Takis
London Gallery Weekend 2021preview
Best shows for... art history nerds
Tear yourself away from museums and libraries for one weekend to catch a rare revival of Jean Dubuffet’s “living painting” performance and Takis’s first European show since his death in 2019
Obituariesnews
Greek sculptor Panayiotis Vassilakis, known as Takis, has died at 93
The self-taught artist explored magnetic field energy in his kinetic works, admired by Duchamp and the American Beat poets
Exhibitionspreview
Electromagnetic man: Tate Modern attracts largest UK exhibition of Takis
The experimental Greek artist will show works from the 1950s to the early 2000s, including a rarely seen kinetic pendulum sculpture