Yaacov Agam is an Israeli plastics technician born with Rishon LeZion (Israel) in 1928, established in France starting from 1950, figure of the Kinetic art. The work of Agam is characterized by a movement induced by the random displacement from the point of view of the spectator.

Biography

Resulting from a practicing Jewish family, wire of Rabbi, Yaacov Agam is formed initially with Jerusalem with the Academy of art Bezalel (1946 - 1948) which directs Mordecai Ardon, raises of the Bauhaus to Weimar under the name of max Bronstein. This one sends it in 1949 to Zurich (Suisse) where he attends other artists resulting from Bauhaus: it follows the courses of Johannes Itten to the Kunstgewerbeschule and those of Sigfried Giedion on architecture to the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule , and becomes acquainted with max Bill, while being registered at the university to follow there courses of history of art and musical composition. This lesson enables him to look further into the theory of the color and the principles of the Constructivisme. In parallel, he works as graphic designer in advertizing agencies.

On the way of the the United States, where it leaves on the recommendation Giedion to follow off the courses of the Illinois Institute Technology , Agam is fixed at Paris in November 1951. It is in this year that it starts to be interested in the Kinetic art. It is registered with the workshop of abstract art which Jean Dewasne animates and becomes acquainted with Fernand Leger and of Auguste Herbin.

It profits in 1953 from its first personal exposure, transformable Tableaux , in which it poses the bases of a work in which the reference to the Judaïsme - from the philosophical point of view more than nun - is constantly subjacent. It is essential on the first international exhibition kinetic art to the gallery Denise Rene, in Paris, in 1955. It is then André Breton which chooses the titles of its works.

Agam is a very great success until the beginning of the Années 1970. It receives many orders of monumental works carried out in situ which moves away it from the museums.

Works of Agam

Since 1974, works of Agam count paintings as well as sculptures, monuments, architectures, or vidéos, medium which it is one of the first to be used in France.

With the difference of works of the kinetic artists whose movement is generated, generally, by variable components of work, those of Agam obtain their effect by displacement of the spectator compared to work. The artist thus intends to give to the public a new role and to introduce into his work the concept of unpredictability which characterizes, according to him, the fourth dimension.

Its tables are frequently built starting from triangular prisms whose face is fixed on the plane surface of the fabric and of which the two others are painted geometrical reasons which produce different effects visual according to the angle under which these elements are seen.

Agam is also impassioned for the relationship between form, color and its, and likes to play with technology, as its Tourne-disque with four arms (1962) or its Sculpteaufeu (1970), which produces at the same time a flame and a jet of water and which is not without pointing out the proximity of the artist with the surrealist .

Principal works

and other

Materials of works

  • painting
  • metal structures in form of range
  • stainless steel with the variable forms
  • the sound
  • the light
  • water
  • time

Time is regarded by Agam as a genuine material of work. It is the concept of the “fourth dimension”: work is perceived in space compared to the field of view temporal of the spectator.

Principal temporary exhibitions

References

External bonds

  • the personal testimony of Agam

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