Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 – Sunday, Jul. 26, 2015

Since the mid-1950s, Takis (born Panagiotis Vassilakis) has pushed into new aesthetic territories by creating three-dimensional works of art that incorporate invisible energies as a fourth element. A self-described “instinctive scientist” who has been a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and who now runs the Research Center for the Arts and Sciences in Athens, Takis has explored the use of forces such as electromagnetism to generate the compositions, movements, and musical soundsof static and kinetic works.

Takis: The Fourth Dimension is the first museum exhibition in the United States to survey his career. Organized by Toby Kamps, the museum’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, the exhibition presents works drawn exclusively from the Menil Collection, which holds the largest single group of Takis’s work outside of Europe.

Takis; Magnetic Painting No. 7, 1962 Oil on canvas, magnets, silk ribbon, and cork Overall: 57 1/4 x 49 3/8 in. (145.4 x 125.4 cm) The Menil Collection, Houston

Photo: Hickey-Robertson, Houston© 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.