APT7 Exhibition Report

• Significant acquisitions of works by younger generations of contemporary Indonesian and Vietnamese artists, including Uji Handoko Eko Saputro (aka Hahan), Tintin Wulia, Edwin Roseno, Wedhar Riyadi, Tromarama, Nguyen Thai Tuan, Tiffany Chung, Nguyen Minh Phuo’c, An‑My Lê and The Propeller Group. • Major works by artists from West Asia, a new regional focus for APT7, included Wael Shawky, Erbossyn Meldibekov and Sara Rahbar. These works build on important Collection holdings. • Key works by senior Indigenous Australian artists, including Shirley Macnamara (Indilandji/Alyawarre people), Timothy Cook (Tiwi people) and Lorraine Connelly‑ Northey (Waradgerie people), along with works by younger artists Michael Cook (Bidjara people) and Daniel Boyd (Kudjla/ Gangalu people). • A group of carvings and masks from the Asmat region of Papua, including four dramatic bisj poles and a wuramon spirit canoe. • Takahiro Iwasaki’s stunning wooden sculpture Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss) 2010–12, which replicates a double image of a revered Buddhist temple as if reflected in a pond. This work is now part of the The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art, along with the painting I am a rock 2012 by young Kyoto‑based artist Tomoko Kashiki. A second painting by Kashiki was also acquired, enhancing significantly the Gallery’s holdings of contemporary Japanese art. • Three paintings from New Zealand artist Graham Fletcher’s ‘Lounge Room Tribalism’ series, which depict Pacific objects in the context of domestic interiors, critiquing their circulation and appropriation by Western culture. • Highly respected Taiwanese artist Yuan Goang‑Ming’s video installation Disappearing Landscape – Passing II 2011 was one of the most popular works in APT7, with its powerful reflections on memory and the cycle of life and death. • South Korean artist Gimhongsok’s witty resin sculpture Canine Construction 2009, which playfully references the work of Jeff Koons to comment on the value given to contemporary art. • Phuan Thai Meng’s enormous ten‑metre photorealist painting, which features cut panels that rupture the image and suggest the fallibility of urban progress in his native Kuala Lumpur. • Several acquisitions from Kids’ APT7, gifted by the artists, have added greatly to the Gallery’s collection of interactive projects. These include projects developed by the Children’s Art Centre with Parastou Forouhar, Uji Handoko Eko Saputro (aka Hahan), Tiffany Chung and Kwoma Arts. Installation view of roaming with the dawn – snow drifts, rain falls, desert wind blows 2012 by Tiffany Chung / 4000 glass animals / Commissioned forAPT7 and the Queensland Art Gallery Collection / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery Installation view of Eating grass 2011, I am a rock 2012 and Reverberatory furnace 2012 by Tomoko Kashiki / Eating grass 2011 / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery Installation view of The Luring of [ ] . 流水不腐, 户枢 不蠹 2012 by Phuan Thai Meng / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas mounted on plywood / Commissioned for APT7 and the Queensland Art Gallery Collection / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery 74 apt7 aNd tHe CoLLeCtioN