It is the first morning of the reconfinement.
“I am by the sea, I am looking towards France, in Tel Aviv.
So you are not allowed to go out but you are allowed to speak very far! ”
, laughs Yaacov Agam, 92 years old.
Israeli artist before the birth of Israel: he was born in Rishon LeZion on May 11, 1928, under the surname Yaacov Gibstein.
The familiarity with this warm and mischievous man is immediate and very friendly.
A precursor of kinetic art, he left his biblical name to the “Salon Agam”, an official commission from President Georges Pompidou in 1971 to fit out the anteroom of the private apartments of the Élysée Palace (1972-1974).
Called “Salon de l'Elysée” when it was designed, Agam's layout is above all a pictorial work that its sponsor did not see completed, a total work of art today presented in the Centre's collections. Pompidou.
The front wall has 900 shades of color.
Each color is modulated and is gradually transformed,
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