Rafael Landea

Marco Polo

“Kublai Jan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young

Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his…”
Invisibles Cities by Italo Calvino

Perhaps there aren’t a political history or collective creations, or love stories that haven’t been told before, the “Marco Polo” series depicts some classical, great stories that have been transformed into theatre and became paradigms of certain human destinies.
William Shakespeare & Giuseppe Verdi (Macbeth), Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm & Engelbert Humperdinck, (Hänsel und Gretel), Robin Maugham & Harold Pinter (The servant), Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes & Luis Bonfa (Black Orpheus), Henrik Ibsen & Edvard Grieg (Peer Gynt), Johann Wolfgang Goethe & Jules Massenet (The sorrows of young Werther).
the servant

The Servant

macbeth

Macbeth

Hansel and Gretel
Macbeth
Orpheus
The Servant
Peer Gynt
Werther
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Rafael Landea

Rafael Landea Artista Visual

A visual artist, Rafael Landea creates paintings and drawings in both traditional and digital media. His artistic style was greatly influenced by an early job as a theater stage designer resulting in artistic interpretations which are deeply narrative and inspired by historical facts, literature, theater, films, music and architecture.
His work has been recognized by institutions such as the San Francisco Arts Commission, Artery Project and Center for Cultural Innovation, plus was featured at Our Radar by Creative Capital New York.

He has shown his paintings at venues worldwide, including:

  • San Francisco, California: The Exploratorium, Grace Cathedral Gallery, Gensler Design.
  • Buenos Aires: Holocaust Museum, Malvinas Museum, Art and Memory Museum and Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti.
  • Participated in collective exhibitions in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Cuba.

Rafael’s murals can be seen today in Buenos Aires, La Plata and San Francisco. He was lead artistic collaborator on Munú Actis Goretta’s mosaic murals near Turin and in Genoa, Italy.

Rafael has developed illustrations media and publishers in Argentina including Anfibia, Malisia, EME Ediciones B and Universities.

Rafael received his MFA at La Plata University, Argentina and developed his professional career between Buenos Aires and San Francisco. Rafael moved to Catalonia, Spain in 2024

He is developing a digital series inspired by the lives of two Native American men from opposite regions in north and south America, whose stories and destinies present surprising similarities.

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