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This is a framed serigraph from the Israeli sculptor and experimental optical artist Yaacov Agam (1930 - ). This piece showcases Yaacov Agam's ability to transform common shapes into masterful works of art. This piece was created circa 1979 and is from an edition of 180.

This untitled serigraph showcases Yaacov Agam's work and talents with the abstract, optical art kinetic art (art with movement). Agam was born in Rishon LeZion, Israel to a religious family and trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, before moving to Zurich and then to Paris where he settled. His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Graven in 1953, and in 1955 he established himself as one of the leading pioneers of kinetic art at the Le Mouvement at the Galerie Denise Rene alongside such artists as Jesus Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Pol Bury, Alexander Calder, and Jean Tinguely. A passionate experimenter, Agam deals with such problems as the 4th dimension, simultaneity and time in the visual, plastic arts, and has extended his experiments to application in the fields of literature, music and art theory.