Magnetic fields at the Palais de Tokyo
A major figure in kinetic art, Takis celebrates his ninetieth birthday at the Palais de Tokyo. Paris Select invites you to levitate from field to space. While the Menil Collection in Houston presents major works by Takis from his collection, the Palais de Tokyo is devoting a vast monographic to the artist until May 17. Around fifty large-scale works are to be discovered there in this event of a rare magnitude, since the presentation of the Jeu de paume in 1993. Born in Athens, living in Paris in the 1950s, Takis chose to explore in his work is the energy of magnetic fields. In the proximity of his contemporaries of New Realism, he integrates movement, light and music into his sculptural approach, combined with the use of magnets. An indefatigable experimenter, "intuitive scientist", he has never ceased to seek to capture cosmic energy by combining art and science. A contemporary avant-garde plastic artist, his work is rooted in a sculptural tradition, ranging from archaic Greek sculpture and Giacometti to discarded objects of technology.