Carmit Hassine
Carmit Hassine
Carmit Hassine (b. 1977) lives and works in Tel Aviv. A graduate of the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel (2018), she holds a BFA from Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (specializing in photography), Florence (2006), and has studied privately under several leading Israeli and international artists, over the years.
Her work spans mainly installation and sculpture in unconventional materials, including silicone and charcoal powder.
Her sculptural works offer interpretations of various body parts while crossbreeding different bodies, such as organic and artificial. Her oeuvre consists of several clusters of works, each typified by different materials and techniques. The silicone-based works echo the coloration and materiality of the human body. Their colors range from those of a vital body to those of a sick or dying body. The blackness of the charcoal powder sculptures reflects the essence of the material and the sense conveyed by a hard and durable organic substance that is temporarily presented as skeletal and powdery.
The essence of the images is often determined by the use of paramedical objects employed as bodily aids. The sculptures corresponding with various prostheses strive to function as extensions of the human body.
In other instances, the image draws away from the original object, presenting itself as a mutation between the natural and the artificial.
Hassine’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and overseas, and she has won international awards in two photography exhibitions.
Education
2016-2018 Postgraduate studies in art, Hamidrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College, Israel
2009-2011 Private drawing lessons, Menachem Mizrachi studio, Israel
2002-2006 Bachelor of fine art with excellence, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy
2000-2001 Studies of fine art, Hamidrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College, Israel
1998 Private photography lessons, Jacob Bernstein studio, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
2020 The Biennale of Art, 2020, Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv
2019 What does the matter want? Givon Art Forum Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Breakwater, Jaffa well Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2019 Impersonating, Central Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Pottery Slam 2, Bet Benyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Life, Bialik Rogozin, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Flexibility Exercises, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 Chocolate Anatomy, The White House Gallery, Nir Oz, Israel
2017 Viewing Remote, Moack Museum, Krakow, Poland
2007 Secret Art Fair, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Complete Always Missing, Municipal Theater of Givatayim, Israel
2006 Military Girls, Arno S. Croce Gallery, Florence, Italy
2006 Military Girls, Rotte Metropolitan, Florence, Italy
2006 Verso I Monti di Profumi, Rufina, Italy
2006 Details, Gallery Quarter, Florence, Italy
2004 Photography Exhibition, Libera Accademia di Belle Arte, Florence, Italy
2003 Photography Exhibition, Libera Accademia di Belle Arte, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Venus Vaginus, Kitchen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Awards and Scholarships
2006 Second prize, wildlife category, Local Testament Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 First prize, Scoop du Festival, Angers, France
The Brandes Collection working grant
Collections
Bank Leumi, Israel
Orit Efrati Collection, Israel
Private collections in Israel and abroad
