Mitsumasa Kadota: Dissolving Horizons: A New Figure-Ground Proposition positions Kadota's painting in dialogue with American Abstract Expressionism — particularly the flatness achieved by Frankenthaler and Newman — while grounding it in a polytheistic, non-dualistic worldview in which the boundary between self and world, figure and ground, constantly wavers and dissolves. Dynamic brushwork and vibrant color generate intense surface friction, sublimating Eastern philosophical traditions into the structural foundation of the canvas. The exhibition proposes a contemporary continuation of abstraction's historical trajectory through a distinctly Eastern spiritual lens.
