Painter, printmaker, and installation artist Takesada Matsutani is a key figure in the second generation of radical postwar Gutai artists. Matsutani’s work is regularly represented in major Gutai exhibitions and was featured in the International Art Exhibition at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Today, he is one of the most widely represented Gutai artists on the market, due to the longevity of his career and his prolific output. Throughout his career he has continuously adopted new materials and techniques to push the boundaries of his practice. In the 1960s, inspired by Gutai founder Jirō Yoshihara’s principle of doing what has never been done before, Matsutani began using blown air and vinyl glue —then a newly developed material —to create bulbous, sensual reliefs on canvas. His later mural-sized graphite and pencil works on paper feature sweeping, gestural strokes that create broad “bands of blackness,” as several of his exhibitions have been titled.