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Magnetism, light and sound – a Takis retrospective

23 Oct 2019
Taken from the November 2019 issue of Physics World.

Metal and magnetism;  light and darkness; as well as sound and silence all come into play at the Takis exhibition at the Tate Modern, as Rachel Brazil discovers

Two sculptures by Takis
Invisible forces Takis made 'kinetic' sculptures. A retrospective of his work at the Tate Modern in London includes Magnetic Fields 1969 (detail shown, left: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019. Ph Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York) and Telepainting 1964 (right: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019. Photo: © Tate (Andrew Dunkley and Mark Heathcote)).
Pioneering artist Panagiotis Vassilakis (1925–2019), known professionally as Takis, spanned the di

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