Takesada Matsutani is a contemporary artist born in Osaka City, and he currently operates from a base in Paris, engaging in international activities.
While studying Japanese painting at Osaka Municipal Craft High School, he encountered Sadamasa Motonaga, a former influential member of the Gutai Art Association (Japanese avant-garde artist group), during a drawing class organized by Nishinomiya City Art Association. This encounter became a turning point for him, leading him to exhibit his works at the 9th Gutai Art Exhibition and join the association the following year. In his early years, he worked with materials such as bars and square timbers, creating artworks in the informel style. However, in 1962, he discovered the potential of vinyl adhesive (bond) that had just been released at the time. He would let the vinyl adhesive flow on the canvas, cutting open the solidified parts to create depth and shaping them into relief-like pieces, some even taking on a spherical form. These works received high acclaim and became representative of Matsutani’s art. In 1966, after winning the Grand Prize in a competition organized by the French government, he moved to France and made remarkable progress in printmaking. In the 1980s, he introduced a new phase by presenting works where he applied layers of black pencil on canvas enriched with vinyl adhesive, thus exploring new possibilities.
His prolific creative activities continue to this day, and he is increasingly gaining recognition both domestically and internationally as an esteemed artist.
As people change over the years, works also develop shifts and changes with age. The works offered at Untitled range from comparatively recent pieces of about twenty years to older works that have passed through nearly seventy years.
Small scratches, changes in the paint surface, shifts in paper or support—these are not mere deterioration but traces of the time the work has lived through.
We do not value only perfect condition. We hope you will receive each work as a single existence, together with the time it has accumulated.
Accessories
Whether a work is framed is noted on each work page. Frame condition varies by work; please contact us in advance if you would like details.
We also accept custom framing matched to the work. As each piece is made individually for the space and work, delivery takes approximately two months.
Framed works include a storage box. Depending on the work, a new box may be made after purchase, which may take several weeks.
