Takis

Takis

Takis (Panayotis Vassilakis) was born in Athens in 1925.

He participated to the resistance movement during German occupation in Greece and to the Greek Civil War that followed, while he was practising painting and sculpture. He left Greece in 1954 to move to Paris and since then he in living and working both in Paris and in Athens.

Solo Exhibitions:

1955

Figures in Plaster and Iron, Hanover Gallery, London

1955

Figures in Iron and Signals, Galerie Furstenberg, Paris

1958

Signals, Hanover Gallery, London

1959

Présentation de trois sculptures magnétiques et de Antigravité, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris

1959

Telemagnétique de Takis, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris

1960

Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York

1960

L'impossible: un homme dans l'espace, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris

1961

Takis: Telemagnetic Sculptures, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York

1962

Signals and Telesculptures, Galerie Schwarz, Milan

1963

Telesculptures, Telephota, Telemagnets, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York

1964

Dix ans de sculpture, 1954-1964, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris

1964

Takis' magnetic Exhibition, Inauguration de Signals, New Showrooms, London

1964

Takis, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Geneva

1966

Les magnétrons de Takis, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris

1966

Takis, Hanover Gallery, London

1966

Magnetic Sculptures and the white Signals, Indica Gallery, London

1967

Takis' magnetic Sculpture, Howard Wise Gallery, New York

1967

Takis, Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam

1967

Takis, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris

1967

Takis, Éditions limitées et illimitées, Galerie Schwarz, Milan

1967

Takis, Editions Signals limitées et illimitées, Arts Lab, London

1967

Takis' Signals unlimited, Widcombe Manor, Bath.

1967

Takis Editionen, Galerie Reckermann, Cologne

1969

Howard Wise Gallery, New York

1969

Retrospective, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T. Cambridge/Mass

1969

Takis, Städtisches Museum Schloß, Leverkusen

1971

Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris

1971

Multiples de Takis, Galerie Bama, Paris

1972

Lignes parallèles, Galerie Iolas, Milan

1972

Takis, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris

1972

Takis, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels

1974

Takis' musikalische Raume, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover

1974

Takis, Galerie Iolas-Zoumboulakis, Athens

1974

Takis Musicales, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels

1976

Sculptures érotiques, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris

1977

Takis : Hydromagnétique, Galerie Artcurial, Paris

1977

Takis Editions, New Smith Callery, Brussels

1977

Takis: sculptures 1955-1965, Galerie Trito Mati, Athenes

1978

Takis: Espace musical, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC 2, Paris

1979

Takis Klangraum Gestaltung, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

1979

Takis, Galerie Reckermann, Cologne

1979

Takis, Musée de la Ville de Calais, Calais

1981

Trois totems - Espace musical, Centre George Pompidou, Paris

1981

Takis, Galerie Maeght, Paris

1993

Retrospective, Gallerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

1995

Retrospective, inaugural exhibit of "Ergostasio" (Fine Arts School of Athens' exhibition hall), Athens


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