TAKIS

 Musicales 7" BOX

Original first edition

Beautiful gatefold cardboard cover

+ original lithography !!

+ 16 p. with text, b/w photos & drawing

Numbered edition of 1000 copies

Edited by Alexander Iolas, France

Release date 1973

Stunning beautiful art edition 7"/box, sold for several hundreds of $$ in the past !

This is the nearly impossible to find Takis catalogue + 7" enclosed in a beautiful cardboard box cover, released in 1973 for the Festival d'Automne, Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris, France. It's an amazing edition that comes with several inserts and sheets, texts by William Burroughs, Pierre Restany etc., issued in 1000 copies only. Terrific suspended drone made by his sound sculptures: Takis' musical sculptures are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds: the latter are to be heard every time a needle strikes a string, when attracted by a magnet. An auction including rather obscure items for people into avant, experimental, sound poetry, fluxus, Broken Music, revue OU, Ferdinand Kriwet, Henri Chopin, Ake Hodell, Bernard Heidsieck, Gil J Wolman, Joseph Beuys, François Dufrene, sound art, etc.

For those who are not familiar with the artist

Takis, was born in Athens in 1925. Completely self-taught, he started making his first sculptures in 1946. Initially his work referred to Greek archaic sculpture, although it later became more abstract and inspired by physical phenomena such as magnetic force, and gravity. In 1954 he left Greece to live between Paris and London, where the following year he exhibited his sculptures at the Hanover Gallery. During this time he began work on the Signals series: this comprised high aerials made from metal reeds affixed to a small base, at the top of which various metal objects were attached.

In 1959 he exhibited his first Telemagnetic sculptures at the Galerie Iris Clert in Paris. These were metal objects tied to a nylon thread, remaining suspended in space by the use of magnets. The following year at the same gallery, he presented his Flying Man, a human body suspended mid-air by magnetic force. He pursued his research using Telelumières, lamps of various shapes whose light was modified by electromagnets. These ideas were developed into his musical sculptures exhibited in 1965 at the Galerie Alexandre Iolas in Geneva, where magnetism was used to produce repeated sounds.

In 1967, Takis’s work was exhibited at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York, at the Centre national d’art contemporain in Paris in 1972, and at Documenta, Kassel in 1977. In the 1980s he began to create large-scale installations and sculptures, showing his interest toward the urban space; such as the Signals series, in the Place de la Défense in Paris, executed between 1984 to 1987, or the transformation of the Beauvais aqueduct into a musical tower in 1992 by using a netting of vertical metal cables. The artist represented Greece for the 1995 Venice Biennale.

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