RON AGAM LAURENCE JENKELL - WITH SELECTED WORKS BY

RON AGAM
   With selected works by

Laurence Jenkell

RON AGAM
          Ron Agam was born in Paris in 1958 and was educated in Paris, Rehovot (Israel) and New York. He was drawn
          to the camera as a child, beginning at age six when he began shooting stills of the works of his father, Israeli artist
          Yaacov Agam. As a child, he remembers spending countless hours in his father studio in Paris, painting, drawing
          and watching. ‘‘I can remember the importance of the Art in my life , as I constantly visited museum, artist studios
          and galleries with my dad from the age of four.’’ This priceless connection to the Art community has played a major
          role in Ron Agam’s education as an artist.

          For many years, Ron was primarily known for his photography: portraits, still life, landscape. His photographs have
          appeared in numerous media outlets around the world, from Time Magazine to MTV. He received great acclaim
          for his exhibitions in the mid-1990s of a series of photographs taken at the Western Wall and the Ultra-Orthodox
          conclave of Meah Shearim in Jerusalem. In late 2001, he created a series based on his photographic work at
          Ground Zero on September 11, which was included in a travelling group exhibition responsible for raising money
          for the victims of 9/11. In 2008, he completed 2 years photographing flowers and opened his celebrated exhibi-
          tion, «In full bloom» at the Tyler Rollins gallery in NYC.

          In 2011, Ron Agam began a new career as a painter influenced by the works of Joseph Albers, Malevich, El
          Lissitzky and other Russian Constructivists painters of the past century. He presently integrates his work with
          technology and developing his artistic creativity towards what can be called ‘‘Neo-Kineticism’’.

          ‘‘It took me 52 years to understand who I am, I am a painter and will die as one...’’

          Ron Agam’s perception is relied on a cosmic vision of our existence where the element of space and time are
          constantly in motion. The ever-changing world where reality is only a small part of the total human experience is
          the artist’s effort to convey it into his artworks. Ron Agam claims that to be a pioneer in any form of expression is
          always a fascinating challenge. Consequently, technology, mostly the digital world where pixels and shapes are
          often the link between the process and the creation, are adopted by the artist in order to create his 3-Dimensional
          Kinetics. The translation of a visual reality into dimensions never seen before in a printed work is an art form that
          is considered to be one of the artist’s unique contributions.

Wedding Squares - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

Dimensional Time - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm   Galactic Space in Movement - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

Interelated Space #2 - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

                                     Dynamic Infinity - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

Yellow Star - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm   Taurus - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

Psychedelic Fantasy - Mixed media, unique piece - 213,5 x 213,5 x 10 cm

                    Untitled (Our Beautiful Planet) - Mixed media, unique piece - 213,5 x 213,5 x 10 cm

Homage to the Square - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

Blue Pyramid - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm   Relativity in Time - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

Virgo - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm   Genesis - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

Gateway - Lenticular 3D, edition of 3 + 2 AP - 114 x 114 cm

Laurence
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          Born in Bourges, France, in 1965, Laurence Jenkell is renowned internationally for her candy sculptures. She
          studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cannes, painting composites, landscapes and portraits. Later, freed from
          the academic life, Jenkell found inspiration in fashion and industrial design, successfully integrating contemporary
          consumerism and industrial images and patterns into her work.

          Her candy sculptures, named “Bonbons wrapping” after the distortion the medium undergoes in her hands,
          remind us of the work of American pop artist Claes Oldenburg (1929-).

          As a result of her studying of colour for so many years, Jenkell now masters a large range of bright, splendid and
          acidulous shades. Her work is twisted, lined and smoothly trimmed: transforming itself into new textures and
          forms.

          Her work has been purchased by private collectors in France and across Europe and is on display at the Coca-
          Cola Museum, Atlanta, USA and the Beijing Sunshine Museum in China. Additionally, her works have also been
          exhibited in public and private exhibitions all over the world. In 2011, she exhibited a collection of candy sculptures
          representing country flags in Cannes on the occasion of the G20 Summit.

Bonbon Croissant de Lune - Plexiglas, unique piece - 80 cm

Bonbon Irisé                                Bonbon Envie de Toi
Plexiglas, unique piece - 40 cm   Plexiglas, unique piece - 80 cm

Bonbon Solstice d’Été - Plexiglas, unique piece - 80 cm

Bonbon Nioulargue - Plexiglas, unique piece - 80 cm

Bonbon Feu Follet - Plexiglas, unique piece - 80 cm

Tableau Fusée au Firmament - Plexiglas, unique piece - 45 x 32 cm

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