Index Code:

ART–MAT–MAT

Orgin:

Osaka, Japan

Field Notes:

Glue thickens into skin; tension gathers at seams; incision becomes structure.

Defining Moment:

Vinyl glue “paintings” where skin, bulge, and incision make material pressure visible.

Takesada Matsutani

(

1937–

)

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Matsutani builds a world where material pressure becomes spatial condition, using vinyl glue and graphite to register expansion, tension, and containment across surface and volume.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Takesada Matsutani’s work, this approach appears where latex pressure records repetition.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Takesada Matsutani’s work, this approach appears where latex pressure records repetition.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Gutai

Material and action test the limits of form through direct physical engagement.

Takesada Matsutani

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

In Dialogue

Takesada Matsutani

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue