Rafael Villares (b. Havana, 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist particularly interested in projects that promote research, collaborations and interventions in public spaces. His work usually looks at the landscape as a redefined concept, built by Culture, closely related to the...
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Rafael Villares (b. Havana,
1989) is a multidisciplinary artist particularly interested in projects that
promote research, collaborations and interventions in public spaces. His work
usually looks at the landscape as a redefined concept, built by Culture,
closely related to the idea of man as the cause and effect of all things. Trough photography,
sound and installations, Villares inverts certain aspects of our surroundings,
taking the sounds of the Havana streets into a nearby forest, or creating a
larger-than-life planter with a park bench and tree, that can be moved from
location to location by means of a truck and crane. Villares studied at the Instituto Superior de
Arte (ISA), the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro and the Centro
Experimental de Artes José Antonio Díaz Peláez. He has exhibited widely in Cuba and internationally, including
the Chazen Museum in Madison, Wisconsin, Museo Nacional
de Arte (MNA), Bolivia and three large scale installations during the past
Havana´s Biennales. He has been and artist in residence at the Vermont Studio
Center, USA and at Vancouver Biennale, Canada. He currently lives and works in
Havana, Cuba.