Matsutani joins the famous avant-garde group Gutaï  in 1963. In 1966, he leaves Japan to study in Paris. The following year, he enters Hayter's Atelier 17. he becomes hayter's assistant in 1969. MATSUTANI spends six years working in the engraving workshop, discovering the richness of black, which been dominating his works since that time. 

    The artist's favorite tools are glue and the pencil. MATSUTANI combines spiritual interrogations over space and time with a more formal reflexion on surface. From the two dimensions of fabric or paper, he conceives of vinyl adhesive reliefs. The austere and repetitive rhythm of the of pencil or brush strokes or the brush is broken by the blisters created by glue. 

    Since 1979,MATSUTANI regularly designs installations which expres the same interrogations as his canvases or prints.

Installations

Above :

On the left : Stream K-1, 1987, Keller Gallery, Paris, paper, blackkead, vinyle, a bag of ink, 10 m x 150 cm x 15 cm.

 On the right : Stream 92, 1992, Ashiya City Museum of Art, blacklead on canvas, 1300 x 213 cm (diameter on the ground : 400 cm).

Middle line : 

On the left : Relaciones, 1996, San José Museum of Art and Design, Costa Rica.

On the right : Nagare - 5, 1981-1983, Rath Museum, Geneva, 10 m of graphite drawing with dilution on the wall and the ground.

Lower line :

Circle, 1998, Kyôto, 180 x 1000 cm.

Happening :

Stream, 2001, Konishi House, Ôsaka.

Propagation - 73, 1973, serigraphy, 57 x 58,2 cm.

A line

1994, graphite, vinyle and paper, 130 x 162 cm.

Circle 2000 - 1 

2000, vinyle and  graphite on canvas, 291 x 197 cm.

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