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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Wind signal (spheres)
Alternate Title:
Signal éolien (sphères)
Image View:
Overall view in sculpture garden
Creator:
Takis (Greek (modern) sculptor, born 1925)
Location:
repository: Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
623, chemin des Gardettes
GPS:
43.70059 7.115085
Date:
2005 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Kinetic (style); Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
iron, fiberglass spheres, fiberglass cone (base)
Technique:
construction (assembling); metalworking
Measurements:
450 cm (height) x 120 cm (width)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; kinetic sculpture; wind vane
Description:
Takis is world-renowned for his investigations of the gap between art and science. Takis, who describes himself as an "instinctive scientist," employs powerful, elemental forces to generate the forms, movements, and musical sounds of both his static and kinetic works. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-TAKIS-MF-SE-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Wind signal (spheres)