The forthcoming Modern and Contemporary Art sale on June 6 features a group of works by Greek sculptor Takis (1925-2019).
Using artistic techniques related to magnetism, Takis began creating his first signals as early as 1955. He likened the signals, composed of found objects and iron, to flowers.
"Takis sees flowers as pollen signals to bees, just as signposts warn of crossroads and bends. The signals of the seventies no longer resemble fragile, disheveled reeds. Elegantly disproportionate, seemingly balanced, the signals laid out in single file on a plain call to mind the plaster soldiers of more than twenty years ago. In a group of three rods, two are coif- fered with electronic parts found at random, the third bears a hand-worked steel "bla- son", a white arrow on a black field. Another triad, whose exceptionally large rods are set "up to their necks" in heavy fluted sleeves, carries parts, one of alumi- nium, the other of steel and a tiny handmade bronze disc pierced with an eye."
Héléna and Nicolas Calas, "Takis monographies", Editions Galilée, Paris, 1984
