Object Matsutani notebook

£30

Jot down your big ideas for 2024 in this A5 notebook, developed with Takesada Matsutani, a Japanese artist who has created his own visual language of form and materials. As part of the influential post-war Japanese collective the Gutai Art Association, he experimented with vinyl glue, using fans and his own breath to manipulate the substance into expressive forms that recalled human curves and features. After the group disbanded in the 1970s, his manipulations of vinyl glue and graphite became even more radical. In his highly expressive work, every stroke of graphite has a dynamic intensity. The image on the cover of this notebook is a case in point. Archive photographs and stories also feature on its 110 pages.