Rafael Villares

Respirar, 2010

Enviroment (LED Light, AC/DC fluctuation sensor, cracked dirt, sound system), 120 x 180 cm.


  • In the year 2009, the young creator Rafael Villares obtained the Creation Scholarship Estudio 21 granted by the Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV, according to its acronyms in Spanish). As part of the prize, he had the chance to materialize the artistic project that made him the winner in an exhibition opened in 2010 in one of the halls of the aforementioned institution of Cuban visual arts. Rafael Villares is one of the most talented young artists who are writing the most recent pages in Cuban art.
  • Contemporary art, then, considered as a non-conformist, critical activity, is a post-conceptual art of series and ephemeral categorizations (“mediations”).