ART CITIES:Paris-Takis,Champs Magnétiques

 An inventor as much as an artist, an “Intuitive Scientist” as he defines himself, a contemporary avant-garde artist but also a scientific philosopher drawing from the most important ancestors of pre-Socratic philosophy and from Hippocratic to Ancient Egyptian medicine, Takis was a major figure in post-war sculpture. His deeply original formal vocabulary is inseparable from the magnetic field energy that underlies his entire oeuvre. Fascinated by modern technology, by radars detecting metallic objects in the cosmos and by invisible waves that transmit messages and sounds, he opted for magnetism when he invented the “Télésculptures”. Takis is most certainly the artist of his generation that was most able to unite art and science, paving the way for all sorts of artistic directions in the ensuing decades. In 2015 on his 90th birthday, he will be exhibiting at the Menil Collection in Houston and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Info: “Champs Magnétiques”, Curating: Alfred Pacquement, Palais de Tokyo, 13, Avenue du President Wilson, Paris, Duration: 18/2-17/5/15, Days & Hours: Daily: 12: 00-24: 00, Closed: Tue, www.palaisdetokyo.com