Abstract expression was born in the early 20th century in Europe, and Kandinsky is generally considered to be the founder of abstract painting, which is said to have occurred around 1910. Abstraction then reached its zenith in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. Greenberg’s argument that “by stripping away the extraneous elements from painting and reducing it to the necessary and fundamental elements, modernism becomes the final art form” caused a stir in the art world, as he defended Abstract Expressionism at the time. Now, a little more than half a century after that great painting movement, “Is there a limit to the expressiveness of abstraction, and has its potential already been largely attempted by previous artists?” The Japanese art scene today is full of narrative and animation-like works, while abstract paintings are lurking in the background, and figurative expression is much celebrated. In this exhibition, we will re-examine the meaning of abstraction as a method of expression in the current Japanese art scene and ultimately explore the fundamental meaning of what art and painting are. In the midst of the so-called “Figurative Age”, we will focus on the artists who have been pursuing new possibilities in abstract expression and rethink the meaning and possibility of abstract painting in the various styles of abstract expression of selected abstract artists.