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/ QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY ANNUAL REPORT 05/06
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COLLECTION
DEVELOPMENT
When the Gallery opens its
doors as a two-site
institution, the Gallery will
more than double its display
space across two sites. With
the focus of the original
Gallery building being the
historical collections of pre-
1970 Australian, Asian and
international art, the
Gallery’s contemporary
collections will be displayed
at the Gallery of Modern Art.
During the reporting year,
significant works were
acquired for display at
GoMA and included
Pulverous
2003 by Aernout
Mik,
Substrat 19 1
2003 by
Thomas Ruff, Tobias Putrih’s
Macula A/-5
2005, Roman
Signer’s
Ladder with barrel
2001, and Dinh Q Lê’s
Lotusland
1999. Other
acquisitions included works
by Australian artists Tracey
Moffatt and Gwyn Hanssen
Pigott, Japanese artist
Masami Teraoka and
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
QUEENSLAND ART
GALLERY
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GALLERY OF
MODERN ART
‘TWO SITES, ONE VISION’
OPENING PROGRAM
DEVELOPMENT
Intensive planning for the
opening celebrations
program for the new Gallery
of Modern Art, the
refurbished Queensland Art
Gallery and ‘The 5th
Asia–Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art (APT5)’
was undertaken during the
reporting year. On 2
December, opening
celebration events will be
held across both sites, and
will include artist talks, tours
and keynote speakers,
international guest artists
and performers, and the
APT5 Cinema program.
With the opening of the Queensland Art Gallery’s second site, the Gallery of
Modern Art (GoMA), on 2 December 2006, the focus for the reporting year was
the continued planning of new initiatives for GoMA.
AUSTRALIAN
CINÉMATHÈQUE
In November 2005 the
Gallery’s Australian
Cinémathèque was officially
launched by the Honourable
Rod Welford,
MP
, Minister for
Education and Minister for
the Arts. The event marked
the opening of the
Australian Cinémathèque’s
inaugural exhibition and film
program, ‘Kiss of the Beast’.
The ‘Kiss of the Beast’
exhibition featured over 100
works exploring the imagery
of gorillas, wild beasts and
monsters in art, film,
science, literature and
popular culture from the late
nineteenth century to the
present day, while the film
program presented more
than 30 films, including
iconic monster movies from
the 1930s to 1950s, which
were screened at the Gallery
and South Bank Cinemas.
Several significant
acquisitions by key
filmmakers were made by
the Gallery during the year
including films by Samoan/
New Zealand filmmaker Sima
Urale and internationally
recognised Indian filmmaker
Kumar Shahani.
Roman Signer
Switzerland b.1938
Ladder with barrel
2001
Metal ladder, barrel, balloon, ladder:
274.2 x 35.5 x 5.7cm; barrel: 58.5 x
37.5cm (diam.)
Purchased 2005. The Queensland
Government's special Centenary Fund and
the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation