Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1993-94

The First • ASI - . -WIFIC ASIA-PACIFIC Asia-Pacific Triennial CONTEMPORARY Af" FIC ASIA-PACIF C TRIENNIART,AL TRIENNIAL TRIENNIAL TRIENNIAL o f Cont emporary Art The first 'Asia-Pacific Triennial of f MUM 0 By I C o n t e m p o r a r y Art held at the I Q u e e n s l a n d Art Gallery from .1 I 18 September to 5 December I 1993 and attended by more than / 4UNOANURA J 6 0 0 0 0 people, proved to be a AIRUnEs groundbreaking event linking the H I T A C H I contemporary art of Australasia, • g- Asia and the Pacific. The first Asia- Pacific Triennial brought together 121 nearly 2 0 0 recent works 0f art including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, - - - performance and installation. Seventy-six artists were represented - - . - -'arn - ' from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, T h e P r e m i e r o f Queensland, Malaysia New Zealand Papua New t h e Hon. W a y n e Goss, MLA; his Excellency Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, M r S a b a m P a n d a p o t a n Siagian, / \ Thailand and Vietnam. In terms of A m b a s s a d o r o f t h e Republic o f / i exhibition size number of countries Indonesia; M r Richard Austin, O B E , A C h a i r m a n o f Trustees; represented, diversity of works lv M r M a x B o u r k e , General M a n a g e r , J, . included, and organisational A u s t r a l i a Council; a n d M r D o u g Hall, . logistics the Asia-Pacific Triennial j j l D i r e c t o r , a t t h e opening o f the Asia-Pacific Triennial. ft was the most extensive and intellectually demanding project ever undertaken by the Gallery. The Gallery undertook the Asia- - Pacific Triennial to introduce f / j - . • . Australian audiences to the diverse V L . i i / I I I and dynamic contemporary art • I U I i,:. of the region. Other aims were to < & ' ! i.'c4s i •i i increase cultural understanding and establish a framework for further cultural exchanges. The Asia-Pacific Triennial provides a forum for continuing dialogue and \ \ enables building of professional f r e l a t i o n s h i p s . The next two exhibitions in the Asia-Pacific \ J Triennial are to be held in 1996 \\ ij and 1999. T u f f e r y , Michel In preparation for the first N e w Z e a l a n d b.1966 V a k a f a u a t u l u Asia-Pacific Triennial, a National (Family b o a t no. 3 ) 1 9 9 3 Advisory Committee was formed. 12