The four solo survey exhibitions currently staged at NGV Australia as its Summer 2017–18 program emphatically delineate the institution’s position on contemporary art. While the juxtaposition is headily abrasive, the aggregate speaks of certain attributes that it is keen to foreground. Contemporary art, embodied by this ensemble, is spectacular and behemothic, vivid and kaleidoscopic. The works are resolutely tactile, each of the artists invested in fastidiously worked materials. A cornucopia of worlds unfold, concentrated in shimmering patterns that march across painted surfaces, obliterate depth of field, draw out the sculptural properties of layered paper, or collapse architectonic space into implausible folds.