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Brisbane motorcycle exhibition to go ahead
August 2, 2020
The Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Queensland has scheduled to open its big motorcycle exhibition late this year.
From 28 November to 26 April, 2021, The Motorcycle will feature more than 100 motorcycles from the 1870s to the present day, right across GOMA’s entire ground floor.
It will run the full design gamut from the earliest 19th century steam-powered motorcycle, the circa 1870 Perreaux Vélocipède à vapeur on loan from Paris, right through to new electric bikes heralding the future, such as the Savic C-Series Alpha (above), a 2020 release from Australian automotive designer Dennis Savic.
Curated by distinguished US-based design curator and physicist (and motorcyclist) Professor Charles M Falco and writer and filmmaker Ultan Guilfoyle in collaboration with QAGOMA, the exhibition explores pioneering motorcycles and classic commuters, off-road bikes and speed machines, as well as custom creations and motorcycle designs of the future.
A cuturual exhibition of this type focussing on motorcycles is unusual, but not unprecedented. The Guggenheim Museum did a similar exercise in 1998, called The Art of the Motorcycle, which became the subject of a book. The Brisbane exhibition will also be the subject of a book authored by Falco, available through GOMA and the publisher Phaidon.
Among the highlights for this show:
A rare 1906 Spencer (above), one of the very earliest Australian motorcycles designed and manufactured in Auchenflower, Brisbane;
A 1920 Indian Scout Munro Special created by the legendary NZ rider Burt Munro;
A 1927 Harley-Davidson FHA 8-valve speedway racer with sidecar;
The 1951 Vincent Black Lightning that set an Australian land speed record in its day and more recently a world record for the highest price paid at auction for a motorcycle;
1916 Indian 8-valve board track racer, a 1974 Ducati 750SS and a 1994 Britten V1000, created by New Zealand design engineer, John Britten;
The 2016 Dakar winning KTM Rally 450 motorcycle ridden by celebrated Australian motorsport champion Toby Price;
Sleek custom objects of desire including the 2016 Black Knight (below) designed by Max Hazan, Bandit 9’s 2016 Eve Mk II, Craig Rodsmith’s 2018 Corps Léger and the 2019 Fuller Moto '2029'.
The exhibition site, which is selling tickets, is here.
Accompanying the exhibition is a major film program screening in the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque that includes classics such as The Great Escape 1963 starring Steve McQueen and contemporary interpretations of motorcycle culture captured in films such as Akira 1988, The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 and Finke: There and Back 2018.
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