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[[Image:Complex | [[Image:Complex vision 2008.jpg|right|thumb|275px|"Complex Vision" in 2008]] | ||
'''Complex Vision''' is a large outdoor op-art installation at the [[Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital]] on [[University Boulevard]]. The work, 30 feet x 30 feet, was created by artist [[Yaacov Agam]] in [[1969]] for the site. The piece is painted 138 aluminum strips that are mounted in an accordion-fold arrangement so that the composition and colors change as the viewer passes by. | '''Complex Vision''' is a large outdoor op-art installation at the [[Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital]] on [[University Boulevard]]. The work, 30 feet x 30 feet, was created by artist [[Yaacov Agam]] in [[1969]] for the site. The piece is painted 138 aluminum strips that are mounted in an accordion-fold arrangement so that the composition and colors change as the viewer passes by. | ||
Revision as of 13:48, 12 April 2008
Complex Vision is a large outdoor op-art installation at the Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital on University Boulevard. The work, 30 feet x 30 feet, was created by artist Yaacov Agam in 1969 for the site. The piece is painted 138 aluminum strips that are mounted in an accordion-fold arrangement so that the composition and colors change as the viewer passes by.
Donors for the work included Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Engel (in memory of their parents), Carl Jernigan and William Hulsey. Hulsey and Jernigan, along with fellow trustee Alston Callahan selected the artist and commissioned the work.
External links
- Agam Mural at UAB Health System.
- Complex Vision at Birminghamart.org
- Biography of Agam at the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs