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:
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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 |