B. 25.06.1985
Andre Rusu is residing in London
(Great Britain) and Stockholm (Sweden)
Artist Statement
I always try to bring out an idea or a concept
with my works. In my opinion if a work of art can bring up something
that you don’t usually think about you will get a new experience and
maybe reflect upon what you have seen.
The strength with the way I work
might be that my works are visually interesting; my main focus when
it comes to the actual making of a work is the aesthetics of it but
nonetheless how much potential it has. I never make something
without thinking of its potential.
I think I have faced problems that
most artists face. I can honestly say that I am never content with
what I do because before I finish something I already have a new
idea that is going to be much better. So it’s a never-ending process
that takes a lot of work. But at the same time the difficulty of it
is what makes it interesting at the end of the day.
I have tried to combine a lot of
aspects and medias in solving weaknesses with my art, if for example
I make a painting that I don’t find particularly good, I might make
a digital version of it and try to combine them in some way. Its all
about thinking ahead.
Media, books, architecture,
nature, design have all influenced me. In many ways I’m a slave to
what I see around me and my art is a projection of that.
I have studied different
techniques and styles in art which has given me a broad knowledge in
different art types.
My works are all to some extent an experiment
with medias and techniques, not only to give them another dimension
but also to find myself in my work.
Art and
Aesthetic Judgement
To what
extent and in what ways might the arts be regarded as a
representation of reality?
To
interpret all aspects of nature
Art is the
means to interpret all aspects of nature, to capture an instant, the
emotion of a face, the movement of the human form, the peacefulness
of scenery, the joy of a flower.
Feelings
and emotions all of the grandeur and majesty of Creation,
transmitting the joy of life, interpretations of beauty, emotions
and feelings, through colour, light and form.
The
investigation and study of the aesthetical qualities of a work of
art will allow us to understand exhaustively the processes of
transformation and transfiguration of reality of a certain ideas
developed by an artist.
What is
the proper function of art?
The Revealing Power
is the function of art, scripture, ritual and mediation
Art
becomes a subject of knowledge, a phenomenon, or an idea because any
artistic creation can not be considered separately, but should be
thought of as a moment and a result of historical
-artistic process
in whose context we will be able to understand its full meaning. In
this way the history of art itself becomes a way of researching and
of viewing the world.
The
Ancient Greek considered art as concept of imitation, purifying-or
rather educationally role.
The Middle Ages emphasized the nature of the subordination of beauty
to truth and justified art as an allegory.
The
Renaissance considered art as imitation, and the principle of
verisimilitude as its fundamental rule.
The modem
aesthetics claimed that the autonomy of art is a form of
pre-logical, intuitive knowledge, the creative faculty of which is
imagination.
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