V. Recent Experiments 2013 — Present
Vibrant colours make a strong comeback in Matsutani’s recent works, in a striking contrast with the ongoing black and white Stream series.
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Recent Experiments Gallery
Recent Experiments Gallery
Recent Works
From the 2010s, particularly from 2017, Matsutani makes a bold use of colour (green, yellow, blue…). But he remains faithful to graphite, creating monumental installations such as Stream-Venice for the 2017 Venice Biennale, or Stream-Pompidou for his major retrospective exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2019.
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Recent Experiments Exhibition
Recent Experiments Exhibition
Starting in 2013-14 Matsutani began revisiting his earlier intense and joyous palette and rounding the formats of his green, yellow and blue canvases swollen with blisters in a veritable explosion of jubilance. This renewed youthfulness noted by his friend Tadao Ando constitutes the climax of a body of work that entered into resilience early on and rather than weakening has culminated in a “crazy wisdom”
— Christine Macel
In: Matsutani Takesada. Editions du Centre
Pompidou/Zürich : Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019.
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