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Current Exhibition

God does not play dice.

LIME RESORT HAKONE （HAKONE, December 2024）

︎LIME RESORT HAKONE website

Current Exhibition


April 22nd (Tue) - May 11th (Sun)
11:00 -19:00
Closed on irregular days

2F, Futakotamagawa Tsutaya Denryoku, 1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0094, Japan
tel.03-5717-9222

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The color of a small flower blooming by the roadside can put you in a positive mood, and that color of the ocean you saw long ago remains unfading and shimmers in your memory. Colors remind us of the precious things that exist in our mundane everyday lives.

That a single color can richly stimulate our imagination, and conversely, that a single image can arise from countless colors in combination may serve as proof that we are capable of accepting various differences and make connection beyond our preconceptions.

Moreover, it's because colors coexist with harmony and contradiction that I feel they also contain hints to explore our own invisible essence.

That rejection and acceptance are equally at odds and resonate with each other, and that no matter how many times we paint, we never arrive at a correct answer or an end gives me the sense that we are rather being challenged to demonstrate our resolve and how we intend to approach the diverse potentials that colors hold.


Mitsumasa KADOTA  (March 2025)

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Robert Delaunay, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Donald Judd, Bridget Riley, Gerhard Richter, Bernard Frize, Wolfgang Tillmans, Guo Liang Tang, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Nobuaki Maeda, Natsuko Sakamoto, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Manika Nagare, Mitsumasa Kadota, Kohei Yamada, Aya Kawato, Taro Yamamoto, Yayoi Kusama, and others.


Dates:
Sat., December 14, 2024 – Sun., May 18, 2025, open daily

Venue:
Pola Museum of Art, Gallery 1,2,3

Organizer:
Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation

Address
1285 Kozukayama, Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa Prefecture, 250-0631 Japan


︎POLA MUSEUM OF ART website

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Just as there are countless ways of perceiving things, such as bright and dark colors, liked and disliked colors, as many as there are people and colors, I feel that "color" is an indispensable clue to exploring the diverse essence that is us.Goethe once wrote "Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light," revealing their mystery and complexity from ancient times. I also paint by replacing the feelings inside me that are difficult to verbalize or that I cannot disentangle with these colors. Such are undertakings that can be advanced by trial and error only, and there are no correct answers, but I feel that those difficulties rather serve nourishment to broaden my own perspectives.Nowadays, I'm exploring expressions inspired by contradictions surrounding color, such as "the expanse felt in a color" and "the discrepancies and integration of the parts and the whole." This is because I sense that our mysterious essence exists in the overcoming of such adversity and conflict.


Mitsumasa KADOTA  (December 2024)

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Dice（monochrome） 2024 mixed media W.1100×D.970×H.660mm Private Collection

Current Exhibition


Saturday, December 14, 2024 - Sunday, May 18, 2025

◾Guests staying at Lime Resort Hakone can view the exhibition during their stay.
◾Non-guests will have limited viewing dates and times, so please check Lime Resort Hakone's official Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/limeresorthakone

Lime Resort Hakone offers a fully private, camp-style stay. On the days when there is no charter, the hotel is open as a hotel and can be used for individual overnight stays or day trips. (*No restaurant).

   
Lime Resort Hakone
1246-845 Sengokuhara, Hakone-cho, Ashigarashita-gun, Kanagawa 250-0631

Reservations and inquiries:
TEL 0460-83-8272

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At my childhood home in Shizuoka, there was a large camphor tree that had been toppled and uprooted by strong winds, yet had not died. To my young eyes, the exposed roots of the camphor tree looked like sheer cliffs, and I still remember how, since my family's home was near the sea, the tree became the home of countless crabs that burrowed and gathered there.

Just as we usually cannot see the condition or very existence of a tree's roots underground, I feel that what we can see in our daily lives is similarly limited. This is akin to the feeling that as we go through life, we cannot fully recount our own past experiences or upbringing. Even in today's world, where diversity is celebrated, there are still many things beneath the surface that remain complex, tangled, and unseen, like the roots of a tree.

After toppling over, the camphor tree continued to live with dignity despite its unwieldy appearance. Instead of being a sign of its downfall, the exposed roots became an ideal hiding place for the crabs, taking on a new role.

I am aware that there are "normalities" that cannot be taken for granted. It is not easy to endure unbearable suffering or inescapable misfortune. However, this childhood memory has taught me that there is always some kind of meaning and beginning in everything. All things are relative, and their meaning can change depending on how they are perceived.

Just as Marcel Duchamp's act of altering the orientation of a urinal gave birth to modern art, I believe that we witness a fundamental shift when we begin to see what was previously not visible. Facing my various struggles head on, I explore the possibilities of expression that transcend modern limitations and frameworks in the form of paintings made up of color and brushstrokes. I know that even if I fall, as always, it is the beginning of something new.


Mitsumasa KADOTA  (August 2024)