Israeli Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

This is a new work by Mattia Biagi in a glass. The sculptural lamp can be used as a table lamp or hang.

Art Yaacov Agam Signed and numbered 25/27 from the Meissner Galerie in Hamburg Measurements: H 33 x W 23 x D 4 cm. Agam's first solo exhibition was at the ...

Stain glass butterfly by a New York City artist named Gilly. I knew Gilly back in the 1970s and opened a store very briefly in the village calle...

Stain glass dragon fly by a New York City artist named Gilly. I knew Gilly back in the 1970s and he opened a store very briefly in the village called Gil...

Yaacov Agam 1970s Image Magic art sculpture. Very rare beautiful signed and numbered 71/99 Art work by Yaacov Agam. Measurements: H 63.5 x D 11 x W 11 cm. Eu...

Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928-) Title: Space Divider Medium: Polished metal kinetic sculpture Edition: 19/25 Rotates at top Signed on side of piece - Agam on the underside is the number. On stand 47” tall 7” x 7” Piece only 7” wide by 9” by 2 7/8” wide normal tarnish and wear It comes with the magazine cover of the artist and the custom made Lucite base. Artist Biography from the Guggenheim Yaacov Agam B. 1928, RISHON-LE-ZION, PALESTINE Yaacov Agam was born in Rishon-le-Zion, Palestine (now Israel), in 1928, the son of a rabbi and kabbalist, Yehoshua Gibstein. He studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem under Mordecai Ardon in 1946, moved to Zurich and then Paris, and studied at the Atelier d'art abstrait and at the Académie de la grande chaumière. While in Zurich, he met and was influenced by artist and teacher Johannes Itten, who was propagating Bauhaus ideas; he also found inspiration in Vasily Kandinsky's defense of abstraction, ber das Geistige in der Kunst. Insbesondere in der Malerei (On the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular, 1911). His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Craven in Paris in 1953, entitled Peintures en Mouvement (Paintings in movement), where he showed two series of early work. In one, grids of painted strips that incorporated different designs on opposite sides created images that merged and changed as spectators shifted their viewing position (a type of lenticular print that eventually became known as an Agamograph). In the other, his Transformable Pictures (Images transformables, 1953–61), viewers could manually activate works and rearrange their visual elements. While not the first Optical-Kinetic artist, Agam encouraged spectator participation at a time when such strategies were rare. He exhibited, along with other pioneers of Kinetic art including Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely, at the Le mouvement (Movement) exhibition at the Galerie Denise René in 1955. He continued to produce abstract, Kinetic work that incorporated light, sound, and viewer participation. He also produced many public commissions, including a moving salon environment at the Elysée Palace in Paris in 1972. In the space, walls were covered with lenticular imagery; transparent doors were included; and a sculpture was placed on a Kinetic carpet. In all, the environment shifted according to the viewer's position. In 1979, Agam was asked to make a work of art to commemorate the peacemaking efforts between Anwar el-Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin...

An iron meteorite fell on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, in southeastern Russia, in 1947. Though large iron meteorite falls had been witnessed previously and fragments recovered, never ...

Beautiful pair of nude man and woman sculptures in original patinated bronze by listed Israeli artist Itzik Ben Shalom, circa 1982. The set can be situated in many different position...

One of a kind copper brass and glass arm chair sculpture. This rare beauty which could easily fit in in the Game of Thrones, was made by Cor de Ree in the N...

Monumental one of a kind Brutalist wall sculpture in steel and red slag glass designed by Jules De Waele for Pia Manu Studio. Executed in the 1970s for a pri...

Patinated brass gazelle / antelope sculpture with cast glass horns in the manner of Karl Springer.

Man and woman embraced patinated bronze sculpture on a black wood base in by listed Israeli artist Itzik Ben Shalom, circa 1980s. The piece is in good vintage condition with some spo...