biografia di Vassilakis TAKIS (1925-2019)

Personal data


Birth : 10/29/1925 - Athens, Greece
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Greece

Address

Paris, France

Professional data


Work and Life

1954:Leaves Greece and travels throughout Europe and the USA
Lives and works between Paris, France and Athens, Greece

Work


Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume : Installation - Light installation
Audiovisual-Multimedia : Sound installation

Subject

optic effects
space/environment
light
movement

Artistic periods

1960 : Creates telematics sculptures
1958 : Experiments with magnetic field and electromagnetism
1957 : Experiments with pyrotechny
1955 : Works on cinetic art

Movements and styles

Op Art

Works

Cadran
Date of creation : 1972
Medium : Installation
Size : 108 x 125 x 11 cm
 
Signals
Medium : Light installation
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

1993

ASFA Athens School of Fine Art / Scholi Kalon Technon – Athens, Greece
1993

Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume – Paris, France
1993

1984

Place de la Défense – Paris, France
1984 – 1987

1981

MNAM Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Paris, France
1981 – 1982

1978

Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris – Paris, France
1978

1960

Galerie Iris Clert – Paris, France
1960

1958

Hanover Gallery – London, United Kingdom
1958

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

2007

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais – Paris, France
10/18/2007 – 10/22/2007
Represented by : Galerie Downtown – 33 rue de Seine – Paris, France

2004

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, n°31
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/21/2004 – 10/25/2004
Represented by : Andre Simoens Gallery – 128-130 Kustlaan – Knokke-Heist, Belgium

2002

ArtBrussels – 20th Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
05/02/2002 – 05/06/2002
Represented by : Galerie Renos Xippas – 108 rue Vieille du Temple – Paris, France


Group exhibitions

2003

Sept Lieux – Sept Matières
Hôtel du Département, Centre d’Art Présence Van Gogh, Château de l’Empéri, Galerie du Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône, Musée de l’Arles Antique – Marseille, France
10/17/2003 – 01/15/2004

Options Sculpture
Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain – Nîmes, France
05/06/2003 – 08/31/2003

1997

Made in France 1947-1997, 50 ans de création en France
MNAM Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Paris, France
01/30/1997 – 09/29/1997

1995

Campo – 46° Biennale di Venezia
Ca’Giustinian San Marco 1316 – Venice VE, Italy
06/11/1995 – 10/15/1995

1985

L’Art et le Temps. Regards sur la quatrième dimension
IAC Institut d’art contemporain – Villeurbanne, France
12/07/1985 – 01/26/1986

1977

Documenta 6
Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Neue Galerie, Karlsaue – Kassel, Germany
06/26/1977 – 10/02/1977

1968

Documenta 4
Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Karlsaue, Galerie an der Schönen Aussicht – Kassel, Germany
06/27/1968 – 10/06/1968

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Books

1991

Arts Plastiques 1990, Acquisitions : Fonds National d’art contemporain
Publisher: FNAC Fonds National d’Art Contemporain – 70 voie des Sculpteurs – Puteaux, France
06/1991
ISBN : 2868950337

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