The artist, once one of the youngest members of the famed avant-garde collective Gutai, is showing some of his latest experiments at Hauser & Wirth. By Ellie Pithers For over six decades, the ...
Takesada Matsutani, two recent works: “Stream 15-8-5” (2015) and “Propagation 15-2-5” (2015), various materials, including vinyl glue, gouache, acrylic and graphite on canvas, each work 63.78 x 51.18 ...
Life partners Takesada Matsutani and Kate Van Houten have a joint show in New York featuring 40 years of work. Kate Van Houten and Takesada Matsutani in his studio, July 2023. Photo by Laura Stevens.
Takesada Matsutani’s globular, blob-like compositions stem from an unlikely source: blood, which he viewed under a microscope in the 1960s with a friend at medical school. The Osaka-born, Paris-based ...
Takesada Matsutani, the Japanese artist associated with the Gutai Art Association, has an exhibition of works created with vinyl glue. “Germination 2021.5” Takesada Matsutani. 2021. Vinyl adhesive and ...
Takesada Matsutani works in a former cabinet-maker's atelier in the Bastille area of Paris. He has been here for more than 20 years, a somewhat modest space flooded with light that pours in through a ...