Michel Platnic - My Blog

Charles II

2011-05-15T19:22:00.001+03:00

4x5in. Large Format Positive
Lambda print, 197x125cm

Ed. 5+1

Victoria

2011-05-15T19:11:00.005+03:00

4x5in. Large Format Positive
Inkjet print, 197x150cm

Ed. 5+1

Charles II and Victoria - Installation work

2011-05-15T18:24:00.000+03:00

Picture

2010-08-25T15:16:00.001+03:00

4x5in. Large Format Positive
Lambda print, 117x150cm

Ed. 5+1

Family Dinner - Video Installation

2010-07-27T21:23:00.013+03:00

Tri-dimensional video projected on a sculpture 85x97x65cm.
Front view

Back view

Theatre - Video Installation

2010-06-28T19:28:00.002+03:00

Tri-dimensional video Installation. Projection on wood on the floor.
Front View

Back View

Reconstruction - Video Installation

2010-06-24T16:59:00.002+03:00

Video proje cted on objects and subjects- 12 cubic meters

A quote from Jacques Ranciere

2010-06-23T11:37:00.000+03:00

'[...] Even now, in spite of the so-called postmodern scepticism about changing life, we can see so many shows turned to religious mysteries that it might not seem outrageous to hear that words are only words. Breaking away with the phantasms of the Word made flesh and the spectator turned active, knowing that words are only words and spectacles only spectacles may help us better understand how words, stories and performances can help us change something in the world where we are living.'
Jacques Ranciere: The Emancipated Spectator - Video and
Text - 2009.

Joseph Beuys - "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare" (performance, 1965)

2010-06-22T01:00:00.001+03:00

"The idea of explaining to an animal conveys a sense of the secrecy of the world and of existence that appeals to the imagination. Then, as I said, even a dead animal preserves more powers of intuition than some human beings with their stubborn rationality. “The problem lies in the word ‘understanding’ and its many levels which cannot be restricted to rational analysis. Imagination, inspiration, and longing all lead people to sense that these other levels also play a part in understanding". Joseph Beuys

The spirit of the age, Lewis B.

2010-06-11T13:40:00.004+03:00

'At certain point in art history, art lapses into decadence. "grand styles" become formulated as set of rules. There is exageration and multiplication instead of development. A once-new armory of artistic concepts, processes, techniques and themes becomes an archive of visual tropes, quotations or paraphrasing, ultimately assuming the mode of self-parody. [...] During the last ten years, I believe we have witnessed the same process not just for conceptualism [...] but for the entire modernist period [...] Let's call it "decamodernism"'

Lewis B., Into the Dustbin, Programma, Tel-Aviv, Spring 2010, p116.

Menorah - Performance

2010-06-10T11:29:00.005+03:00

Magen David

2010-05-19T12:19:00.000+03:00

Still from the performance 'Magen David' made in Halalit Gallery during the Tel-aviv performance festival 'Oz in the city' - 2010
Performance lasted 1 hour 30 min.

Lambda print, 50x50cm

Body as a platform

2010-04-05T18:14:00.001+03:00

In the following works, I built sets that use my body as a platform. I position myself in a space and create a set that may resemble a painting. My works are usually made so that there perspective rules are valid from a specific view point in space. Away from this point, the image is deformed. For example, "Self Portrait in a Pool" was done as a trompe l'oeil, another example is seen in the photograph series "red" where the bed was constructed in such a way that the legs disappear when looked from a specific angle.

The main focus of my work is on the disappearance of the third dimension after a photograph is taken. I attempt to build sets that take into account this disappearance, not in order to give back the illusion of the third dimension, but to manipulate it, transform or deliberately annihilate it.

Red

2010-03-05T17:55:00.011+02:00

6x7 Mid-format and digital pictures from the perfomance: Red.
Painting and video projection and walls and body.

Lambda print, 90x150cm

Video of the performance. Original is in HD format. During the performance I remained still on the metal bed while the video projected sun was rising and falling.

Swimming Pool

2009-08-03T01:21:00.006+03:00

6*7 Mid-Format Negative
Lambda print, 90x115cm
Acrylic on Body and Walls

Swimming-pool Performance

2009-08-03T01:19:00.009+03:00

Video Art made after a three hours performance. during which I painted on the walls and on myself. 8min video of the 3 hour performance which took place in Beit Berl, Israel:

Digital Prints

Self-Portrait

2009-08-03T01:15:00.016+03:00

6x7 Mid Format Photography
Lambad print, 84x60cm

Acrylic on Body

Video Art of the living Painting (Tableau Vivant)
Video Art made after a one hour performance. during which I painted on myself to try ressemble a self-portrait I made of myself six months before.

Passants

2009-08-02T11:30:00.000+03:00

Video made out of stills taken in Paris in summertime.

This video took part in the CineForte6 cinamatheque festival, Tel-Aviv. It has also been presented in a TV broadcast dedicated to art, on channel 1 (zman avir - 18-05-09).

Photo Work

2009-08-02T01:31:00.000+03:00

Black&White pictures 30x42cm

A quote

2008-08-30T11:36:00.000+03:00

Artistic Creation must be imbued with intention and meaning. Art main purpose is to heal and reddem nature, society, the surrounding environment or the world in its entirety. (by museum TLV about Dany Karavan)

Still-Motion Video Art

2008-08-18T18:53:00.000+03:00

Metro Passe

Pont des Arts

Diary

2008-08-17T17:35:00.003+03:00

Oil painting

2008-08-15T15:11:00.002+03:00

Oil on Canvas 50x70cm

Oil on Bristol 50X35cm

Drawing - Oil

2008-08-13T11:17:00.000+03:00

Oil on paper 70x50cm

Sculpture

2008-08-05T13:38:00.000+03:00

Plaster 1x1m

Icarus' Second Flight

2007-11-19T17:23:00.004+02:00

Sculpture exhibited in October 2007 at the Cinematheque of Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Marble and Steel 180x70x40cm.

Mankind faces a moment of truth like Icarus, the Greek mythology hero. The myth of Icarus embodies the utopia of the invention of flight. The moment he discovers that his wax made wings made start to melt under the sun’s heat is decisive: he has the choice to continue upward and meet his death, or change course.
Icarus’ story is relevant today more than ever. Yet, this time we have a chance to rewrite a happier and more optimistic ending to the story by taking a sustainable path for future generations.

All the materials used for this sculpture were collected from abandoned sites or reclaimed from disuse.

Concrete head

2007-11-16T07:01:00.000+02:00

Concrete 25*18*13cm

A belief that all 'waste' is worth a second life - Everything.. even concrete coming from building demolition and thrown into illegal or abandoned sites can be reclaimed.

Sculpture made of recycled concrete.

Time Machine

2007-11-11T18:16:00.000+02:00

Acrylic on Duplex 70x50cm

Memories from Irian Jaya

2007-11-02T00:04:00.001+02:00

Acrylic on Canvas 50x60cm

Acrylic on Bristol 50x35cm

Jacques

2006-10-16T18:27:00.001+02:00

Bronze, 32x17x23cm

Seneca

2006-10-14T00:13:00.000+02:00

Plaster, 42x26x26cm

Clay

2006-08-10T00:41:00.001+03:00

13x17x16
cm