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Yaacov Agam
"I went to the research of the first gesture of the first expression of humanity ..."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Yaacov Agam was born in 1928 in the future Israel. He settles in Paris in 1951 but does not speak French, knows anybody, has no place to be introduced in. He earns his living with difficulties until he meets great painters like Chagall or Leger.
Agam is early interested in the introduction of time and movement into the art. In 1953, he gets his first exhibition at Craven’s gallery. Noticed, he is invited to present his work among other artists at “the movement” exhibition (Victor Vasarely, etc), organized in 1955 by the Gallery Denise Rene (the artist still exhibits in this gallery today ). It is his true departure with the recognition of his art.
Agam’s kinetic art precipitates painting in the movement. Agam names “the fourth dimension” the new concept which introduces time and the movement into art, new dimension which he wants spiritual and conceptual. It is defined in the real time, between those who look and optical or kinetic handling. His meeting with Brancusi is very important. He decides not to “set arbitrarily” the contents of his canvases, and he seeks now unceasingly to present new visual spaces, “mobility in the immobility”. All his artistic life long, Agam is exposed in France and abroad, in galleries as well as in the most prestigious museums. The “Salon Agam” from 1974 (“the anteroom of President Pompidou’s private apartments”) registered the artist in a kind of psychedelic 70’s history of the art.
Although he is excluded a little from the contemporary art coterie, his work evolves constantly; composed of numerous practices (painting, work graphic, architecture, theatre, cinema, sculpture, numerical, etc) and is internationally recognized.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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To read about the artist :
- « Agam, Tapigraphie & Oeil cosmique », Pierre Descargues, Ed. Artcurial, 1962
- « Agam », Michel Ragon, in revue Cimaise n°108-109, 1972
- « 54 mots clés pour une lecture polyphonique d'Agam », M. Ragon, Ed. G. Fall, 19
- « Yaacov Agam », Gunter Metken, Ed. De Messine, 1978
- « Hommage à Agam », Revue XX° siècle n°56, Ed. L. Amiel, Paris, 1980
- « Agam », Frank Popper, Ed. Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1983
- « Art and Judaism », B. Mandelbaum, Ed. Keter, Jerusalem, 1985
- « The Agam Haggadah », Gefen Publishing, Jerusalem, 1993
- « Agam - Beyond the visible », Sayako Aragaki, Gefen Publishing House, 1997
- « Agam, le salon de l'Elysée », Jean-Paul Ameline, cat., Ed. Centre G. Pompidou, 2008
To read from the artist :
- « Yaacov Agam », Ed. du Griffon, Neuchâtel (Suisse), 1962
- « Homage to Yaacov Agam » , Y. Agam, Ed.Leon Amiel, 1981
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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