About my sculpture-painting approach. → When I am folding, I am objective and that allows me to lose myself. —Simon Hantaï Folding-unfolding no longer simply means tension-release, contraction-dilation, but enveloping-developing, involution-evolution. —Gilles Deleuze The act of folding is both a concept and a formal process. Folding as action, illusion, and symbol has appeared throughout contemporary art and literature, from Simon Hantaï’s literal process of folding the canvas, dousing it in oil paint, then unfolding it to reveal inadvertent yet lyrical patterns; to Gilles Deleuze’s influential meditation The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1988), in which the world is interpreted as…
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About my sculpture-painting approach.
← PLIAGE / FOLDReflected Light → Feb. 01, 2019. I initially apply form to the fabric in the same way I would create a sculpture and then I let particular prime in contrast with watering Indian ink arrange themselves trough the nature of gravity, the erosion, the vibrations within the waves of the canvas. Dew drops… about my sculpture-ink approach. I work with a self made medium that behaves like oil on the canvas but with a controlled drying time-frame. This particular prime in contrast with ink enables it to flow at a certain velocity that, depending on the speed…
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← About my sculpture-painting approach.Yellow → Reflected Light. Italy, Spring 2019. Painting, Ink and acrylic on canvas. Size: 130H x 194 W cm. © 2019 Florencia S.M. Brück. When the surface through which the ink travels suddenly changes, the line often experiences partial transmission and partial velocity at the interface. ← About my sculpture-painting approach.Yellow →
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← Reflected LightTension & Interlude Solo Exhibition, 12-14 April,Venice → Yellow Italy (Venice), Spring 2019. Painting, Ink and acrylics on canvas. Size: 430 W x 160 H cm. © 2019 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS). ← Reflected LightTension & Interlude Solo Exhibition, 12-14 April,Venice →
Tension & Interlude Solo Exhibition, 12-14 April,Venice
← YellowHalo Interlude → GAD – Giudecca Art District and the General Consulate of Republic of Argentina in Milan are pleased to present Tension and Interlude a solo show of Florencia Brück. The exhibition comes at the final moment of the artist’s residence in GAD that started in the mid February. During these two months, Brück developed a corpus of new works in which she explores the nature of gravity and the actions of the erosion and vibrations within the canvases. Working with a self made preparation that behaves like oil on the canvas but with a controlled drying timeframe,…
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← Tension & Interlude Solo Exhibition, 12-14 April,VeniceTension One → Halo Interlude. Italy (Venice), Spring 2019. Painting, Ink and acrylics on canvas. Size: 96 x 152 cm. © 2019 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS). ← Tension & Interlude Solo Exhibition, 12-14 April,VeniceTension One →
Tension One
← Halo InterludeLilac Interlude → Tension One. Italy (Venice), Spring 2019. Ink on canvas. Size: 202 W x 363 H cm. © 2019 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS). NFT https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/tension-1-34249 ← Halo InterludeLilac Interlude →
Lilac Interlude
← Tension OneGAD Artist in Residence → Lilac Interlude. Italy (Venice), Spring 2019. Painting, Ink and acrylics on canvas. Size: 96 x 152 cm. © 2019 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS). ← Tension OneGAD Artist in Residence →
GAD Artist in Residence
← Lilac InterludeBRIDGE, CHORUS, VERSE, REFRAIN, ELISION, OUTRO → GAD – @giudeccaartdistrict, Artist in Residence from Feb 14 till April 14 – @one_contemporary_art #venice – Exhibition dates to be announced soon. ABOUT – GAD – GIUDECCA ART DISTRICT Giudecca Art District is a network of art professionals whose interest focuses on the island of Giudecca. GAD aims to create an attractive art pole far from the clamor of the mass tourism and close to a contemporary northern European industrial aesthetic. GAD mission is to gather the professional experiences of our team and partners, giving the opportunity to our interlocutors to be…
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← GAD Artist in ResidenceCamporsevoli 02 → BRIDGE, CHORUS, VERSE, REFRAIN, ELISION, OUTRO, Italy, winter 2019. Chinese ink on canvas. Size: 63 x 93 cm ← GAD Artist in ResidenceCamporsevoli 02 →
Camporsevoli 02
← BRIDGE, CHORUS, VERSE, REFRAIN, ELISION, OUTROCamporsevoli 01 → Camporsevoli 02, Italy, summer 2018. Painting, Ink and acrylics on canvas. Size: 300 W x 210 H cm. © 2018 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. ← BRIDGE, CHORUS, VERSE, REFRAIN, ELISION, OUTROCamporsevoli 01 →
Camporsevoli 01
← Camporsevoli 02Home → Camporsevoli 01, Italy, summer 2018. Painting, Ink and acrylics on canvas. Size: 300 W x 160 H cm. © 2018 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. ← Camporsevoli 02Home →