Contemporary artist
Takesada Matsutani (b. 1937) is a Japanese avant-garde artist of the second-generation Gutai group, known for bulbous vinyl-glue reliefs and monumental graphite works.
Takesada Matsutani is a Japanese painter, printmaker and installation artist, born in Osaka in 1937 and a member of the pioneering Gutai Art Association from 1963 until its dissolution in 1972. Inspired by Gutai's demand for originality, he began using vinyl wood glue — then a new material — blowing air into it to create sensual, bulbous forms, later covering surfaces in patient strokes of graphite for his large-scale "Stream" installations. Based between Paris and Nishinomiya and represented by Hauser & Wirth, his work is held by the Centre Pompidou, the V&A and the National Museum of Art, Tokyo, and featured at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
His Squarespace site, built by Cutwork Studio, functions as an elegant, monochrome archive that mirrors his own restraint. Six decades of work are organised into clearly navigable eras - Gutai, Hard Edge, Graphite, Objects and Recent Experiments - alongside News, Exhibitions, Publications and About, making a long and complex career easy to explore.