Matsutani TakesadaHashigakari

Works by Matsutani Takesada in the museum’s painting room: vinyl glue paintings and graphite drawings, including three new donations.

The display marks sixty years since Matsutani settled in France. The museum receives three of his works as a gift, among them Cercle-Cernuschi, made for the museum in 2025–26 from vinyl glue blown and shaped into organic forms, with two earlier Cercle works echoing it.

Two 1992 graphite works, Écriture 92-10 and 92-10-1, build up pencil marks to leave white curves, a negative calligraphy related to his Stream series. The title is a Nō theatre term for the bridge between wings and stage, here a metaphor for his link between Japan and the West.

Full details at cernuschi.paris.fr