TOKYO OPERA CITY ART GALLERY
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
TAKESADA MATSUTANI
With a career spanning more than six decades, Takesada Matsutani (b. 1937) has devoted himself to interweaving the expression, texture, and presence of material objects with the vital forces of life through his art. After gaining prominence among the second-generation artists of the Gutai Art Association in the early 1960s, Matsutani developed a body of work depicting organic forms shaped out of vinyl adhesive, still a novel material at the time. In 1966 he moved to Paris, where he began printmaking before going on to work with geometric colored surfaces. Recent years have seen a resurgence in critical acclaim for his art, including at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and in a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2019. This exhibition will retrace Matsutani’s practice from his early beginnings to the present through works in diverse mediums as well as archival documents and video footage.
Also on view will be a group exhibition consisting of selected abstract works from the Terada Collection and the latest installment in the project N series of exhibitions featuring young artists, with works by Arisa Nakabayashi.
VENUE
VENUE
TOKYO OPERA CITY ART GALLERY
- D5
- Hatsudai
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery is one of the core institutions of the Tokyo Opera City cultural complex. Established in 1999 as an art museum integrated into urban life, TOCAG presents ambitious projects by Japanese and international artists, architects, and designers who transform the gallery space. It holds about four special exhibitions a year as well as an exhibition series for emerging Japanese artists called project N. TOCAG is also home to the Terada collection, comprising more than 4,000 works by Japanese artists in various mediums, including a substantial selection by celebrated abstract painter Tatsuoki Nambata. Donated by Kotaro Terada, a partner in the Tokyo Opera City complex’s development, the collection reveals the diverse trajectories that art has followed in postwar Japan.
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