Panayiotis Vassilakis Takis (B. 1925)

‘My work gives energy; it brings a balance to your body. It gives energy. And this energy gives something to you, because you already have energy. And your energy and the work’s energy come to be in harmony, without your having to think. But this does not cancel out all the beautiful things that you can see. It’s a manner of approaching: it’s just the magnetic field that is radiating and that harmonizes your own magnetic field. I am not interested in the visual, I am interested in energy. (Takis, quoted in J. Van den Akkerveken, Communicating Energies. Takis on magnetism, truth, hope and water, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp 2012, www.axel-vervoordt.com/data/files/artistsV/26_communicatingenergiesinterviewwithtakis.pdf).