Yaacov Agam has left an indelible imprint on the course of history in the 20th century with his creations of kinetic and constantly changing art. The pioneer of the kinetic art movement, Agam is wholly dedicated to art in movement by integrating the fourth dimension of time as a factor in his art. His interactive works have impressed audiences of various nationalities, ages, and walks of life. His monumental sculptures and fountains are installed all over the world.
Born to an Orthodox Jewish family, Agam studied st the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and then in Zurich, Switzerland. He attended classes with Johannes I tten wt the Kunstgeverbeschule and also with Prof. Siegfried Giedion at the Universoty there. He is also very active in the field of visual education and has written a series of books on visual language for use in schools.
Agam has expanded the graphic arts beyond the limit of static images. Agamographs, named after its creator, are composition in which images change constantly. The images appear and disappear; the viewer never sees the whole picture at one time. With the creation of the Agamograph, Agam conveys the dimension of time, the fourth dimension. Agam has advanced, renewed, revolutionized and expanded the graphic art form. The Agamograph enables the viewer to interact, explore and stretch his own view in the artwork. |
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"My endeavor has been to create a kind or visual graphic art, existing not only in space, but in time, one in which the form develops and evolves, thus procuring an unforeseeable infinity of plastic situations flowing out of one another."
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