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Takesada Matsutani

Abstract Art

November 19, 2013

A Japanese painter, printmaker and installation artist, Takesada Matsutani is best known for his iconic use of vinyl adhesive and graphite pencil, from bulbous sensual forms to monumental canvases of pencilled streams. He was a key member of the second generation of the influential post war Japanese art collective, the Gutai Art Association.

Born in 1937 in Osaka, Japan, Matsutani is currently living and working between Paris, France and Nishinomiya, Japan. He exhibited in a range of venues, including Hauser & Wirth, Central, Hong Kong, Shimada Gallery, Kobe, Japan, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Bergamin & Gomide Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, Shefter Gallery, Krakow, Poland, Japan Art Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan, and Galerie Richard, New York NY. His works can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris, the National Museum of Art in Tokyo, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, among others. In 2015, he has launched the Shoen Foundation with his wife, Kate Van Houten.

Matsutani is known for a unique visual language of form and materials. Part of the Gutai group since 1963, he has experimented with vinyl glue, using fans and his own breath to manipulate the substance. Over the decades, he continuously developed his voice and discovered new potentials to express the inner subjective dimension.

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