Born in Osaka in 1937. Initially studying Japanese painting, he joined the Gutai Art Association in 1960 through the introduction of Sadamasa Motonaga. Around 1962, using wood a type of vinyl adhesive, which was developed shortly after the end of World War II, he began to produce relief-like works incorporating organic forms formed by the material itself. The sensual shapes and textures that swell and drip onto the canvas were highly praised by Gutai Art Association leader Jiro Yoshihara.

At the age of 29, he went to France as a French government-sponsored student and entered the printmaking studio of S. W. Hayter. With a studio in Paris, since around 1980, he has been pioneering his own unique world of monochrome with works in which the surface of the work is painted in pencil, and continues to expand the possibilities of his own expression from his base in Paris.

This Work was created in 1964, when Matsutani was finally accepted as an official member of the Gutai Art Association and his method of working with bonds had matured. The sensual textures created by vinyl adhesive allow us to see how Matsutani’s intuition in creating the work is fixed on the canvas, allowing us to experience the tension that is unique to Matsutani’s work.