Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha — Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, enlightenment, svaha. This photographic series explores the threshold between selfhood and dissolution, presence and absence. Nude, wrapped in transparent plastic, the body becomes both visible and veiled — suspended between exposure and erasure. The plastic membrane becomes a metaphorical chrysalis, a second skin that hints at suffocation and rebirth. Inspired by transcendental meditation (TM), this work investigates altered psycho-physiological states as liminal territories. Just as the Third Law of Thermodynamics implies the slowing of molecular motion toward absolute zero, TM evokes a subtle stillness — a…
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Technological engagement against nature for survival #enjambredigital
Inspired by reading Vilém Flusser, I created this video art piece. The technological engagement against nature for survival. The inevitability of death and the cycle of renewal. Human culture is absurd, a failed attempts to attain immortality by preserving information after its creator’s death in the form of artifacts that eventually crumble and fade. “technology & culture” are products of a “natural” neuronal circuits in human brains.
Read moreWearing Off
Wearing Off, 2017. Acrylic on Paper 35 x 38.7 x 0.1 cm Wearing Off the matter and intensifying the senses. The collection is compose by 12 works on paper.
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh is the main character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an Akkadian poem that is considered the first great work of literature, and in earlier Sumerian poems. … distress about Enkidu’s death causes Gilgamesh to undertake a long and perilous journey to discover the secret of eternal life. He eventually learns that “Life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands”. Gilgamesh, Buenos Aires, summer 2017. Painting, sgraffito Oil on canvas with back LED installation. Size: 120 W x 150 H…
Read moreCasa FOA 2016 :: Hadron Collider
FLORENCIA S.M. BRÜCK & JAVIER E. KRASUK Espacio de Arte #41 :: Hadron Collider Site Specific Art Installation – Suprasensorial // Experiments in Light, Color, Sound, Cinematic and Space. Acrylic on canvas, Size: 190 W x 120 H cm. with stainless still lines and light installation. Buenos Aires, Summer 2016 The art installation challenges the space as a container. Light cables expand from a contemporary acrylic painting to challenge the lines within the space/room combined with cinematics and sound to further experience a boundaryless space. The name “Hadron Collider” was inspired by the LHC in Switzerland, the world’s largest and most…
Read moreWhitening Objects
The form is so strong that even if I remove their colors they still have an identity. Change in context produced no change in accuracy, suggesting that access to memory for object color is independent of shape and texture information. Color seems to be an independently accessible feature of memory representation rather than an integral part of a prototypic representation. When things do not have a use anymore I just paint them white like if by removing their color they became invisible, but the objects are creating their own stories anyways. For more information read this study “Siple, P. &…
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Stop–motion animation project developed in 8 hours, July 2016. Collaborative work. Abstract Painting, Animation, Sound, ScriptFlorencia San Martin Brück Animation, ScriptJavier Krasuk Figurative PaintingsLorena Wildberger Photography ShootingPavel Kraus SculptureDoris Maria Kofler
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Inspirada en los textos de “Las ciudades invisibles” de Italo Calvino, es un verdadero alegato anti-consumista premonitorio del devenir. “……. las escamas de su pasado se sueldan en una coraza que no se puede quitar; renovándose cada día, la ciudad se conserva toda a sí misma en la única forma definitiva: la de los desperdicios de ayer que se amontonan sobre los desperdicios de anteayer y de todos sus días y años y lustros.” Leonia, Buenos Aires, Spring 2016. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New…
Cylon
A cyborg (“cybernetic organism”) is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. In popular culture, some cyborgs may be represented as visibly mechanical (e.g., the Cybermen in the Doctor Who franchise or The Borg from Star Trek or Darth Vader from Star Wars) or as almost indistinguishable from humans (e.g., the “Human” Cylons from the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, etc.). Cylon, Buenos Aires, Dec 2016. Painting, sgraffito Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society…
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“Abyssus Abyssum Invocat” Latin phrase meaning “One misstep leads to another” or, literally, “Hell calls hell.” A warning that the first step in the temptation to go astray from what is right (or morally correct) is difficult to prevent; however, we must always be on guard to strive for what is ethical and honorable. Abyssus, Buenos Aires, summer 2016. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Sibyl
The sibyls were women that the ancient Greeks believed were oracles. The earliest sibyls, according to legend, prophesied at holy sites. Their prophecies were influenced by divine inspiration from a deity; originally at Delphi and Pessinos, the deities were chthonic deities. Sibyl, Buenos Aires, summer 2016. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Flora’s augmented reality by proximity
Flora’s augmented reality. 2016. Oil painting on canvas and projection mapping. Like hiding secrets the painting will grow flowers in time. #oilpainting#contemporaryart#generativeart#mapping#art
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Florencia Bruck creates her paintings using oil on canvas; she works with rubber brushes to remove paint creating multiple layers of different densities that are then lit from behind by custom LED structures. Illuminating the total surface is easy but she goes a step forward and illuminates only certain areas that allow the rich, deep colors of each layer to come alive and mesmerize the viewer. The light is controlled by a remote dimmer and the observer can adjust the intensity to his/her liking, creating a unique collaborative experience between the artist, the painting, the light and the viewer. The…
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Isabel. Buenos Aires, Fall 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Isabella of Castile So humble a visage:amongst reverent murmursthe Catholic Queen Isabella rides. How appropriate: her face a font of grace, pliant nose a sheer peak, a razor’s edge of Pyreenic granite coated in cold frosts. Dash on! To forge a Kingdom as magnificent as the mountains inherent in her blood. © Eric S. Stachowiak.
L’Annunciazione
L’Annunciazione. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Annunciation is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation. Gabriel told Mary to name her son Jesus, meaning “Saviour”. Many Christians observe this event with the Feast of the Annunciation on 25 March, nine full months before Christmas, the ceremonial birthday of…
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Lady Blue Bombay. Buenos Aires, fall 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York A blue flower is a central symbol of inspiration. It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable. It symbolizes hope and the beauty of things. In the book Heinrich von Ofterdingen the blue flower symbolises the joining of human with nature and the spirit so the understanding of nature and coincident of the self is growing. In the Romantic…
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NDE (near-death experience). Buenos Aires, Fall 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York When I finished painting this piece I saw a door and a cross at the bottom of the canvas that I never drew intentionally. I decided to call it NDE (near-death experience) since I feel these are my near-death experiences that came out from my unconscious. I had my first near-death experience when I was a child, perhaps at the age of 5. It involved…
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Breena (Tierra de hadas). Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Breena, un lugar encantado, un jardín mágico dónde las hadas cuidan los secretos y tesoros del mundo… “HADA” deriva del vocablo latino fata, que a su vez procede de fatum, el Hado, el destino. Breena, an enchanted place, a magical garden where the fairies guard the secrets and treasures of the world … ” FAIRY ” derives from the Latin word fata, which in…
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Beulah. Buenos Aires, summer 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York In William Blake’s mythology, Beulah is “the realm of the Subconscious, the source of poetic inspiration and of dreams.”