After the closure of Kaliman Gallery in Sydney the future of Vasili Kaliman‘s art career was the subject of wide and varied speculation. Would he reopen a gallery in Sydney? Would he travel to New York to become a barista? Would he spend the rest of his life in his pajamas watching all seven seasons of The Sopranos over and over?
Art will go in here.
In September last year Michael Reid‘s website announced that Kaliman and Reid would join forces to open a secondary market gallery. “The proposed new gallery will focus on Australian, Aboriginal and International art with an emphasis on works from the 1980s onwards” they said, but whatever happened to that?
Well, in move that sure to surprise many Kaliman has today announced a new venture, not in Sydney, but in Melbourne with Jarrod and Tara Rawlins of Uplands Gallery fame. The announcement declared:
“After 10 years operating Kaliman Gallery in Sydney which closed in 2010, Vasili Kaliman has relocated to Melbourne. He is pleased to announce the opening of a new gallery – KALIMANRAWLINS – a partnership with Jarrod & Tara Rawlins of Uplands Gallery, which has operated in Melbourne since 2001 and will end its program in April this year. KALIMANRAWLINS will open in Melbourne in July 2011. The gallery will operate a full program across two exhibition spaces in the one building. Full details of the KALIMANRAWLINS program will be announced at the July launch.”
They have a website and everything.
i am near uplands gallery in prahran, and have bought from kalimans in the past so please keep me informed and dont display my email
thanks
leah and david freilich
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Yeah, his new gig in Melbourne looks interesting. Will have to follow it via the web as I am sure not to get down to Melbourne as often as I visited his space in paddo.
But in all these new gallery moves and associated press releases did you notice the comments of former Kaliman Gallery manager Adam Sims (who is opening a gallery backed by an auction house) ….
““I actually don’t like seeing collectors throw their money away,” he says when asked why there’ll be no younger artists on the roster. Instead, his interest is in “the best, the most serious” modern and contemporary art.”
http://www.artcollector.net.au/DeutscherHackettsownerslaunchnewgallery
The gallery hasn’t even opened and he’s already losing credibility – he obviously enjoyed his time at Kaliman!
Cheers, D-Train
Dear Art Life,
In reference to your rather snide comment;
“In September last year Michael Reid’s website announced that Kaliman and Reid would join forces to open a secondary market gallery. “The proposed new gallery will focus on Australian, Aboriginal and International art with an emphasis on works from the 1980s onwards” they said, but whatever happened to that?”
If you had indeed quoted the announcement in full you would have revealed that Vasili Kaliman & I are planning to opening a secondary market gallery [web based for those that asked], “in early 2011” It is after all, only the 24th of February.
If someone had bother to call and ask- and hey do not let fact checking get in the way of uniformed comment- they would have been told that this is still the case.
Vasili, as he has always stated he could do, is opening another space in another city & I am organising my John Young / Khai Liew exhibition; involved as an Art Advocate for Art Month & launching a new art transport service for clients. We are busy, and moving forward.
If you have any other factual issues, please call me. If you whish to defame me through ridicule- please call my lawyer, Tom Hollo at Henry Davis York.
No snideness was meant Mr. Reid, simply a good humored question, which you have answered in full. No need to go to the mattresses – AF
And how about now? It is July…
KALIMANRAWLINS opened in Melbourne last week.