“The Agam Menorah” is an asymmetrically designed dynamic sculpture composed of movable branches extending from a central rod. 

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Israeli born Yaacov Agam, first studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, and later continued his education in European institutions including the Atelier d’art Abstrait in Zurich. Agam’s style was shaped by contemporary influences such as Bauhaus ideas propagated by Johannes Itten, and abstract representations such as those seen in works by Vasily Kandinsky.​

 

The object is composed of 24 karat gold-plated brass. Seventeen identically sized joint-like bearings (thirty-five in total) are fitted over the central metal rod from each end. The menorah’s branches extend from either side of the central joint, forming two mirroring sets of concentric arcs that increase in width from the central point. Additionally, these bearings allow the branches to swivel and move independently in a complete circle around the center vertical axis.

 

​Several of the Menorah’s branches had been bent and deformed by an accidental fall. This structural damage prevented the object’s independent elements from moving, and the sculpture could not stand up independently. 

Treatment corrected the deformation by heating the bent arms with hot air and gently bending back them back to shape with specialized tools.