Our Team
Meet The Team
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Born in Brussels in 1966; moved to Israel, Alyah in 1982
BA degree in Social Work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Founder of “Yeutze Zahav” (“Golden Services” in Hebrew), the first private social service founded in 1993, providing assistance, orientation, and support for the elderly and for their relatives in Israel. Yeutze Zahav is among the precursors in this field. Sophie has managed Yeutze Zahav for 12 consecutive years.
Her husband’s relocation brought them to Luxembourg and then Switzerland (2004 – 2014) – 10 years abroad.
From abroad Sophie worked between 2009 and 2013 for the design and foundation of an association of consulting companies for the elderly in order to set strict standards and ethical rules to be recognised by the Health Ministry and Ministry of Social Affairs and Welfare.
In 2014, Sophie returned with her family to Israel. Since then, she has been pursuing her love for Art – delving into sculpture, portraiture, drawings and sketches and involved in different Artivism projects.
About Michel Platnic
Michel Platnic (1970), born in France, obtained a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1994. He obtained several patents and authored many publications when he worked as an Engineer for more than a decade. He moved to Israel at 28 and found his artistic voice in his new place of residence and went on to study theatre, performance, martial arts, and dance. Realizing his inclination towards the Fine Arts, Platnic graduated in 2010 with honors in Fine Arts from the Midrasha School of Art in Israel. That very year, he received the Shpilman Grant for Excellence in Photography and was selected by ST-ART, an incubator project for young artists. In 2017, Platnic completed the Art&Media “Meisterschüler” program of the Universität der Künste (post-M.A.) in Berlin.
Platnic’s work unfolds through multiple media including photography, video, new media, performance, painting and the links that bring them closer together. Platnic has been creating illusionary worlds and letting the viewer become part of them. Immersion in these spaces is employed as a means of deconditioning. Observing and reenacting the rituals and symbols of power, Platnic tracks down the mechanisms that authority uses to submit, to condition and to create participants in its system. By laying out the conditions of aesthetic subversiveness (notably in his series of living paintings, with its formal work on the voluntary confusion of media), Platnic beckons us to take notice of the forces that tacitly and without our knowledge indenture us.
Exhibitions:
Platnic’s works have been exhibited in galleries, institutions and museums across Israel and abroad. His solo exhibitions include the Multi-Media Art Museum, Moscow (2015), The Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai, Israel (2014), Haifa Museum, Haifa, IL (2012), Ramat-Gan Museum, Ramat-Gan, IL (2011), Art Stage Art Fair, Singapore (2015), Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv (2017 & 2014) and Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel-Aviv (2013). Platnic has also participated in group exhibitions around the world including the Changjiang Biennale of Photo&Video, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art (2015), Gutman Museum, Tel-Aviv (2014 & 2015), Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv (2011), Tel-Aviv Museum (2011), FusionsArts Museum, New York (2010), the National Academy of Arts, Kiev (2017), Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel (2015) and the Gazelli Art House, London (2013).
Press:
Numerous articles have been published on Platnic’s works, for example in The Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, Russia, Artdaily, Asia, Ocula, Asia Pacific, Nylon Magazine, Art Times, United-States, Lifestyle Asia, Randian, China Art Times, China, Elephant Magazine, Phaidon, United Kingdom, Artribune, Artsblog, Italy, Art and Only, Switzerland, Haaretz – Galeria, Time-Out, Telavivian, Forbes, Calcalist, Ms. Use Magazine, A5 Magazine, i24News – Culture, Cable News Channel – Aroutz 98, Kol Israel Radio, Zman Avir – Channel1, Israel.
Massimiliano was born and grew up in Prato, a small medieval city in Tuscany, well renowned for its textile industry and the wide Chinese community. He graduated in foreign languages from the University of Florence and the University of Bologna. As a big fan of China and Chinese culture, he has studied mandarin for some time.
His passion has led him to work for TIAC, a Chinese artistic group, for almost three years, during which time he successfully managed the organization of art exhibitions and workshops, with some of the most important living Masters of contemporary figurative art, such as Odd Nerdrum and Golucho. He also worked as a curriculum supervisor during some camps for kids in China, as a collaboration between TIAC and a Chinese company.
Massimiliano Giunta was on the organizing committee of the Art World Forum Florence themed “Artists Take the Lead” in 2018.
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