Takesada Matsutani
Stream, Hauser & Wirth, London
1984 – 2013
Graphite pencil on paper and turpentine
150 x 1000 cm / 59 x 39 3/4 in
Performance at ‘Takesada Matsutani. A Matrix’,
Hauser & Wirth London, 16 May 2013
Takesada Matsutani at Hauser & Wirth New York From 4 November to 23 December 2015, Hauser & Wirth New York will present the gallery’s first New York exhibition devoted to internationally-admired Osaka-born, Paris-based artist Takesada Matsutani.]]>
Source: Hauser & Wirth New York
Over a five-decadecareer that began with his participation in the Gutai Art Association and evolved to express the tangledcomplexities of a life lived between France and Japan, Matsutani has developed a unique visual language ofform and materials. His work plays with notions of time and the movement of our bodies through it. Engagingthemes of the eternal and the infinite, and echoing the endless cycles of life and death, Matsutani mergesmaterial, hue, and movement to arrive at an art about the present moment and the reverberating forces andunceasing currents from which life itself flows.
Highlighting the artist’s practice in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s, ‘Takesada Matsutani’ at Hauser& Wirth will present never before seen paintings and sculptures from the artist’s early career, as well as aselection of drawings, and new abstractions in his signature medium of graphite and vinyl glue. Organizedwith Olivier Renaud-Clément, the exhibition will remain on view at the gallery’s East 69th Street locationthrough 23 December 2015.
Takesada Matsutani was a recognized member of Japan’s avant-garde Gutai Art Association (1954 – 1972)when he set forth to France in 1966 on a journey that would transform his career. Developing an aestheticin his formative years through radical experimentations with vinyl glue, the young artist impregnated thesurface of his canvases with bulbous elements, using his own breath to create swollen and ruptured formsevocative of flesh and wounds. For his ability to elicit the sensual tactility of his materials and create viscerallyprofound new forms, Matsutani was awarded first prize at the First Mainichi Art Competition and received asix-month scholarship from the French government to study abroad. While the teachings and ethos of Gutaihave exerted an enduring influence upon the artist, nearly 50 years later Matsutani still calls Paris his home.
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Takesada Matsutani: A Matrix – Hauser & Wirth London (exhibition, 2013)
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