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Matsutani
Biography
Based in France, Takesada Matsutani (born in Osaka in 1937) is a major
contemporary artist.
In the 1960s, he joined the avant-garde Japanese movement, Gutai. This was the
first Japanese art movement to be affiliated to Western art and to receive an
international recognition, thanks to its uniqueness and the influence it had on later art
movements.
Founded in 1954, the Gutai Art Association, as the group was formally known,
conceived the art object as a tangible document of its production. This preoccupation
with process as content resulted in creations such as events-as-art and onstage art
actions. Some Western commentators interpreted these productions as proto-typical
performance art forms.
Although the group broke up in 1972, Matsutani’s Streams, vast expanses of metallic
black graphite on mural-size sheets of paper, still smack of the early Gutai era’s
action-makes-artwork ethos.
In 1966, Matsutani moved to Paris to study. The following year, he joined the
printmaking workshop Atelier 17 of engraver Hayter. He became his assistant in
1969. MATSUTANI stayed for 6 years at the studio where he discovered the richness
of black that has dominated his work ever since.
In addition to canvases and prints, he creates installations.
MATSUTANI correlates spiritual interrogations on space and time with a more formal
deliberation on surface.
On the two-dimensional canvas or paper, he creates embossment with polyvinyl
glue, bringing a dimension of randomness and chance to the composition. The pencil
or brush strict rhythm is broken by the eruptions created by the glue.
Since 1979, MATSUTANI regularly conceives installations where he expresses the
same interrogations as in his canvases and prints.
Solo exhibitions since 2000
2000:
2001:
2002:
Wave, Otani Museum, Nishinomiya (Japan)
Wave 2, Motomachi gallery, Kobe (Japan) and Gendaikko Museum,
Miyazaki (Japan).
Wave, Takechi gallery, Kumamoto (Japan).
Cairns Regional Museum Gallery, Cairns (Australia).
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2003:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010:
Bands of Blackness, Don Soker gallery, San Francisco (U.S.A).
Bands of Blackness, Lads gallery, Osaka, Yume gallery, Tokyo, and
Kaneko Art, Tokyo (Japan).
Hiro Chikashige, Okayama (Japan).
Accostage gallery, Takamastu (Japan).
ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, stand of the Mussokhan
gallery, Madrid (Spain).
Kan gallery, Kyoto (Japan).
Nina Lumer gallery, Milan (Italy).
Galerie Feidher, Bruxelles (Belgium).
Kaneko gallery, Tokyo (Japan).
L’Arsenal, Metz (France).
Light in a line, Kaneko, Tokyo (Japan).
Galerie Guislain, Etats d’Art, Paris (France).
L’Espace du dedans, Lille (France).
André Malraux Cultural Centre, Agen (France).
Galerie Negebpunt, Roeselare (Belgium)
Matsutani and Ph. Anuek, Saint Mandé (France).
Matsutani & Dominique Coffignier, Art Forum Jarfo, Kyoto (Japan).
Matsutani & de Montpellier, Espace d’art contemporain Saint Martin,
Montélimar (France).
Tamura gallery, Hiroshima (Japan).
Friedrich Muller gallery, Frankfurt (Germany).
Galerie E.G.P, Paris (France).
Stream, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama (Japan).
Group exhibitions (selection)
1986:
1987:
1992:
1996:
2000:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2008:
Museum of Louvain-la-Neuve, (Belgium), with Chillida, Tapies, Miro.
Rückblick - Eine Sammlung der 60er Jahre - Eugen Lendl gallery, Graz
(Austria).
Sammlung Junge Kunst der König-Brauerei - Nassauischer Kunstverein,
Wiesbaden (Germany).
Relaciones. Diez artistas de tres continentes, MADC (Museo de Arte y
Diseño Contemporáneo), San José (Costa Rica).
Une Ville-Une Collection, Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image
Imprimée, La Louvière (Belgium).
Why not live for Art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (Japan).
Resounding Spirit - Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Samek Art
Gallery, Lewisburg, PA (U.S.A).
Description Herbst - Winterkollektion 2006 / Künstler der Galerie, Ariadne
gallery – Thomas Netusil Kunsthandel, Vienna (Austria)
Horizontes Oblicuos, MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo,
San José (Costa Rica).
Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Spencer
Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (U.S.A).
Awards
1969:
International Nickel Award, Society of Canadian Engravers (Canada).
3rd price Europahaus, Vienna (Austria).
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1972:
1973:
1974:
1980:
1990:
Festival international de peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer (France).
International Drawing Exhibition, Rijeka (Yougoslavia).
Award – World Print Competition, San Francisco (U.S.A).
2nd price – Bradford Biennale (United Kingdom).
Honor award at the Jury unanimity – International Drawing Exhibition,
Rijeka (Yougoslavia).
Painting Great Award Grand– Osaka Triennale (Japan).
Public and corporate collections
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
Ministère des Affaires Culturelles (Belgium)
IBM France
Hyogo Art Museum (Japan)
Tokyo Museum of Modern Art (Japan)
Ashiya City Museum of Art & History (Japan)
Konan Educational Institution (Japan)
Riijka Museum of Modern Art (Croatia)
Fujiki Collection, Miyazaki (Japan)
Porta Poa Collection, Kobe (Japan)
Osaka Contemporary Art Center (Japan)
Musée Cantini, Marseille (France)
FRAC Midi-Pyrénées (France)
Metropolitan Tokyo Museum (Japan)
Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum (Japan)
Bibliothèque National de Paris (France)
Bibliothèque Royale de Bruxelles (Belgium)
New York Public Library (U.S.A)
Boston Library (U.S.A)
Philadelphia Free Library (U.S.A)
Chase Manhattan Bank (U.S.A)
Philippe Morris, Inc (U.S.A)
Cincinnati Museum (U.S.A)
Albertina Museum, Vienna (Austria)
National Museum of Oslo (Norway)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (United Kingdom)
City of Manchester Art Museum (United Kingdom)
Haïfa Art Museum (Israel)
Bibliography (selection)
Gutaï, An On the Spot Report, Jules Langsner – Art International IX, 1965.
Jeune peinture, Millésime 69.
Les expositions de la saison prochaine III, “La Jeunesse comme Parti Pris”,
Catherine Millet, Les lettre Françaises, 1968.
“Graphics”, de Pat Gilmor, Arts Review, London, 1968.
Recent Works of Matsutani, Yoshaki Inui, Motomachi Gallery, Kobe, 1980.
Japanese Contemporary Art - Tomorrow’s Art, de Yoshiaki Inui, Syogakukan, Tokyo,
1980.
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Les Miroirs Métaphysiques de Matsutani, Alain Jouffroy, Kaneko Art, Tokyo, 1982.
“En Haut le Noir, En Bas le Vent”, Léon Merysol, Point à la Ligne No. 1, November
1985, Paris.
Invitation à la Culture Japonaise, Jean-François Sabouret (Editor), La Découverte,
Paris, 1991, pp.105 and113.
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