Vue de l’exposition COSMO — TAKIS: Homage to Takis (1925 — 2019) à l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de sa naissance — Curateur : Alfred Pacquement, Xippas, Paris, 2025
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Takis — Galerie Xippas
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November 14, 2025 — By Guillaume Benoit
Exceptionally generous and no less powerful, the exhibition Takis at the Xippas Gallery celebrates the artist’s inventive spirit by offering an exciting panorama of a body of work that never ceased to stage the cosmic forces underlying our fragile equilibriums.
Takis — Cosmo — Takis @ Xippas Gallery from October 20, 2025 to January 10, 2026.
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A retrospective all the more vibrant as it also marks the 35th anniversary of a gallery whose founder had previously been the director of Takis’s studio, and inaugurated the space with the master’s work. A historical weight that lends a palpable depth to the ensemble.
From the initial anthropomorphic figures—quickly subverted by a more cosmic vision of corporeality—emerged forms definitively drawn toward verticality, carried by a call to defy telluric force. Before escaping toward chimeras that became, in turn, links to humankind, and perhaps meaningful ways of speaking about it at a time—the 1960s and 1970s—when technology began to define the near totality of human gestures.
Yet the aim is not to abandon the earth. Recovered materials, minerals emitting their own attractive force—everything becomes
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Vue de l’exposition COSMO — TAKIS: Homage to Takis (1925 — 2019) à l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de sa naissance — Curateur : Alfred Pacquement, Xippas, Paris, 2025
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Vue de l’exposition COSMO — TAKIS: Homage to Takis (1925 — 2019) à l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de sa naissance — Curateur : Alfred Pacquement, Xippas, Paris, 2025
© Xippas, Paris, 2025
a pretext to connect it more broadly to an ether of possibilities. Magnets, needles, electrical currents thus become vectors of a new equilibrium, a crisis of gravity.
Each element confronts and supports the others in a staging reminiscent of an experimental display, rooted in the technical side of this “intuitive scientist,” as he described himself, the author of a poetics of technology whose waves continue to resonate today.
