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

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

Organizer: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation

Due to the diversification and personalization of contemporary society, color has come to play an increasingly important role not only in fashion and interior design but also in fields such as the environment, health, and beauty. Meanwhile, as smartphones, an ever present part of our lives, now have the ability to reproduce over one billion colors, we have become unknowingly engulfed in a vast world of color.

In this exhibition, focusing on color in art from the modern to the contemporary era, we reconsider the role of color while touching on subjects such as the relationship between color theory and the materials used to express color. This reinterpretation of the history of color in modern and contemporary art is based primarily on paintings, sculptures, and installations by creators such as the Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painters of the 19thcentury who deftly manipulated tubes of oil paint to reconstruct a visual world with a wide range of colors; the Fauvists and abstract painters of the 20th century; and contemporary artists who altered the viewer’s physical sensations through the effects of color.

These artists, who conducted constant and extensive research, and strove to develop unique methods of expression, came to represent a given era. We now ask that you turn your attention to the secrets of color that they devoted their lives to revealing. This experience promises to bring color to your daily life and activities.