Yaacov Agam
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Yaacov Agam (Hebrew) (born 11 May 1928) is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.
Artistic career
In 1953, Agam's first solo exhibition at the Galerie Craven, Paris, and he exhibited three works at the 1954 Salon des Réalités Nouvelles and the Le Mouvement exhibition at the Galerie Denise René, Paris.
Agam's works are often abstract, kinetic art, with movement, viewer participation, and regular use of light and sound. His works are on display in several public spaces. Double Metamorphosis III (1965), Visual Music Orchestration (1989), La Défense district in Paris (1975), and the Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv (1986). He is also known for a line of print called an "Agamograph," which uses barrier-grid animation to produce radically different photographs, depending on the angle from which it is seen. The lenticular technique was executed in a large scale in "Complex Vision," a 30 ft (9.1 m) square that was mounted on the Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
Agam held a retrospective exhibition in Paris at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in 1972, as well as the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1980. His works are included in numerous museum exhibits, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Warren Forma's two twentieth century documentary films include Agam (1967) and Agam (1980).
The Jan Amos Comenius Medal was given by UNESCO in 1996 for the "Agam Method" for early childhood visual education.
For the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem, he designed and made the champion's trophy.
Agam created Peaceful Communication with the World in 2009, aged 81, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is made up of nine 10 million hexagonal pillars mounted in a rhomboid structure. The pillars' sides are painted in a variety of styles and colors.
The Hanukkah Menorah at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in New York City, sponsored by the Lubavitch Youth Organization, is one of Agam's most notable creations. The 32-foot-high, gold-colored, 4,000-pound steel wall structure has been named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's biggest Hanukkah menorah.
Joseph Maimon, Agam's president, presented Faith-Vision Pray to Pope Francis in May 2014. The piece contained key symbols of both Jewish and Christian faiths.
Agam's work is one of the highest-priced works by an Israeli artist. "This does not surprise me... my prices will rise in keeping with the art world's history." In a Sotheby's New York auction in November 2009, when his 4 Themes Contrepoint was sold for $326,500.
In 2018, the Yaacov Agam Museum of Art (YAMA) opened in Rishon LeZion, Israel, in the artist's hometown. It is "the only museum in the world that is devoted to art in motion," Agam told the Jerusalem Post.