(* 1925 in Athens) came to sculpture as an autodidact. He settled in Paris in 1954 and was soon involved with the kinetic art movements. Takis started out with figurative sculptures influenced by archaic art. In his works, usually based on magnetism, he is interested in the visualisation of invisible forces (e.g. thin rods with electromagnets at the tip produce by means of their magnetic force vibrating movement). In ‘light signals’ he investigated the effect of light as a form of electromagnetic energy. Starting in 1965 he developed ‘musical sculptures’ in which needles moved by magnetic waves produce sounds. Since the seventies these have expanded in the form of environments into ‘musical spaces’.