The much anticipated official portrait of The Hon. John Brumby, former Premier of Victoria, is now ready to be hung in Queen's Hall, at Victorian Parliament House. An image will be uploaded after the official announcement.
Juan has also been commissioned by Vincent Alessi, Director of La Trobe University Visual Arts Space, Bendigo. The major installation will comprise a forest installed in the gallery, with anamorphic devices. It is entitled The Sleep of Reason, Opening May 10.
On the International front Juan will participate in
The Cosmopolitain Stranger: Hotel de Immigrantes 2, curated by Koen Vanmechelen and Tomasz Wendland, in Hasselt, Belgium. Part of Manifesta 9 (the European Biennale)
Manifesta is the only itinerant european biennial of contemporary art, together with events such as the biennial of Venice and the Documenta in Kassel, Manifesta is one of the foremost art events of Europe.
He is then onto the USA, where he will exhibit at Krause Gallery, Orchard Street Lower East Side, New York City.