Unpublished text with an original silkscreen print signed by the artist.
Limited edition of 290 signed copies.
Takis (born 1925 in Athens, lives and works in Paris) set about exploring magnetic field energy in his work. Working in proximity with his contemporaries of the
New Realism movement, he integrated light and
music in combination with the use of magnets into his
sculptural practice. A tireless experimenter and “intuitive savant”, Takis has continuously sought to capture cosmic energy by combining
art and science. As a contemporary plastician, his work is grounded in a sculptural tradition that spans archaic
Greek sculpture and
Giacometti on the one hand and the rejects of technology on the other. Fascinated by the “scientific magic” at the core of inventions (he even registered a number of industrial patents), Takis is also a science
philosopher, regularly drawing inspiration from the great ancestors of pre-Socratic philosophy, Hippocratic medicine, and Ancient
Egypt.