Juan Davila
(Chile, Australia 06 Oct 1946– )
Mexicanismo
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
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.
- Year
- 1990
- Media
- Mixed media painting
- Medium
- oil, collage on canvas
- Dimensions
- 280.0 x 434.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with assistance from the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 1992
- Accession number
- 299.1992
- Copyright
- Unable to display image due to copyright restrictions
