10 Facts About Panayiotis Vassilakis

Panayiotis Vassilakis, known as Takis, was a self-taught Greek artist known for his kinetic sculptures.

Panayiotis Vassilakis exhibited his artworks in Europe and the United States.

Panayiotis Vassilakis was intrigued by the long, exaggerated features that Giacometti would use in his sculptures.

Panayiotis Vassilakis created his first atelier with his childhood friends, and fellow artists, Minos Argyrakis and Raimondos, in Anakassa, Athens.

Panayiotis Vassilakis explored the magnetic forces and energy of the magnetic fields, which became a foundation of his future works.

Panayiotis Vassilakis had a child with English artist Sheila Fell in 1958.

Panayiotis Vassilakis's installation Electro-Magnetic Musical is a series of white panels with guitar strings stretched across their width, and a long needle suspended in front of the strings.

Panayiotis Vassilakis studied hydrodynamic energy here, and his invention, Sculpture hydromagnetique, is the result of his research at MIT.

Panayiotis Vassilakis inspired a group of people to start a chip company of the same name.

Panayiotis Vassilakis returned to Greece in 1986 where he established the Research Center for Art and the Sciences in Gerovouno, Attica, although its official inauguration wasn't until 1993.