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Details
- Date
- 1990
- Media category
- Mixed media painting
- Materials used
- oil, collage on canvas
- Dimensions
- 280.0 x 434.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with assistance from the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 1992
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 299.1992
- Copyright
- Unable to display image due to copyright restrictions
- Artist information
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Juan Davila
Works in the collection
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About
Originally from Santiago, Chile, Juan Davila arrived in Australia in 1974 and lives in Melbourne. Well-known for the confrontational content of his paintings and installations that juxtapose pseudo-pornographic scenes with references to famous figures in high art and culture, Davila's main concern is to highlight the political, economic and sexual identities that differ across cultures. The patchwork style of his painting, 'Mexicanismo' 1990, questions the clichéd representation of Third World cultures as "exotic" and invokes the consumer excess of the developed world. Typical of Davila's work are the references to popular culture, kitsch, craft and American modernism, suggesting that identity itself is in a state of continual evolution and subject to the forces of dominant cultural models.
Art Gallery Handbook, 1994.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Juan Davila, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, 18 Sep 1991–05 Oct 1991
America: Bride of the Sun, 500 Years Latin America and the Low Countries, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, 02 Feb 1992–31 May 1992
Juan Davila Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 09 Sep 2006–12 Nov 2006
Juan Davila Exhibition, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 30 Nov 2006–04 Feb 2007
Juan Davila Exhibition, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 01 Aug 2007–31 Aug 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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George Alexander, Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, 'Popism and screen culture', pg.204-245, Sydney, 2006, 220, 221 (colour illus.).
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Anthony Bond and Victoria Lynn, AGNSW Collections, 'Contemporary Practice - Here, There, Everywhere ...', pg. 229-285, Sydney, 1994, 285 (colour illus.).
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Guy Brett, Juan Davila, 'Nothing has been settled', pg.2-23, 2006, 8, 9 (colour illus.), 18, 142-3 (colour illus.). fig.9, pl.52. Fig 9 is an installation view
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Alan McCulloch and Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, St Leonards, 1994, 774 (colour illus.).
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Charles Merewether, The boundary rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney, 'Fabricating Mythologies: the Art of Bricolage', pg. 20-24, Sydney, 1992, 22 (colour illus.).
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Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, America: Bride of the Sun, 500 years Latin America and the Low Countries, Unknown, 1992, 248 (colour illus.). cat.no. 4
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