Signal

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Panayiotis Vassilakis Takis (B. 1925)
Signal
incised twice with the artist's signature 'Takis' (on the base)
found objects and steel rods
39½ x 4 3/8 x 4 3/8in. (100.4 x 11.2 x 11.2cm.)
Executed in 1973

Provenance

Private Collection, Athens.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

‘My work gives energy; it brings a balance to your body. It gives energy. And this energy gives something to you, because you already have energy. And your energy and the work’s energy come to be in harmony, without your having to think. But this does not cancel out all the beautiful things that you can see. It’s a manner of approaching: it’s just the magnetic field that is radiating and that harmonizes your own magnetic field. I am not interested in the visual, I am interested in energy. (Takis, quoted in J. Van den Akkerveken, Communicating Energies. Takis on magnetism, truth, hope and water, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp 2012, www.axel-vervoordt.com/data/files/artistsV/26_communicatingenergiesinterviewwithtakis.pdf).

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