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Takesada Matsutani is a contemporary artist born in 1937 in Osaka, Japan. He is currently living and working between Japan and France.
NEWS
◆La Répétition. Group exhibition, Centre Pompidou Metz, Feb. 04, 2023— Jan.27, 2025. Learn more.
◆Le geste et le temps. Moviment, chapter 7. Solo exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jun. 14 — Jun.18, 2023. Learn more.
He creates bulges, bubbles and drips, using vinyl adhesive and covering the surfaces with repeated strokes of graphite pencil. Begin exploring:
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View works from 1960 — 1967
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View works from 1960 — 1967
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View works from 1960 — 1967
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View works from 1960 — 1967
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View works from 1960 — 1967
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TAKESADA MATSUTANI
Accompanying a major retrospective of Matsutani’s work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2019, this catalogue fully illustrates the exhibition’s artworks ranging from 1958 to 2019.
Essays by Valérie Douniaux, Christine Macel, Yves Peyré and Toshio Yamanashi. Zürich, Hauser & Wirth Publishers / Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2019. Français / English.
TAKESADA MATSUTANI
Accompanying a major retrospective of Matsutani’s work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2019, this catalogue fully illustrates the exhibition’s artworks ranging from 1958 to 2019.
Essays by Valérie Douniaux, Christine Macel, Yves Peyré and Toshio Yamanashi. Zürich, Hauser & Wirth Publishers / Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2019. Français / English.
TAKESADA MATSUTANI
Accompanying a major retrospective of Matsutani’s work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2019, this catalogue fully illustrates the exhibition’s artworks ranging from 1958 to 2019.
Essays by Valérie Douniaux, Christine Macel, Yves Peyré and Toshio Yamanashi. Zürich, Hauser & Wirth Publishers / Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2019. Français / English.
Takesada Matsutani is a Japanese painter, printmaker and installation artist. A member of the second generation of avant-garde Gutai artists, Matsutani is known for his iconic use of vinyl adhesive and graphite pencil, from bulbous sensual forms to monumental canvases of pencilled streams.
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. Matsutani lives and works between Paris, France and Nishinomiya, Japan. In 2015, he has launched the Shoen Foundation with his wife, Kate Van Houten.