Juan Davila (Chilean/Australian, born 1946)

GOD AND COUNTRY, 1989

colour screenprint

49.0 x 96.0 cm (image)
80.0 x 124.0 cm (sheet)
98.0 x 141.5 cm (frame)

edition: 13/20
signed, dated and inscribed with title and number below image: 13/20 "God and Country" Juan Davila 1989

Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
John Buckley collection, Melbourne
Mossgreen, Melbourne, 13 May 2014, lot 33
Shannon Bennett, Melbourne

Juan Davila Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 9 September – 12 November 2006, then touring to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 November 2006 – 4 February 2007 (another example)
Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 11 April – 1 September 2013 (another example)

Brett, G. and Benjamin, R., Juan Davila, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, pl. 119, p. 228 (illus., another example)
Cotterell, S., ‘Review of Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style’, Fusion Journal, no. 2, 2013, p. 4 (another example)

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the State Library Victoria, Melbourne.
This image was reproduced at a larger size on a billboard as part of Add Magic: A National Billboard Project, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney in association with the Biennale of Sydney, 1990. Photographic documentation is published in Brett, G. and Benjamin, R., Juan Davila, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, pl. 120, p. 229