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Takesada Matsutani

TAKESADA MATSUTANI

MATSUTANI Hauser & Wirth 6 April–19 May 2024 Paris
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Takesada Matsutani, the Ōsaka-born artist who has lived and worked in Paris for the past 60 years, hasdeveloped a unique visual language of form and material over five decades, and at the age of 87 stillmaintains an energetic daily studio practice. This exhibition, organised with Olivier Renaud-Clement,features a selection of new works in direct response to the space, a highlight of which includes a majorsite-specific window installation, alongside rare historic pieces by the artist from his time in the Gutaigroup, showcasing the breadth of his career and development of his masterful artistic practice. This showfollows on from the artist’s first major retrospective in France at the Centre Pompidou in 2019 and is inanticipation of Matsutani’s solo exhibition at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from 3 October – 17 December2024.

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From the early 1960s until the 1970s Matsutani was a key member of the ‘second generation’ of the influential post war Japanese art collective, the Gutai Art Association. Over five decades Matsutani has developed a unique visual language of form and materials. As part of the Gutai group, Matsutani experimented with vinyl glue, using fans and his own breath to manipulate the substance, creating bulbous and sensuous forms reminiscent of human curves and features.

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