Takesada Matsutani: In the Studio

In his Paris studio, Japanese-born artist Takesada Matsutani talks about how he came to join the Gutai Art Association in 1963, moved to Paris in 1966, and how vinyl adhesive glue and graphite have sustained a practice ‘streaming into infinity’.
Coming of age in postwar Japan, artist Takesada Matsutani found himself longing ‘to make something beyond the canvas’. Gravitating to likeminded artists coalescing as the Gutai Art Association - gutai translating roughly to ‘concrete’ - and working increasingly with the new material of vinyl adhesive glue to make bulbous, three dimensional paintings, the artist eventually moved to Europe in 1966, finding employment in Stanley William Hayter’s Parisian engraving studio, Atelier 17, where engraving allowed Matsutani to ‘draw his imaginations’.
‘drop in time’, Matsutani’s first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset opens on Friday 28 September 2018. The exhibition, which has been organised in collaboration with Olivier Renaud-Clément, includes new paintings and a site-specific installation, alongside a selection of prints dating from the 1960s. In addition, a series of never-before-seen assemblages will be on view, offering an insight into the breadth of the artist’s practice.

[@margaretfarquhar9567]

I love this artist

[@itzerisadomeeiot4980]

what kind of drugs he taking?😂

[@juli-ana]

always come back to this video

[@valiullah]

Beautiful.

[@chompers11]

wow so many highlights in that one

[@annaluciacontangelo5004]

💙

[@CAPTAINRIAX]

Bolod

[@Nancy-tr5fi]

Talk talk, why can%'t you letus SEEENSEE SEE SEEPAINT, SEEE SEE SEE ART STOP TALKING THE WORLD TALKS TOO MUCH.

[@lifebeelifebee9214]

I could never understand this type of an art sorry

[@ritiittiii9344]

art is not to be understood , its to be enjoyed , its to beautify . beauty was always like you except it to be , and modernity has taken a break from it , wanting to see a completely new horizon .

[@letmesummarize1176]

Hey mate, me neither until i saw “whos afraid of conceptual art” (it says the video is 2 hours long but its less than hour, it repeats itself, dont get discouraged)

[@larikmezey3924]

I think you are more into the artist than the art work.

[@studysap1016]

I personally think he is not an artist..but an wanna be.....just pathetic..making people fool