TAKIS (VASSILAKIS) was born in 1925 in Athens. Preferring, as a matter of principle, to teach himself rather study in a institution, he left Greece in 1954 and lived as a citizen of the world, travelling through Europe and the USA. Despite this, he never severed his links with the country of his birth. Starting in 1946, from his earliest years as a sculptor, Takis was interested in natural phenomena: stones moulded by time and river water, hte unexpected shapes taken by exploding metals. He regarded them as sculpture. Some of his earliestvmanifestations consisted of explosions carried out in open places.
