TAKESADA MATSUTANI

Takesada Matsutani is a Japanese painter, engraver and installation artist.

A member of the second generation of Gutai avant-garde artists, Takesada Matsutani is renowned for his emblematic use of vinyl adhesive and lead pencil, his sensual bulb-like shapes and monumental canvasses of crayon streams. 

His works feature in the Centre Pompidou and National Institute for Art History (INHA) collections in Paris, the National Museum of Art in Tokyo, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, among others.

Matsutani lives and works between Paris and Nishinomiya in Japan. In 2015, he launched the Shoen Foundation with his wife, Kate Van Houten.

“Yes, in the end, I hope I’ve stayed true to the Gutai motto to constantly seek ‘that which has never been done’, and to the Gutai principle of dialogue with matter, leaving things to chance and spontaneity.”*

*Valérie Douniaux and Takesada Matsutani, “Interview with Takesada Matsutani”, Perspective, 1 | 2020, p. 111-124

Source: Centre Pompidou

BS09/10 – January/July 1983

pp.174-181

TAKESADA MATSUTANI

NOIR-KURO

Ink and oil pencil drawings. Stamped, typed and handwritten inscriptions.

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