Takesada matsutani performance
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Takesada Matsutani
Japanese painter (born 1937)
Takesada Matsutani | |
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| Born | 1937 Osaka, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Movement | Gutai Art Association |
Takesada Matsutani (松谷 武判, Matsutani Takesada, born January 1, 1937 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese avant-garde artist based in Paris and Nishinomiya. Active as a painter since the 1950s, Matsutani's practice has also included object-based sculpture, printmaking and installation. Matsutani was a member of the Gutai Art Association from 1963 until its dissolution in 1972. Gutai leader Jirō Yoshihara prioritized artistic innovation and originality, a lesson that has remained with the artist throughout his career.
Since 1961, Matsutani has used wood glue, what was then a newly available material in post-war Japan, to create organic forms on the surface of the canvas. Fascinated by the variety of evocative shapes that revealed themselves through his manipulation of the glue mixed with paint, the artist regularly returned to these biomorphic forms across a variety of mediums and styles, even adapting them to the co
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TAKESADA MATSUTANI
Takesada Matsutani initially aspired to Japanese painting but later shifted his interest to contemporary art. Starting in 1960, he began exhibiting his works in Gutai art exhibitions and officially became a member of the Gutai Art Association in 1963. In the mid-term of Gutai, Takesada Matsutani, along with Shuji Mukai and Tsuyoshi Maekawa, were collectively referred to as the "3M" and became active core members of the second generation of Gutai.
Matsutani opted for Elmer’s glue, a versatile adhesive developed soon after the war, as his primary medium and developed his own style. The glossy and sticky texture of the adhesive, combined with its ability to form organic and sensual shapes, captivated attention as a new and unique possibility in the realm of painting. This artistic approach suggested previously unexplored possibilities.
In 1966, Matsutani moved to France and pursued professional studies in printmaking at the workshop of Stanley William Hayter. Later, he independently produced a series of prints based on photographs. In the late 1970s, he
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Born in Osaka, Japan, 1937
Lives and works in Paris, France and Nishinomiya, Japan
Takesada Matsutani (born January 1st, 1937 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary mixed-media artist. He was a member of the Gutai group from 1963 to the dissolution of the group in 1972. His well-known work involves a technique of blowing a gust of air into a puddle of vinyl wood glue, creating bulges, bubbles, and drips, then covered by patient strokes of graphite pencil. Matsutani's works are represented in a large number of prestigious art museums and collections around the world. In 2002 the artist, who has lived a large part of his childhood in Nishinomiya, received the Nishinomiya City Cultural Award.
Matsutani Takesada enters in 1954 the class of traditional painting (Nihonga) at the Osaka Municipal High School of Crafts Arts (Ōsaka Shiritsu Kogei Gakkō). But, suffering from tuberculosis from 1951 to 1959, he frequently misses school and decides to study Japanese painting on his own, discovering at the same time Western contemporary art through books and magazines. During his long da
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