Yaacov Agam has been captivating the art world since his first one-man show in Paris in 1953. Agam's profound influence and revolutionary contribution to kinetic art remains much like his work - unrestrained by movement, time or possibility. - Read More

pioneer of optic and kinetic art.

FOR TWENTY YEARS, I TRIED, AND FINALLY I UNDERSTOOD, THE IMAGE MUST BE SOMETHING THAT BECOMES, NOT SOMETHING THAT IS. WHERE IS TRUTH, WHERE IS THE TRUE ORDER? THE ONLY TRUTH IS THE TRUTH OF STATES OF BEING, AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME WHICH DESTROYS ITSELF.

The most important invention for humanity is art.

A world-renowned kinetic artist, Yaacov Agam pioneered a new form of art that stresses change and movement. He studied under the Bauhaus color-theoretician, Johannes Itten, and then rejected traditional static concepts of painting and sculpture. He has enjoyed great public success since his first one-person show in Paris in 1953, and has become one of the most influential artists of modern times.

INFINITY OF POSSIBILITIES

"I am not an abstract artist, I want to reveal the invisible more than the visible. Abstract art shows a situation on a canvas. I show a state of being which does not exist, the imperceptible absence than a presence. The infinity of possibilities, opposing the chance of a presence, a possibility."

My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.