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Current Exhibitions
 Yayoi Kusama Narcissus garden (detail) 1966/2002. Site-specific work. Watermall: 1200 x 2400 x 30cm.Mirror balls: approx. 2000, 18cm diameter each. Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2002 Queensland Art Gallery. Collection: The artist. |
Asia-PacificTriennial of Contemporary Art 2002
12 September 2002 – 27 January 2003
The Queensland Art Gallery's flagship contemporary art event, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, returns to the Gallery in September 2002.
APT 2002 will focus attention on the important contribution of artists from Asia and the Pacific within the contemporary art arena, and continue to build on the innovation, diversity and success of the previous Triennials. Work exhibited will range from the meditative and quietly engaging to the challenging and spectacular.
For the first time in Australia, APT 2002 will offer audiences in-depth perspectives on a select group of highly influential and innovative artists who have made an outstanding contribution to contemporary art over the last three decades. The popular Kids¹ APT will return as part of APT 2002, promising even more creative and unique family experiences in the Gallery.
Explore APT 2002 online at the official exhibition website:
 The Master of Frankfurt The Netherlands 1460–c.1520–33 Virgin and Child with Saint James the Pilgrim, Saint Catherine and the Donor with Saint Peter (detail) c.1496.Oil on oak panel. 69 x 55.2cm. Purchased 1980 with funds from Utah Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery. Photograph: Ray Fulton |
Pentimento: The Master of Frankfurt¹s ‘Virgin and Child'
6 December 2002 – 8 April 2003
Gallery 17 (Free Entry)
The term pentimento derives from the Italian 'to repent'; it is also a technical term that describes the evidence of an artist¹s changes to a painting.
The exhibition reveals the fascinating history of this painting, a fifteenth-century Netherlandish work from the Collection, and considers its role in the practices of religious repentance. It is complemented by additional sacred works from the Collection and exquisite, illuminated manuscripts from several Australian collections.
Conservation work has revealed that the artist made significant changes, or pentimenti, before completing the painting; they are disclosed in the exhibition through X-ray and infra-red imaging. The history of the painting's custody is also uncovered, including its confiscation by the Nazi party for Hitler's art museum. Research into the history of the Gallery's paintings has been undertaken as part of a project to research the Nazi-era provenance of works in the Collection and resolve any potential issues of ownership.
A booklet about the painting will be available from the Gallery Store.
More information about the examination of the painting by the Master of Frankfurt.
More information about the provenance of the painting by the Master of Frankfurt.
Public programs associated with the 'Pentimento' exhibition
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