Our Fine Print Limited Editions Are Unique And So Are Our Prices! Contact us either by phone (888-484-1850) and/or by e-mail (link to: sales@zimmermanfineart.com ) for current pricing and availability. Zimmerman Editions has been privileged to be Yaacov Agam’s fine art printer and publisher for several decades.

Yaacov Agam’s creations have been in great demand and his signed limited edition serigraphs, sculptures, and originals now can be found in many private collections. Agam's signature artform is the Polymorph and he is the master of this technique. Several of his most representative and sought after fine art pieces include:

Rainbow Rhythm - Polymorphic wall sculpture
Fascination
Image Aquatic - Prismagraphic wall sculptures
Star of Love - compact table sculpture
Environmental Space
Homage to Mondrian - serigraphs on mirrors.

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Yaacov Agam Artist Available Polymorphic Wall Sculptures

Yaacov Agam was born in Israel in 1928, the son of a rabbi.  His father was a deeply devout individual completely immersed in studies of Jewish mysticism and the Kabalah.  This intense spiritualism permeated Agam’s world as a child and resonates in his work today.  Agam first broke on the art scene in Paris in 1953 with a one man show which challenged the way viewers “look” at art.  His art can exist only in its relationship to the viewer, no longer a static form to be hung and contemplated from afar.  Agam’s artwork is meant to be touched, moved, and manipulated by the viewer, earning him the honor of being the “Father of Kinetic Art”.

Agam studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and in Switzerland at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and the Zurich University.  He arrived in Paris in 1951 and he became involved with ideas of abstract art and color harmony, as well as the fourth dimension of time in art.  Agam held his first very successful one man exhibition in 1953.  This exhibition consisted of totally kinetic, movable and transformable paintings and became the first one-man show in art history exclusively devoted to kinetic art.  He eventually settled in Paris, which remains his primary residence today. 

Agam continues to be a passionate experimenter dealing not only with the 4th dimension of time in the visual arts, but also its application in the fields of literature, music, and art theory.  His works express a concept that break with the established way of expressing reality in a limited, static way.  In his works, he strives to demonstrate the principle of reality as a continuous “becoming” rather than static “graven image”.  His paintings “Double Metamorphosis 11” in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and “Transparent Rhythms 11” in the Hirshhorn Museum of Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institutes in Washington, DC provide excellent examples of this “polymorphic” visual presentation. 

At the request of President Georges Pompidou, Agam created an entire Salon for the Elysee Palace in Paris in 1972.  The Salon became the setting for a kinetic ceiling, moving transparent colored doors and a kinetic carpet on which he placed a sculpture. Agam's works have been exhibited in every major modern art museum in the world and he has had one-man shows at many, including the Guggenheim in New York, Palm Spring Desert Museum in California, Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico, National Museum of Art in Cape Town, South Africa, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

His monumental creations grace numerous public places and institutions worldwide including the fire-water fountain at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, the Plaza outside of the Julliard School of Music at the Lincoln Center in New York City, a Holocaust Memorial at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and many other privately commissioned works in squares, building facades, and fountains all over the world.  Agam has also designed a variety of original Torah arks and stained glass windows for synagogue sanctuaries, as well as religious items such as mezuzot and tallitot.

Agam has also been successful in developing effective methods of visual teaching for children utilizing creativity and a visual alphabet as a mother tongue.  His methods have been implemented in pre-schools and kindergartens in Israel and South America.  Yaacov Agam has been honored with his images upon postage stamps issued in several countries.  Zimmerman Editions has been privileged to be Agam’s fine art printer and publisher for several decades.

Agam's signature artform is the Polymorph and he is the master of this technique: a single image presented in triangular relief revealing many different images dependent on the position of the viewer, as the viewer moves and shifts position in order to see the artwork in its entirety. Other unique variations of his changing-image artforms are Agam's Prismagraph, Multigraph, Agamograph and mirrored limited edition wall sculptures.

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Our Fine Print Limited Editions Are Unique And So Are Our Prices! Contact us either by phone (888-484-1850) and/or by e-mail (link to: sales@zimmermanfineart.com ) for current pricing and availability