Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

/ SOLUTION: Only just ... A STEEL radial w,th a difference rolled - wirh much difficulty - into the foyer of the M ,I.M. building at noon ye5terdoy. The " radial," o ma1Slvo black sculpture of pure steel, took workers more than an hour to manoeuvre Into position. "Great Planet," a contemporary sculpture by Victorian artist Inge King, weighs 720kg and got through the 235cm doorway by a centimetre. Queensland Art Gallery director (Mr. Raoul Mel– lish) said the gallery bought the $18,000 work in May this year, in anticipation of the needs of the now gallery to be opened on the south bonk In about Juno, 1981, then. It will be housed in the M.l,M. building foyer until n the filth floor was too far away for the culpture, then the ground floor 1Jlf tur we .. \.,t L~ .. ~ • " ... .,. , .. , "'"' ,.