APPROACHES - In The Words Of . . . .
From: Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Glanze [English Translation]. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. New York: Prentice-Hall Editions. 1988.
"What is art? In my opinion, it musts rival God." Yaacov Agam is the ambitioius, forty-four-year-old son of a rabbi. A retrospective of his works at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris covers almost twenty years of activity, from the first works to his current Metamorphoses. Since his arrival in Paris in 1951, Agam has continually used the most modern artistic techniques. There is, for example, his recent oil on aluminum entitled Dual Metamorphosis III, completed in three years. The work seems to change, depending where one stands in relation to it. These "plastic themes," as the artist calls the seeming movements, present an ever-changing view to the spectator, who thus participates in the artistic creation.
[An Excerpt From: Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Glanze [English Translation]. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. New York: Prentice-Hall Editions. 1988. p. 691]
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