Takesada Matsutani, Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris: 26 June-23 September 2019

Born in Osaka, painter, printmaker, and installation artist Takesada Matsutani has lived and worked in Paris since 1966. This retrospective exhibition at the Centre Pompidou traces his career development through 22 of his works from the late 1950s to the present, which were donated to the Pompidou by the artist himself.

Matsutani's artistry, constantly experimenting with organic matter and its links to the spiritual (marked mainly by Shinto and Buddhism) and the notion of space-time, developed in a very personal way. He began blending classic nihonga painting and Surrealism-inspired art, then moved to informal abstraction and then evolved into a decidedly Gutaï style. Later on, when he was already living in France, he discovered serigraphy and adopted an approach that was similar to the American Hard Edge style. 

Centre Pompidou

Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris