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Focusing on sculptural, muralistic and medallic art, Rusdi specializes in lost wax cast bronze, paper matter and firestone. The recipient of numerous awards from Ravenna to Paris to Toronto, Rusdi is a consummate artist, but his sculpture is his passion. "My art is a kind of witnessing of our human condition," states Rusdi. "I want my art to express with forms, shapes, signs and symbols our humanness, the humorous or tragic moments of life, the complex fantasies, the awesome eccentricities that ceaselessly revive the primitiveness of our passions." He first explored lost wax casting and molding processes while working as a young artist in France with Brun, Couturier, Martin, and Volti. He had already trained in sculpture and foundry techniques at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts de Paris as well as the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montreal, and the Ecole Nationale de Fonderie de Bagneaux. He did additional studies at the University of California Long Beach and the Sculptor's Bronze Art Foundry in Los Angeles. After studying, teaching, and exhibiting in the United States, he returned to Quebec in 1975 and received his Master of Fine Art from the University of Quebec. He is a member of the Quebec Sculpture Council and has worked with the program "Monumental Sculptures for the Integration of Art to Architecture." Private and public collections throughout Canada, the United States and Europe have acquired Rusdi's sculptures. Some notable collections include: the National Archives of Canada; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; American Museum of Metallic Art in New York; the Centre Culturel de l'Ambassade du Canada, Paris; the Museum del Centro Dantesco in Ravenna, Italy; the State Museum of Berlin; the British Museum of London; and the Museum of Metallic Art in Wroclaw, Poland. For purchase and exhibit information, contact the artist: SICA Virtual Gallery © SICA 2000 |