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Born 1937 Osaka, Japan. Known for: Mixed-media art creating bulges, bubble and drip images, installation art.
Takesada Matsutani (?? ??, born January 1, 1937 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary mixed-media artist. He was a member of the Gutai group from 1963 to the dissolution of the group in 1972.... Read full biography
Takesada Matsutani (?? ??, born January 1, 1937 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary mixed-media artist. He was a member of the Gutai group from 1963 to the dissolution of the group in 1972. His well-known work involves a technique of blowing a gust of air into a puddle of vinyl wood glue,... Read full biography
Takesada Matsutani (?? ??, born January 1, 1937 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary mixed-media artist. He was a member of the Gutai group from 1963 to the dissolution of the group in 1972. His well-known work involves a technique of blowing a gust of air into a puddle of vinyl wood glue, creating bulges, bubbles, and drips, then covered by patient strokes of graphite pencil. Matsutani's works are represented in a large number of prestigious art museums and collections around the world.... Read full biography
Takesada Matsutani (?? ??, born January 1, 1937 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary mixed-media artist. He was a member of the Gutai group from 1963 to the dissolution of the group in 1972. His well-known work involves a technique of blowing a gust of air into a puddle of vinyl wood glue, creating bulges, bubbles, and drips, then covered by patient strokes of graphite pencil. Matsutani's works are represented in a large number of prestigious art museums and collections around the world. In 2002 the artist, who has lived a large part of his childhood in Nishinomiya, received the Nishinomiya City Cultural Award. Matsutani Takesada enters in 1954 the class of traditional painting (Nihonga) at the Osaka Municipal High School of Crafts... Read full biography
Takesada Matsutani (?? ??, born January 1, 1937 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary mixed-media artist. He was a member of the Gutai group from 1963 to the dissolution of the group in 1972. His well-known work involves a technique of blowing a gust of air into a puddle of vinyl wood glue, creating bulges, bubbles, and drips, then covered by patient strokes of graphite pencil. Matsutani's works are represented in a large number of prestigious art museums and collections around the world. In 2002 the artist, who has lived a large part of his childhood in Nishinomiya, received the Nishinomiya City Cultural Award. Matsutani Takesada enters in 1954 the class of traditional painting (Nihonga) at the Osaka Municipal High School of Crafts Arts (Osaka Shiritsu Kogei Gakko). But, suffering from tuberculosis from 1951 to 1959, he frequently misses school and decides to study Japanese... Read full biography
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Takesada Matsutani (?? ??, born January 1, 1937 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary mixed-media artist. He was a member of the Gutai group from 1963 to the dissolution of the group in 1972. His well-known work involves a technique of blowing a gust of air into a puddle of vinyl wood glue, creating bulges, bubbles, and drips, then covered by patient strokes of graphite pencil. Matsutani's works are represented in a large number of prestigious art museums and collections around the world. In 2002 the artist, who has lived a large part of his childhood in Nishinomiya, received the Nishinomiya City Cultural Award.
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