Yaakov Agam , nee. Yaakov Gipshtein (Hebrew יגם אגם , born May 11, 1928 Rishon Lezion , Palestine , now Israel ) is a contemporary Israeli artist, one of the creators of kinetic art .
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Content
- 1 Life and work
- 2 Awards
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Gallery
Life and work
J. Gipstein was born in British Palestine in the family of a rabbi and a Kabbalist, a deeply religious person. In 1946-1949 he studied art at the Bezalel School of Art under the direction of Mordecai Ardon . Continues his education at the Johannes Itten School of Applied Arts in Zurich - as does M. Ardon, a follower of the German Constructivist Bauhaus school. During this period, J. Agam was influenced by the aesthetic and mathematical theory of art developed by Max Bill . In 1951, the artist came to Paris and still lives there. He has a daughter and two sons, one of which is photographer Ron Agam [4] . In Paris, J. Agam is engaged in the Workshop of Abstract Art (Atelier d'art abstrait) and the Academy de la Grand Chaumiere . In 1953, his first solo exhibition was held in the Paris gallery Craven. In 1955, Y. Agam took part in the first international exhibition of kinetic art at the Denis René Gallery in Paris. In 1964, he exhibited at the international exhibition of contemporary art documenta III in Kassel.
Since the beginning of the 1950s, Y. Agam has shown interest in various kinetic and mechanical elements and the possibility of their use in creating works of art. So there were his works of sound and tangible paintings that change from touch, as well as works in which light, sound and water elements are connected (for example, the sound fountain La Defense , in Paris, 1976). The artist often uses acrylic paints in his works, opening up great opportunities for the transfer of lighting effects and color transparency.
The artist is in constant search of new forms for artistic expression, linking art and technology, shape and color. He creates in the style of op-art embossed, perforated, fan-shaped canvases, allowing the observer to discover something new constantly in these works, to become for himself the “pioneer” of the work of art.
Rewards
- 1963 Award for Creative Search in Art at the Biennale in São Paulo
- 1970 First Prize at the Cagnes-sur-Mer International Painting Festival
Notes
- ↑ https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/626
- ↑ Yaakov Agam
- ↑ Yaacov Agam - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ Bruce J. Evensen. Hewitt, Don (December 14, 1922–19 August 2009) . - Oxford University Press, 2015-04. - (American National Biography Online).
Literature
- Yaacov Agam: Texte des Künstlers . Übersetzt von Hans G. Schürmann. Griffon, Neuchatel 1962. (with Transformes musicales record.)
- Yaacov Agam: Bilder und Skulpturen. Katalog. Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf 1973.
- Yaacow Agam und Bernard Mandelbaum: Art and Judaism. A Conversation Between Yaacov Agam and Bernard Mandelbaum. BLD, New York oJ
- Homage to Yaacov Agam . Leon Amiel Publishers, New York 1981 ISBN 0-8148-0751-8
- Galérie Denise René: Mes anneés 50. Galérie Denise René, Paris 1988.
- Hans Mayer (ed.): Vom Konstruktivismus zur Kinetik 1917 bis 1967. Selbstverlag u. Galerie Denise René, Krefeld 1967.
- Günter Metken: Agam. Kunst heute Bd. 23, Hatje, Stuttgart 1977.