1st Open Studio at AIR 3331 Nishikicho Studio, Tokyo, 05 Sept 2016

トロピカルな風景  Tropical sceneries The showcase will present a new vein in Samues’ painting practice for a series of canvas work that consists of 18 pieces of abstract paintings, moving between colors to colors; lines and spaces to interpret landscape in tropical sceneries in Japan, taking nature as the inspiration for his contemporary forms. AIR 3331 Facebook post for information Date: Monday, 5th Sept, 2016, Time: … Continue reading 1st Open Studio at AIR 3331 Nishikicho Studio, Tokyo, 05 Sept 2016

News of my Artist in Residency program in 3331, Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

Exhibition event information I am delighted to be selected to participate in this artist in residence program from mid of Jul to Oct end 2016. I will have a kick-off exhibition “The Art of Impermanence” from 30/07 to 01/08 2016 in 3331 Arts Chiyoda exhibition gallery. This exhibition will feature part of my artworks I created in my MFA program (2015-16) namely 1) Poetic Landscape … Continue reading News of my Artist in Residency program in 3331, Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

[Museum walks] photo album: Yokohama Museum of Art

This Yokohama Triennale Contemporary art exhibition has 2 highlight artwork: The German Angst (Empty room) by Gregor Schneider- Schneider shows a new installation called German Angst in his favorite spot in the Yokohama Museum of Art. Entering an “empty” room, viewers will roam around the strange space as it throws their senses out of kilter, The feeling recalls the way one felt when becoming lost as a child, … Continue reading [Museum walks] photo album: Yokohama Museum of Art

[Museum walks] photo album: Museums in Melbourne, Australia

The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia’s oldest, largest and most visited art museum. The National Gallery of Victoria houses an encyclopedic art collection across two sites: NGV International, located on St Kilda Road in the Melbourne Arts Precinct of Southbank, and the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, located nearby … Continue reading [Museum walks] photo album: Museums in Melbourne, Australia

Snap short of visiting MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in Australia. The museum presents antiquities, modern and contemporary art from the David Walsh collection. Walsh has described the museum as a “subversive adult Disneyland.” MONA was officially opened on 21 January 2011. Along … Continue reading Snap short of visiting MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

The Art Impermanence by Samues Leung, 2015

The Art of Impermanence by Samues Leung, 2015 The research explores how an appreciation of the beauty of Japanese aesthetics and aspects of Zen philosophy may be used to consider ideas of impermanence in the art making process of fine art context. Included into the investigation are considerations of the ideas of “consciousness” and “minimalism”, which come directly from my interpretations of the universal ideas … Continue reading The Art Impermanence by Samues Leung, 2015