOT /www.mastersoftoday.com / Masters of Today
global art books publishing from Stockholm and London, professional
editing alternative that provides artists with the advantages of
creative publishing.
MOT unique publications are distributed in newsstands, bookstores and eCommerce worldwide including
Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon and many others. MOT /WOA's
distinguished collaborators are Guggenheim Museums 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 many others.
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Briefly, Petru's art production includes The Middle Ages Trilogy -
Love, Sex, and Death on over 361 graphic interpretations: DECAMERON
(1985 etchings /aqua forte /aqua tinta and drawings), THE CANTERBURY TALES (1992 encaustic and digital
graphic) and the TALE OF GRISELDA (1993 drawing and digital graphics).
Boccaccios' Decameron (1313-1375) a 707 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. Francis Petrarcha’s
Story of Griselda (1304-1374), a tale of wifely obedience and faith
is a limited edition of 78 graphics interpretations in 2000.
In 1987 - 1988 Petru recreated Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF
THE ROSE and in 1989 recreated on over 100 paintings, drawings,
objects and graffiti Umberto Eco's FOUCAULT PENDULUM. Eco opened Petru’s exhibitions in Stockholm
at Gummeson Gallery (December 1989).
In 2007 Petru Russu also start his experimental film production by filmmaking Boccaccio’s DECAMERON, an
alternative of Love, Sex, and Death on 100 erotic, humoristic,
allegoric stories through Boccacio’s
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