Takesada matsutani biography of rory
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Born in Osaka, Japan, 1937
Lives and works in Paris, France and Nishinomiya, Japan
Takesada Matsutani (born January 1st, 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.
Takesada matsutani biography of rory
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 (Ōsaka Shiritsu Kogei Gakkō).
But, suffering from tuberculosis from 1951 to 1959, he frequently misses school and decides to study Japanese painting on his own, d