Juan Davila

Exhibition

3 Artists / 3 Rooms

An installation of site-specific works by Melbourne artists Howard Arkley, Juan Davila and David Larwill. Each artist was given a room in the un-renovated Dallas Brooks Drive building and invited to paint as they desired. The project generated a great deal of public interest in the forthcoming...
Exhibition

You Are Here

An exhibition from the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane that explored the relationship between self and sexuality, identity and representation. AGLASSOFWATER Project Curated by Luke Roberts and Scott Redford Exhibiting Artists: Leonard Brown, Peter Cooley, Juan Davila, Brent Harris...
Exhibition

To the Pure All Things are Pure: Moral Censorship and the Visual Arts

A survey exhibition of artworks affected by censorship which generated much interest and debate in the press. The foreword for the exhibition catalogue was written by Justice Michael Kirby.Curated by Alison CarrollExhibiting artists: Arthur Boyd, Mike Brown, Juan Davila, Jules...
Exhibition

Paul Taylor Memorial

...from Taylor’s private collection. Exhibiting Artists: Howard Arkley, Joseph Beuys, Juan Davila, Keith Haring, Joseph Kosuth, Maria Kozic & Philip Brophy, Sherrie Levine, Simon Linke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Morris, Peter Nagy, Mike Parr, Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, Vivienne Shark...
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1992

...memorials for both Taylor and Mora, and hosted an exhibition of Paul Taylor’s private art collection that included works by Cindy Sherman, Juan Davila, Joseph Kosuth, Mike Parr and Robert Rauschenberg. In 1992 ACCA also presented a talk by visiting international artist, Glen Baxter, who’s cartoon-like...
Podcast

Defining Moments: Popism by Judy Annear

...and the artists (Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Ian Cox, Juan Davila, Richard Dunn, Paul Fletcher, Maria Kozic, Robert Rooney, Jane Stevenson, The Society for Other Photography, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, and Tsk Tsk Tsk), provide some background and context to the ideas and practices...
Podcast

Defining Moments: Popism by Judy Annear

...and the artists (Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Ian Cox, Juan Davila, Richard Dunn, Paul Fletcher, Maria Kozic, Robert Rooney, Jane Stevenson, The Society for Other Photography, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, and Tsk Tsk Tsk), provide some background and context to the ideas and practices...
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Rewind: Paul Taylor

Kozic, Peter Tyndall and Philip Brophy, Juan Davila, Linda Marrinon, Imants Tillers and Tony Clark among others. The list included nearly all the important practices of the time.Paul articulated their ideas through ART&TEXT, his homegrown journal that built upon the articles and interviews he...
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Events

John Giorno and Bernard Heidsieck performance flyer           FORUM: ‘Transgression and the Culture Industry’, part of the Gordon Darling Foundation Seminars 1995.Speakers: Lesley Stern, Rex Butler, Juan Davila, David Halperin...
Video

Defining Moments: POPISM with Judy Annear

...little connection to the local art scene or experimental practice. POPISM came like a bolt from the blue, hard on the heels of the first five issues of Art &Text. This lecture will discuss the exhibition and the artists (Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Ian Cox, Juan Davila, Richard Dunn, Paul...
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Rewind: Visual Tension

...editing Tension, I was making ends meet by working at ACCA. One of the first projects I was involved with was the Three Room project by Howard Arkley, David Larwill and Juan Davila. It was, presumably, a deliberately provocative act by John Buckley. Larwill was staunchly...
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ACCA History

Juan Davila and Howard Arkley were each given a room to paint however they wished.  Press at the time called it a ‘contemporary art explosion’. Since then ACCA has launched thousands of new programs and forged ahead with a maverick spirit and a passion to promote contemporary Australian...
Program

Defining Moments: Popism at the National Gallery of Victoria 1982

...the exhibition and the artists (Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Ian Cox, Juan Davila, Richard Dunn, Paul Fletcher, Maria Kozic, Robert Rooney, Jane Stevenson, The Society for Other Photography, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, and Tsk Tsk Tsk), provide some background and context to the ideas...
Press Release

ACCA celebrates its 30th year reliving the past, and looking to the future…

...nbsp; For ACCA’s first exhibition 3 Artists, 3 Rooms, David Larwill, Juan Davila and Howard Arkley were each given a room in the Domain cottage to paint however they wished.  Press at the time called it a ‘contemporary art explosion’. Since...
Press Release

Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1968-1999

...publication Art&Text, the exhibition was a provocative and rhetorical manifesto for a new generation, with works by Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Juan Davila and Maria Kozic to name a few. Judy Annear’s lecture will be available on May 25, and will be followed in July with Recession art...
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Rewind: The final count down

...12 months of operation, under the guidance of independent curator John Buckley, ACCA hosted a rising international art star (Keith Haring), brought together three of Melbourne’s hottest young artistic talents (David Larwill, Juan Davila and Howard Arkley), and delivered an exhibition...
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A Conversation with Jenepher Duncan

Harold Boihem, John Hughes, Johan Grimonprez, Philip Brophy and the experimental Chilean filmmaker, Raul Ruiz, due to Juan Davila’s good offices. We made the most of opportunities offered by international visitors to the Sydney Biennales and the Asia Pacific Triennials, such as Border Art...
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Monstrous Patchwork: Paul Yore’s Textile Politics by Helen Hughes

...the work of artists he identifies as kin. These include: the Chilean-Australian Juan Davila, whose works share with Yore’s a strong anti-nationalist sentiment, a tendency towards the iconoclastic, the borrowing of religious imagery relating to the Catholic church and the baroque, along...