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Michel Platnic
Multi-media artist
born 1970
Graduate of The School Of Art, Hamidrasha, Beit Berl, 2010
Lives and works in Tel-Aviv
Michel Platnic is a multi-media artist, he builds installations while combining various media such as painting, sculpting, video and performance. The technical skills and processes involved to create the imaginary spaces are often a lure to attract the spectator into an imaginary world that encloses an internal system of rules.
Often positioning himself in these created spaces, Platnic uses his body as a platform, a tool; creating a set that may resemble a painting. The 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 "white" and "red" where the bed was constructed in such a way that the legs disappear when looked from a specific angle and the whole set becomes unknown and flat.
One of the focus of the works is on the disappearance of the third dimension after a photograph is taken. Platnic attempts 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.
More than questions related to media, Platnic’s research is concerned with the systems of understanding we use to decode images and more generally, to encompass the interactions between the surroundings and our own body. What kind of intellectual, emotional, or intuitional awareness do we develop and implement to comprehend them? What is the role our body plays in the illusion of perception we have from our environment? Both the body of the artist - or the spaces he creates - and the spectator are involved in this research.
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