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Israeli sculptor and experimental artist

Yaacov Agam
יעקב אגם
Yaacov Agam in front of a building he busy in Tel Baruch, Tel Aviv, Israel
Born	Yaakov Gipstein xi May 1928 Rishon LeZion, Mandatory Palestine
Citizenship	Israeli
Instruction	The Bezalel University of Art and Design in Jerusalem, the Kunstgewerbe Schule
Occupation	Sculptor and experimental creative person
Known for	Contributions to optical and kinetic fine art

Yaacov Agam (Hebrew: יעקב אגם) (born 11 May 1928) is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist widely known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.

Biography [edit]

Yaacov Gibstein (later Agam) was born in Rishon LeZion, at the fourth dimension Mandate Palestine. His father, Yehoshua Gibstein, was a rabbi and a kabbalist.^[1]

Agam trained at the Bezalel University of Art and Design in Jerusalem, before moving to Zürich, Switzerland in 1949, where he studied under Johannes Itten (1888–1967) at the Kunstgewerbe Schule, and was also influenced by the painter and sculptor Max Nib (1908–1994).

In 1951 Agam moved to Paris, France, where he notwithstanding lives.^[2] He has a daughter and 2 sons, 1 of whom is the lensman Ron Agam.^[3]

Creative career [edit]

Agam'due south showtime solo exhibition was at the Galerie Chicken, Paris, in 1953,^[4] and he exhibited three works at the 1954 Salon des Réalités Nouvelles^[v] and at the Le Mouvement exhibition at the Galerie Denise René, Paris, in 1955.

Agam'south work is ordinarily abstract, kinetic art, with movement, viewer participation and frequent employ of light and sound. His works are placed in many public places. His all-time known pieces include Double Metamorphosis III (1965), Visual Music Orchestration (1989) and fountains at the La Défense district in Paris (1975) and the Fire and Water Fountain in the Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv (1986). He is as well known for a type of impress known as an Agamograph, which uses barrier-filigree animation to present radically different images, depending on the angle from which it is viewed. The lenticular technique was executed in large calibration in the xxx ft (9.1 chiliad) foursquare "Complex Vision" (1969) which adorns the facade of the Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.^[6]

Agam had a retrospective exhibition in Paris at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in 1972, and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1980, among others. His works are held in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art^[7] and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.^[8]

He is the subject of two documentary films by American filmmaker Warren Forma: Possibilities of Agam (1967) and Agam and... (1980).

In 1996, he was awarded the Jan Amos Comenius Medal past UNESCO for the "Agam Method" for visual educational activity of young children.

He designed and created the winner'south trophy for the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest that was held in Jerusalem.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In 2009, at historic period 81, Agam created a monument for the World Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan titled Peaceful Communication with the World. It consists of nine 10m high hexagon pillars positioned in diamond or square formation. The sides of the pillars are painted in different patterns and hues, totaling more than 180 shades. I side of each pillar is also lined to segment the construction into sections, and so that children'southward perception of the colonnade will alter as they grow, considering they volition see a different pillar at a unlike height.^[9]

Ane of Agam's more notable creations is the Hanukkah Menorah at the corner of Fifth Artery and 59th Street in New York City, sponsored by the Lubavitch Youth System. The 32-foot-loftier, gold colored, 4,000 pound steel structure is recognized past the Guinness Book of World Records equally the World'south Largest Hanukkah Menorah. Information technology uses existent oil lamps, which are lighted every year during Hanukkah with the aid of cherry-picking machines.^{[10] [eleven]}

In May 2014, Agam'southward piece Faith- Visual Pray was presented to Pope Francis by El Al State of israel Airlines' president, David Maimon. The piece included meaning symbols of both Jewish and Christian faiths.^[12]

Agam is the highest-selling Israeli creative person. In a Sotheby'due south New York auction in November 2009, when his 4 Themes Contrepoint was sold for $326,500, he said: "This does not astonish me … my prices volition go upwards, in keeping with the history I made in the fine art globe." A year later, his Growth, an outsize kinetic painting done in oil on a forest panel, which was shown at the 1980 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, estimated at $150,000 to $250,000, sold for the record-breaking sum of $698,000.^[13]

