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Japanese painter (born 1937)

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.

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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 ret