Juan Davila: Catalogue Raisonn 1961-2023

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Since the early 1970s Juan Davila has used the medium of painting to engage in debates around aesthetics, politics and sexuality, drawing on the rich and varied traditions of Latin and North America, Australia and Europe. Considered as a whole, Davila has produced a uniquely provocative, powerful and influential body of work, raising to high art the visual landscape of popular culture. This catalogue raisonne reproduces all of Davila's work to date - more than 1200 artworks - with volume I covering paintings and volume II containing works on paper, installations and collaborations. Together they demonstrate that Davila's works are not simply reflections of a society awash with images, but a carefully articulated interrogation of the hierarchies applied to cultural material, and by extension, cultures. Davila examines the hidden tensions that lurk in the questionable ethics of contemporary society.

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Juan Davila was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1946 and migrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1974, during a time of great upheaval in his home country. He has worked between the two countries ever since. He studied Law and then Fine Arts at the University of Chile. His work has been exhibited widely, including at CAL Gallery, Santiago, Matucana 100, Santiago, The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla, Le n, Documenta, Kassel, Biennale of Sydney, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra and major retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. Author pic by Mark Ashkanazy