Australian-Chilean artist Juan Davila was born in Oct, 6 1946. He was a painter and at the same times a performance artist. His education was done at University of Chile. There he majored law and fine arts then he started to concentrate on paintings. Through his paintings it is shown that he is concerned with regional identity, living cultures and forms of art that represent cultural identity. He worked primarily with newspaper photographs, advertisements, etc. He was also noted for adapting pop art in an effort to rewrite the international history of painting from a provincial or Third World perspective. Another interesting fact is that he increasingly developed a hybrid pictorial language that refused the strict confines of Modernism or Post-modernism. He is widely known artist and have exhibited in Australia, Europe and South America, returning frequently to his home, Chile. His most famous piece Utopia dealt with fragments, attempting...