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


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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