In 2018, the 3,200-square-meter Yaacov Agam Museum of Art (YAMA) opened in the creative person'due south hometown of Rishon LeZion, State of israel.^[14] Agam told the Jerusalem Post that information technology is "the merely museum in the world that is dedicated to fine art in motility."^[15]

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  Facade of Dan Hotel, Tel Aviv

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  Eighteen Levels (1971)

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  Lighting of World'southward Largest Menorah in New York City (2016)

See also [edit]

• Visual arts in Israel
• List of public art in State of israel

References [edit]

1. ^ "At fourscore, Yaakov Agam nonetheless vibrant with his artwork and other ideas" (PDF). Jerusalem Telegraphic Bureau. 5 June 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2010. ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. ^ Avraham Ronen (sixteen July 1998). "Agam Reconsidered". The Israel Review of Arts and Messages 1996/103. Israel Ministry building of Strange Affairs' website.
3. ^ Haim Handwerker (24 August 2009). "Dusty Memories". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 Dec 2010.
4. ^ Exhibition at Galerie Craven, Paris, thirty October–12 Nov 1953. Ragon, p. 33.
5. ^ Ragon, p. 7.
6. ^ "Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital". Archived from the original on thirteen January 2002. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
7. ^ Yaacov Agam (1975). "Coordination II, Screenprint". The Collection, MOMA. Retrieved 22 Dec 2010.
8. ^ Yaacov Agam (1974). "Portfolio Suite 3, Screenprint". Mildred Lane Kemper Fine art Museum. Retrieved 22 Dec 2010.
9. ^ Jenny West. Hsu (24 February 2009). "Agam Installation Exemplifies Peace for Upcoming Kaohsiung World Games". The Taipei Times . Retrieved 22 Dec 2010.
10. ^ Pamela Skillings. "Hanukkah Events in New York Metropolis". Most.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
11. ^ Margolin, Dovid (one January 2017). "The Adult female Behind the Fifth Avenue Menorah". Chabad.org . Retrieved 28 Nov 2021.
12. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: Israeli Creative person Yaacov Agam Explains Jewish Kinetic Rainbow Painting Presented to Pope Francis". The Algemeiner. 29 May 2014. Retrieved nineteen September 2014.
13. ^ Avital Burg (twenty Dec 2010). "Art work past Israel'south Yaacov Agam sells for record-breaking sum in Northward.Y. In an auction organized past Sotheby'due south, 'Growth' sets a new loftier for sales toll received by any Israeli artist in history". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
14. ^ Leichman, Abigail Klein (22 January 2018). "Yaacov Agam Museum of Art opens in Rishon LeZion". Israel21c . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
15. ^ "Agam Museum in Rishon Lezion celebrates renowned Israeli creative person". The Jerusalem Mail service . Retrieved xv March 2019.

Bibliography [edit]

• Ragon, Michel (1975). Agam: 54 mots cles pour une lecture polyphonique d'Agam (in French). Paris: Éditions Georges Fall. OCLC 2876738.
• Sayako Aragaki (2007). Agam. Beyond the Visible (3 ed.). Gefen Publishing Business firm, Jerusalem/New York. ISBN978-965-229-405-0.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1980). Homage to Yaacov Agam. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition. Leon Amiel, New York. ISBN978-0-8148-0751-4.
• Frank Popper (1968). Origins and Development of Kinetic Art. Studio Vista and New York Graphic Society.
• Frank Popper (1990). Yaacov Agam (3 ed.). H.North. Abrams, New York. ISBN978-0-8109-1897-9.

External links [edit]

• Works past or about Yaacov Agam in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• "Yaacov Agam's Bio". Yaacov Agam'southward Fine Fine art. Archived from the original on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2004.
• Park W Gallery Artist Profile: Yaacov Agam on YouTube
• Avraham Ronen (16 July 1998). "Agam Reconsidered". The Israel Review of Arts and Letters 1996/103. Israel Ministry building of Foreign Affairs' website.
• Yaacov Agam collection at the State of israel Museum. Retrieved September 2016.
• Yaacov Agam in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

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