Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1991-92

I NTERNAT I ONAL PROGRAMS 'Seven Master Printmakers: Innovations in the Triennial will focus on the most recent Pictured at the opening Eighties was officially opened by Mr Richard developments in art of the Asia-Pacific region and of 'Secret Treasures of Russia...' are (from left): Woolcott, AO, on the evening of Tuesday 14 April. will include the most exciting and innovative Mr Richard Austin, OBE, The Gallery was delighted to host the Australian contemporary art. Chairman of Trustees; launch of this exhibition in the presence of The National Consultative Committee for the Mr Doug Hall, Director; members of the International Council of the Triennial consists of Mr Doug Hall, Director, Professor Boris Christa, former Head, Museum of Modern Art, New York, who were in Queensland A r t Gallery; Dr Caroline Turner, Department of Russian, Australia for their annual meeting. Fifty-five Deputy Director & Manager, International University of exceptional prints toured Australia under the Programs, Queensland A r t Gallery; Mr David Queensland; Dr Alekxander Shkurko, auspices of the Council and represented the Williams, Director, Canberra College of Art; Mr artists Jim Dine, David Hockney, jasper Johns, Roy Neil Manton, Director, SEAP Program, Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Cultural -, Rosenquist and Frank Stella. The monumental Relations Branch; and Ms Alison Carroll, Visual scale and intense colour of many of the images in Arts Consultant, Asialink. During the year the . this exhibition were made possible by Committee met in Brisbane and Melbourne and r technological advances in the past decade. also held an off-shore meeting in Kuala Lumpur in r - JWa 'The Urban Bonsai: Contemporary Japanese November 1991, when it was joined by South-East Prints' included works by seventy-five Asian advisers. "1 7 contemporary Japanese printmakers and was The curatorial philosophy of the Triennial i. organised by the College Women's Association of recognises the diversity of the region, the Japan in association with the Art Gallery of New diversity within each nation, and the dynamism of , 4 - - ' - 1 1 / • -"i South Wales. The exhibition was officially opened the contemporary art of the region. In by Mr Shigetaka Ishihara, Consul General of Japan, collaboration with specialist advisers in each on 3 March. country, Australian selectors are undertaking André Kertész: Form and Feeling' was officially selection of works for the first exhibition in 1993. Deputy Minister of opened on 14 February 1992. The photographs During the year the Gallery received a major Culture Russian exhibited spanned Kertész's work during the grant for the project of $60 000 from the Federation; the Hon. years 1914 to 1972 and came from the important Australia Council. Wayne Goss, MLA, collection of Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, Gallery staff visited several countries as part of Premier and Minister for Economic and Trade Missouri. the preliminary stages of the selection process. Development and Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Visits were: Director to China, Korea and Japan; Minister for the Arts; A r t Deputy Director & Manager, International and Professor Elvin A major focus for the year was work associated Programs to Malaysia and Indonesia; Senior Kalinin, Chairman of the Board, Russian with the inaugural Asia-Pacific Triennial...' in 1993. Exhibitions Officer to the Philippines and Charitable Foundation Since the announcement, considerable interest in Malaysia; Manager, Public Programs to Papua 'Intellect'. this important project has been generated New Guinea; Curator, Prints, Drawings & throughout the region. Photographs to Thailand; Associate Curator, An internationally significant arts event, it Prints, Drawings & Photographs to China. These has already focused national and international visits were financially supported by the attention on Queensland as the host State. It will Queensland A r t Gallery's Exhibitions be the first major ongoing series of exhibitions by Development Fund and a major grant from the an Australian State Gallery to explore the Australia Council. contemporary art of the Asia-Pacific region. The The Gallery is liaising with the Queensland 29