Special Information for the Artist
He was born in Athens in 1925. He participated in the Resistance during the German occupation of Greece and the Civil War that followed, and never ceased to paint and make sculpture. He left Greece in 1954 and settled in Paris. Since then, both lives and works in Paris and Athens.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1955 Figures in Rlaster and Iron, Hanover Gallery, London
1955 Figures in Iron and Signals Galerie Furstenberg, Paris
1958 Signals, Hanover Gallery, London
1959 Presentation de trois sculptures magnetiques et de Antigravite, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris
1959 Telemagnetique de Takis, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris
1960 Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York
1960 L'impossible: un homme dans I'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 magnetrons 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, Editions limitees et illimitees, Galerie Schwarz, Milan
1967 Takis, Editions Signals limitees et illimitees, 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 / Massachusetts
1969 Takis, Staedtisches Museum Schloss, Leverkousen
1971 Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
1971 Multiples de Takis, Galerie Bama. Paris
1972 Lignes paralleles, Galerie Iolas, Milan
1972 Takis, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
1972 Takis, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels
1974 Takis' musikalische Raume, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
1974 Takis, Iolas-Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens
1974 Takis Musicales, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels
1976 Sculptures erotiques, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
1977 Takis: Hydromagnetique, Galerie Artcurial, Paris
1977 Takis Editions, New Smith Callery, Brussels
1977 Takis: sculptures 1955-1965, Third Eye Gallery, Athens
1978 Takis: Espace musical, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC 2, Paris
1979 Takis Klangraum Gestaltung, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
1979 Takis, Galerie Reckermann, Cologne
1979 Takis, Musee 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 of Taki, inaugural exhibition of exhibition space "Factory" School of Fine Arts, Athens
