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Yaacov Agam
Yaacov Agam (born Yaacov Gipstein on May 11, 1928)
is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his
contributions to optical and kinetic art. Born in Rishon LeZion,
Palestine to a religious family, Agam trained at the Bezalel Academy
of Art and Design in Jerusalem, before moving to Zürich and
then to Paris, where he settled. His first solo exhibition was at
the Galerie Graven in 1953, and in 1955 he established himself as
one of the leading pioneers of kinetic art at the Le Mouvement exhibition
at the Galerie Denise René, alongside such artists as Pol
Bury, Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely.
Agam's work is usually abstract, with movement,
viewer participation and frequent use of light and sound. His best
known pieces include "Double Metamorphosis II" (1965),
"Visual Music Orchestration" (1989) and fountains at the
La Défense district in Paris (1975) and in Dizengoff Square
in Tel Aviv (1986). He is also known for a type of print known as
an Agamograph, which uses lenticular printing to present radically
different images, depending on the angle from which it is viewed.
In 1996 Agam was awarded the Jan Amos Comenius
Medal by UNESCO for the "Agam Method" for visual education
of young children.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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