Contents

004-010 About 3331 Art Chiyoda and my Residency Plan

011-028 1ST Solo Exhibition - THE ART OF IMPERMANCE (30/07 to 01/08, 2016)

029-032 Snapshot of studio practices and art making

033-034 The drawing and calligraphic workshop (25/08, 2016)

036-037 Meeting with Tokyo Wonder Land

038-046 Social activities

047-068 Artwork creation - MAY WAY/ LONG DIARY

069-105 1st Open Studio - TROPICAL SECENERIES (05/09, 2016)

106-127 2nd Solo Exhibition – LINE ON BOARD (17/10 to 20/10,2016)

128- 137 2nd Open Studio – LINE ON BOARD (25/10,2016)

138-170 Art Walk in Tokyo and my favorite artwork capturing

171-204 Snapshot of city tours, hiking and daily biking

205-209 Snapshot of Fanny’s daily cooking

210-212 My favorite cooking for my best friends

213-228 Selective architectures in Tokyo and snapshot

3331 Art Chiyoda - a place to encounter multiple expressions

Based in the renovated Rensei Junior High School 3331 Arts Chiyoda creates a space in which leading artists and creative have the freedom to present their diverse expressions. 3331 brings together cutting edge art with the familiar everyday.

The first floor gallery presents an exciting range of exhibitions highlighting 3331’s unique vision of the art scene 3331 aims to break the barrier of inaccessibility often associated with art museums and instead create an art space which everyone can enter at ease, including a wide range of spaces which visitors can enjoy for free. While walking throughout the arts centre you can sense the creative energy which makes up 3331 through the diverse range of artists and creative practitioners based here.

3331 is an active space hosting a wide range of events and exhibitions and transmitting a new form expression not only as a hub for Tokyo, but also acting as a hub which links Japan’s various regions and that of wider Asia, with the objective of forming an international base for a new kind of art.

The origin of 3331

The name "3331"is the traditional Edo Ippon Tejimehandclap translated into numbers

Traditionally used when people want to share their happiness an encourage each other, the Edo Ippon Tejime is one of the old yet immaterial traditions inherited from the Edo period. When a leading voice says "Iyo'o!"(supposedly a contraction of 「祝おう」iwaou:let’ s celebrate), 3 sets of 3handclaps answer "da-da-da da-da-da da-da-da", adding to become 9,which stands for stress or labor (as「苦」ku:the pain, has a pronunciation similar to「九」kyu, ku:9 ) Then a final single handclap "da" comes to expel all that stress (as a single stroke added to the kanj「九」 transforms it into「丸」maru:the achievement) Taken as a symbol of the Edo Ippon Tej ime,"3331" visually evokes an images of rhythm as well as distilling a sense of people’s gratitude and positive feelings

1 Ote wo haishaku:lit Borrowing[your]hands

2.Iyo'o clap clap clap, clap clap clap, clap clap clap, clap

3.Arigato gozaimashita: thank you Everyone's applause

Residence Period: 2016.07.15-2016.10.29

Residence Project

Samues Leung's residency at 3331 Arts Chiyoda will be kicked off by his debut solo exhibition from July 30 to August 1, and concluded with a second exhibition in October, 2016. Samues will expand his MFA research project by conducting local research and artwork production. He will use experiences from his own life as subject matter from which to develop his new conceptual work, exploring the idea of "less redundancy" in art.

Profile

• Master in Marketing Management (MAMM) Macquarie University

• Master of Fine Arts (MFA) RMIT University

• Master of Arts and Cultural Enterprise, Central Saint Martins, University of Art London

• Art Consultant and Artist

• Base of activity: Hong Kong

• Media: Mixed media installation, photography, painting

Samues Leung has carried out seventeen art projects in multiple disciplines, including painting, performative photography, sculpture and mixed media installation between 2014-15. His current academic research explores how an appreciation of the beauty of Japanese aesthetics (wabi-sabi) and aspects of Zen philosophy may be used to consider ideas of impermanence in the inspiration and art making process within a fine art context.

Samues 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 his interpretations of the universal ideas relating to Wabi-Sabi

The term and philosophies which Wabi-Sabi embraces centre around a holistic way of living and being in the world which embraces ideas of incompleteness, beauty, solitude, imperfection and profundity in life and nature. It aspires to ideas of slowness and simplicity and ultimately authenticity, where the marks and gestures of the passing of time are accepted and revered

Through the research in his Master of Fine Art program, the “Zen” related concept such as “Minimalism”, which encapsulates the idea of “redundancy”, and the ideology of “Solitude” (Sabi) are explored and expressed in different media and contexts, by exploiting various processes and materials to the fullest, which echoes with the questions of his research. Combining these intrinsically related ideas together with his own lived experiences, his artworks in this exhibition attempt to encapsulate the essence of impermanence, through materials and processes across both paintings and more linear sculptural and spatial forms, where cast shadows become as important as the physical form in considerations and meditations on the art of impermanence

レジデンスでの計画

サミューズ・リョンのアーツ千代田3331でのレジデンス滞在では、7月30 日から8月1日までの初個展を皮 切りに、成果報告展としての2回目の展示を2016年10月行う。サミューズは作品の制作と地域研究を行う ことによってMFAでのリサーチを発展させる予定である。

彼は自身の生活から来る経験を主題として使用し、彼の新しいコンセプチュアルなアプローチの作品を発 展させるため、アートにおける「必要最小限」というアイディアについて研究する。

経歴

2015年、RMIT大学 マスターオブファインアーツ (MFA)

ユニバーシティ・オブ・アート・ロンドン セントラル・セント・マーティン マスターオブアーツアンドカルチュラ ルエンタープライズ受験者

アートコンサルタント業・アーティスト

主な活動地域：香港

使用メディア：ミクストメディアによるインスタレーション、写真、絵画

サミューズは2014年から2015年の間、ペインティング、行為を主体とした写真、彫刻、ミクストメディアによ るインスタレーションを含む複数の分野にわたる17個のアートプロジェクトを行っている。彼の近年の学術 的研究調査は、どのように日本の美的感覚(侘び寂び)と禅哲学の観点を理解し、古くより重要視されてき たであろう諸行無常の考えとファインアートのコンテクストの中でアートを生み出す過程についての調査 である。

AIR 3331 Nishikicho Studio