The John Kaldor Family Collection

 The gallery of NSW is now holding Australia's most comprehensive representation of contemporary art from 1960 till now. And in May 2011, they opened their new contemporary galleries, featuring the John Kaldor Family Gallery. In 1968, the textile businessman and art collector John Kaldor invited Jeanne Claude and Christo to Australia to wrap the rocky coast of Little Bay in Sydney.

For more than 50 years, John Kaldor has been Australia’s most passionate collector of international contemporary art, developing lasting relationships with some of the most important artists of our time. More recently, Kaldor has donated his family's personal collection of more than 200 works to the art galler of New South Wales in Sydney. The 200 works include in-depth representation of christp and Jeanne-Claude, Jeff Koons ,Sol LeWitt, , Robert Rauschenberg and Ugo Rondinone also among others. There’s also a focus on Pop art and a strong thread of German photography including some excellent works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gurksy and Thomas Demand.These works spanning 50 years of works from the leading artists of our time.

The collection of John Kaldor Family has done a great donation for the NSW Gallery, The first display from the Kaldor Collection features works by Robert Rauschenberg, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Donald Judd, Carl Andre and others, moreover it will be a number of commissioned and newly installed site-specific artworks, including five vast installation by Ugo Rondinone. A lot of major works would also be shown from artists such as Jannis Kounellis, Mike Parr, Anselm Kiefer, Doris Salcedo, Rosemary.....