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The internationally acclaimed artist Yaacov Agam (b. Yaacov Gipstein) was born the son of a rabbi in Rishon LeZion, Eretz Israel. He is one of the pioneers of the kinetic movement in art as well as its most outstanding contemporary representative. Agam trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and in Switzerland at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and Zurich University. He relocated to Paris during the 1950s.

Agam experiments passionately with the 4th dimension, simultaneity and time in the visual, plastic arts, with viewer participation and frequent use of light and sound. Agam’s creations are iconic landmarks in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. In 1996, Agam was awarded UNESCO’s Comenius Medal for the Agam Method, which focuses on stimulating visual talents in young children as a means to improve over-all cognitive development. In All Directions, nine upright stainless steel limbs move freely on their axis, anchored on a rectangular base.

Gift of Tzafira and Efraim Ilin (1986) Directions