Manuel Piña: Architect of Dreams and Urban Landscapes Manuel Elías Piña Reyes, known simply as Manuel Piña, is a Venezuelan artist whose work transcends the boundaries of traditional sculpture and installation art. Born in Venezuela in 1987, Piña’s career began not with brushes or chisels, but with baseball – he was a professional catcher in Major League Baseball for several teams including the Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, and Oakland Athletics. This seemingly disparate background—the precision of athletic movement versus the deliberate construction of art—forms th…