A dynamic Kinetic Art 24K gold-plated Menorah sculpture composed of movable branches titled "The Agam Menorah" by the Father of Kinetic Art Yaacov Agam. Etched signature with an annotation of 477/900 on bottom branch. Produced by Safari Gallery and published by K.D.C. Art Publications Ltd., Jerusalem in 1989. Per the literature that accompanies the sculpture, "Like all the works of Agam, this Menorah is always becoming. It can be modified infinitely, never losing its harmony of form, its permanent balance. With our own hands, we can participate in the altering perception of the artist and the object he puts before us. When we reach out to touch, bend, shape the connected parts, we begin our own act of creating and re-creation, just as we renew ourselves through an unlimited variety of experience." From a private collection. Dimensions: 8.5"h x 6.75"w. In very good vintage condition. Op art pioneer Yaacov Agam's abstract artworks--which range from painting, sculpture, drawing, and ceramics, to stained glass and etching--typically incorporate light, sound, or viewer participation. The son of an orthodox rabbi, Agam first trained as an artist in Jerusalem, going on to combine formalist art with kabbalistic mysticism, and he is credited with introducing geometric abstraction to Israeli art. Agam's best known series of works, comprised of painted strips that appear to shift and oscillate as viewers alter their points of view, would become known as Agamographs. He has also produced public commissions, including the world's largest menorah, installed in New York City, and Star of Peace for Ben-Gurion university that fused the five-pointed star of Islam with the six-pointed Star of David. Agam met and was influenced by the Bauhaus artist and teacher Johannes Itten in Zurich, and also cites Wassily Kandinsky's abstraction as an influence on his practice.

8.5 x 6.75 in