TATE MODERN, LONDON The Greek artist’s work has been revealing the magic of electromagnetism for decades – and his wonder doesn’t diminish It’s hard not to use the word “magic” about the art of Takis. A nail floats motionless in space. A cylinder and a ball dance jerkily with each other. Angelic music is played withno sign of a human hand. Yet none of this is the work of the supernatural, nor is Takis trying to fool anyone into thinking that it is. The force that gives his art its innocent joy is part of the fabric of the universe. Magnetism – the phenomenon that Takis, who was born in Athens in 1925, has been making visible since the 1950s – has a long history of being mistaken for magic. Lodestones, with the power to attract ferrous metal, were coveted long before their properties were understood: it was said their spooky pull could be neutralised by garlic. Continue reading...
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