Annual Review 2016

2017 PREVIEW O’KEEFFE, PRESTON, COSSINGTON SMITH: MAKING MODERNISM 11 MARCH – 11 JUNE 2017 | QAG The iconic art of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most significant North American painters of the twentieth century, is showcased alongside modernist masterpieces by pioneering Australian artists Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith. MARVEL: CREATING THE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE 27 MAY – 3 SEPTEMBER 2017 | GOMA Exclusive to GOMA, the largest ever Marvel- related exhibition in an art museum will include original comic books, concept art, film props, costumes and more, bringing to life the interconnected Marvel Cinematic Universe inhabited by Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow and Black Panther. SUNG INTO BEING: ABORIGINAL MASTERWORKS 1984–1994 22 JULY – 22 OCTOBER 2017 | QAG A vital artistic legacy is explored through around 100 works from a period when Aboriginal art began to be more widely appreciated as fine art. Drawn from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection, the exhibition includes work by major Arnhem Land and Kimberley artists at the forefront of an intensely productive moment of art-making. GERHARD RICHTER 14 OCTOBER 2017 – 4 FEBRUARY 2018 | GOMA The first substantial Australian exhibition of works by the German artist, who is widely recognised as one of the world's most influential living painters, will include works from six decades of Richter's practice, among them some of the most compelling and enigmatic pictures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. LEFT Gerhard Richter / Germany b.1932 / Reader (804) 1994 / Oil on canvas / Collection: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / © Gerhard Richter 2016 OPPOSITE ABOVE Adi Granov / Keyframe for Marvel's The Avengers 2012 / © 2017 MARVEL OPPOSITE BELOW Georgia O’Keeffe / 1887–1986 / Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory 1938 / Gift of The Burnett Foundation, Collection: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe RIGHT Rover Thomas / Kukatja/Wangkajunga people 1926–1998 / Untitled c.1987 / Earth pigments and natural binders on canvas / Janet Holmes à Court Collection / © Rover Thomas. Licensed by Viscopy, 2017 66 ▼  REVIEW 2016 REVIEW 2016 ▼ 67 2017 PREVIEW 2017 PREVIEW