“Three Movement(s) (II)”
17.5″ h x 33″ w, serigraph artist’s proof (signed in plate) (c. 1971)
I feel like if you’re a Jewish family in the 1990s and you didn’t have a work by famed Israeli kinetic art specialist Yaacov Agam in your house, someone would come and forcibly convert you to Presbyterianism. This was another 1980s auction purchase by my father, which appears (though again, I’m guessing a bit here) to be an Artist’s Proof of “Three Movements”. If you’re wondering about all the parentheses in the title, it’s because I’ve seen this piece rendered with and without the “s”, and with and without the “II”.
While more geometric than some of the other abstract pieces I own, it plays with white space beautifully while still catching the eye with pops of color. It is reminiscent of old computer printing and 8-bit art–one can almost imagine it as a grouping of levels in an early platformer video game, yet somehow stripped down to an even more basic essence.
David Schraub 