Join us to celebrate the opening of the solo exhibitions ‘Takesada Matsutani. Shifting Boundaries’ and ‘Tetsumi Kudo. Microcosms’ at Hauser & Wirth London.

The Ōsaka-born artist Takesada Matsutani will take over our North Gallery for his first exhibition in London in over a decade, coinciding with his 60th year of living and working in Paris, France. The artist’s diverse practice is concerned with the reshaping of matter, from transforming acrylic, oil paint and graphite to more unconventional materials like vinyl glue and cotton. This exhibition, organized with Olivier Renaud-Clement, ranges from the sensational sculpture ‘The Magic Box’ (1988), to brand-new works that epitomize his experimentation with vinyl glue.

Running alongside Matsutani’s exhibition will be a solo show on Tetsumi Kudo (1935 – 1990) in the South Gallery. In a wide-ranging practice spanning four decades, the post-war Japanese artist explored the implications of what would later be termed the Anthropocene in prescient work that interrogated the proliferation of mass consumption, the rise of technology and environmental degradation. This exhibition will be Kudo’s first in London in over a decade, displaying a selection of works that include the artist’s signature cages, cubes and gardens. Using found materials, store-bought items and hand-sculpted body parts, they suggest a world in which nature, technology and humanity influence each other in a mutually reinforcing system he called the New Ecology.

Though the two artists were part of different movements, they are united by their relocation from Japan to Paris, France in the 1960s, where they became acquainted with each other, and by their rejection of established modes of making.

The exhibitions are on view from 5 February through 18 April.

Tickets are free, with no advance booking required. Complimentary drinks will be served upon arrival.

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Photographs will be taken at this event for use on the Hauser & Wirth website, social media and in other marketing materials.

_{Images: Takesada Matsutani, Abstrait 抽象 La Boverie, Liege, Belgique, 2024 © Takesada Matsutani. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur; Tetsumi Kudo, Cultivation of Nature & People Who Are Looking at It, 1970 – 1971 © Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP Paris 2025. Courtesy Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Barratt}