Michel Platnic
b. 1970

b. 1970
Charles II, 2011,
Full HD video on flat screen in artist frame,
100X68 cm.
Edition: 4/6 + 2 AP.

The work is accompanied by an artist box including digital media files and a certificate of authenticity signed by the Artist.

The work was exhibited several times in Israel and internationally, is reproduced over several pages in the artist’s book, and has been publicized widely in articles both locally and internationally. For more information, please ask the auction house personnel.

A former electrical engineer, Michel Platnic was born in France in 1970, but found his artistic vocation after relocating to Israel at age 28, where he went on to study theatre, performance, martial arts and dance. Realizing his inclination towards Fine Arts, Platnic graduated in 2010 with honors from the Midrasha School of Art, where Serge Tiroche selected him for the START program. Soon after this encounter, Platnic started making his framed ”living paintings”, which have since become the core of his practice. Often based on famous masterpieces which he revives through a combination of painting, sculpture, costume and set design, lighting, photography and video, they are usually based on a master-work that Michel wants to re-interpret. Using computer driven calculations, Platnic designs and builds accurate sets in which he embeds actors whose bodies are often painted from head to toe. He then films and photographs the scenes to recreate an almost identical work to the original, but his versions live and breathe.