Rafael Landea

Series

Sabato 18 luglio 1573

The Sighting

1930

Dress Rehearsal Chronicles

The Message

Maps of Silence

Deus ex Machina

La Gesta

My work has a strong narrative element, usually anchored in specific contents that could be: a moment in history, a literature piece, theater, film, music, or architecture. I like to prepare a “set” around the subject, and then explore and play with the possibilities that are going to be discovered during the process.

Murals

Twenty thousand missing seats

Architecture

Law Library

Genova

Illustrations

“The Greeks tells us that Theseus received a thread as a gift from Ariadne. With that thread he found his bearings in the labyrinth, located the Minotaur, and slew him. The myth says nothing about the traces that Theseus left as he made his way through the labyrinth.”

“Freud, Sherlock Holmes, clues and scientific methods”, Carlo Ginzburg.

Videos

the sighting
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The Sighting, Peugeot 404

1930
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1930, Leipzig

e la nave va
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DEM Swimmer

genova . corpi urbani
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Genova

maps of silence
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MOS, Short

the forest
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Redwood trees

the message
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The Message (calendar)

domingos
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Domingos

Anfibia 24 de marzo
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Anfibia 24 de marzo

20,000 missing seats
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20,000 Missing Seats

Rafael Landea

Rafael Landea Artista VisualRafael Landea received his MFA from La Plata University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a 2011 recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant for Individual Artists and he was featured in the 2012 “Our Radar”, Creative Capital database of art projects. His works are included in the public collections at MaM (Museum of Art and Memory), and MPB (Fine Arts Museum Buenos Aires) Argentina. His most recent solo exhibitions were “1930” Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum, “Maps of Silence”, a multimedia installation at the Exploratorium Museum of Art Science and Human Perception in San Francisco, and “Malvinas” Museum Malvinas (ESMA) Buenos Aires. Other solo exhibition venues include Grace Cathedral 1055 Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and, Archimboldo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Group exhibition highlights include “Performance” at Gensler San Francisco, “Madres de Plaza de Mayo” CC Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires. Landea has worked as a set designer and painter for theater in Argentina for more than 15 years. He has also been actively involved in designing and producing murals nationally and internationally; the latest in San Francisco, funded by Artery Project, and collaborations in Turin and Genoa, Italy. In 2019 created two large murals, Architecture University and the Law Library both in La Plata, Argentina. He has created illustrations for magazines and books for important Argentinean publishers as Anfibia, Malisia, EME, Ediciones B, and Universities, the latest in 2021: “Malvinas mi Casa” a book based on a diary written in 1829 in Malvinas/Falklands. Landea was selected for the 2020 Prequalified Artist Pool by San Francisco Arts Commission.