Takis

Takis (Panayotis Vassilakis) (b Athens, 29 Oct. 1925).
Greek experimental artist, active mainly in Paris, best known for his highly original work in Kinetic sculpture. His creations often employ magnetic fields in which various metal objects produce changing patterns—the magnet's ‘live force and vibration gives life to what has seemed to be dead material’. In 1960 he suspended the poet Sinclair Beiles on a metal frame between two powerful magnets at the Galerie Iris Clert in Paris. Sometimes he combines light effects and music with movement.