Rafael Hastings
Rafael Hastings (Lima, 1942–2020) was a multidisciplinary artist who revolutionised the Peruvian art scene during the 1970s.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he forged important links with figures such as Maurice Béjart and Jean-Luc Godard, who organised his first solo exhibition in 1967. In the 1970s, Hastings produced a significant body of conceptual art and, in Peru, created ten audiovisual works.
His work questioned the boundaries between artistic disciplines, treating his different media as “distinct forms of expression within the same process”. It spanned painting, video, film, performance and poetry.
From the 1980s onwards, Hastings became deeply involved in choreography and performance projects, some in collaboration with his partner, the dancer and choreographer Yvonne von Mollendorff.
Among his nearly 100 solo exhibitions, the following stand out: exhibitions at the Workers’ Palace in Beijing (1999) and in Nagoya, Japan, and the creation of the longest mural in the Americas at the University of Trujillo, a project that took 18 years to complete.
