{"id":30034,"date":"2016-03-30T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=30034"},"modified":"2016-03-30T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:21:16","slug":"matsutani-and-the-art-of-sensual-abstract-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/matsutani-and-the-art-of-sensual-abstract-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Matsutani and the Art of Sensual Abstract Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30043 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/euhHncxqhw5p_JeJ0RDfS6vDdO6zU9IM-u1dYAXbRyc.jpg\" alt=\"Takesada Matsutani\" width=\"716\" height=\"599\" \/> Takesada Matsutani, A Spot, 1971 Oil on canvas 22 x 27 cm \/ 8 5\/8 x 10 5\/8 in<\/p>\n<p>With a career spanning five decades Takesada Matsutani is one the greatest living Gutai artists. Originating in 1950s Japan, the Gutai Group was the artist collective in postwar Japan that pushed for artists to experiment with the pure materiality of painting. As a painter Matsutani has done more than that: he has created a unique visual language culminating in works where he embeds pigments with expressive texture that jumps off the canvas. In his latest show at Z\u00fcrich&#8217;s Hauser &amp; Wirth, Matsutani presents some of his 70s paintings that play with notions of time and movements through sensual swollen forms.<br \/>\n<strong>See in the image gallery below more of Matsutani&#8217;s soothing biomorphic paintings<\/strong> \n<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Seite 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<strong>Takesada Matsutani is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hauserwirth.com\/info\" target=\"_blank\">Hauser &amp; Wirth<\/a> Z\u00fcrich until 21 May 2016<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matsutani presents his 70s paintings that soothe through biomorphic forms<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":30044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[2108,4163,522,1458,4164,4165],"class_list":["post-30034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-abstract","tag-gutai","tag-hauser-wirth","tag-painting","tag-sensual","tag-takesada-matsutani"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Matsutani and the Art of Sensual Abstract Painting Matsutani and the Art of Sensual Abstract Painting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/matsutani-and-the-art-of-sensual-abstract-painting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matsutani and the Art of Sensual Abstract Painting Matsutani and the Art of Sensual Abstract Painting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Matsutani presents his 70s paintings that soothe through biomorphic forms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/matsutani-and-the-art-of-sensual-abstract-painting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-30T16:21:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Will Furtado\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1\u00a0Minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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