Venice International Summer Academy
Venice International Summer Academy
In 2016 Florencia S.M. Brück continued her studies at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and Media in Venice, taking Master Class Painting I with Professor Wolf Werdigier and Master Class Painting III with Professor Lois Renner.
The academy, rooted in the tradition of Black Mountain College and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, works with the Venice Biennale, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Pinault Collection at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.
The progression towards abstraction
In a square I found form, which encompassed one of the figurative artworks I did during this week’s class. The light and shadow inside the box transformed the space from where I started detaching myself from figuration.
The use of fabric over the paintings also helped me to connect with texture and senses, opening the doors to a vast realm of perceptions.
By ripping apart all the figurative artworks I did into unrecognizable shapes and placing them in random locations into the canvas, letting chance play its part, I began the abstract journey.
What once was a figurative shape became free from its original form.
The eyes were intentionally displaced in absolute subjective locations to invite the viewer to look at things from an alternative perspective. To look inwards.
Art for me is about consciousness, about meaning… It is about finding the inner perspective on how we look at things. My work is above all a poetic vision.
Francis Bacon said that he walked what he called the “tightrope between abstraction and figuration” to ask existential questions about the image of man.
