Takis: A Magnetic Sculptor Back in the Limelight
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The White Cube gallery is devoting its first exhibition in France for ten years to the Greek artist, who died in 2019. A chance to rediscover a pioneering corpus at the intersection of science and metaphysics. Takis (1925-2019), Signal, 1954, painted iron, Plexiglas and bronze, 103.5 x 29.7 x 25.3 cm/40.6 x 11.4 x 9.8 in. One of the works featured in the exhibition at the White Cube gallery, Paris.© TAKIS FOUNDATION / ADAGP, PARIS AND DACS, LONDON, 2024PHOTO © WHITE CUBE (THEO CHRISTELIS) Duchamp dubbed him “the happy ploughman of magnetic fields”. It was an apt sobriquet for Panayótis Vassilákis, aka Takis, who not
