MAXIMO LAURA
Internationally known Peruvian Weaver
“Tapestry-making requires a progressive, slow and irreversible system of work that allows for the miniscule, patient and intimate meeting of technical and visual solutions, leading to the opening of an infinite repertoire of possibility subjected to the communicative intentionality of the work.
In my case, I look for a language that emanates spirituality, aesthetic beauty and lyricism.
I try to submit myself to the limitations of the materials and to the requirements of the act of creation, under the light of an obsessive taste that will, in the end, reflect a cultural and textile connotation that is typically Peruvian.”
Senor Laura’s tapestries can be found in public and private collections around the world.
National Museum of Peruvian Culture, Lima, PERU
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC, USA
The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Headquarters of United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO), Paris, FRANCE
Iberoamerican Museum of Craft, Puerto La Cruz, VENEZUELA
Museum of the Americas, Miami, USA
Museum of Craft, Jyvaskyla, FINLAND
Museum of Iberoamerican Crafts, La Orotava, Tenerife, SPAIN
The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, LATVIA
Torre Tagle Palace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru, Lima, PERU
Word Textile Art Organization, Miami, USA
Museum of Art and Popular Traditions of Riva Agüero Institute, Lima, PERU
Andean Institute of Folk Arts Andrés Bello, Quito, ECUADOR
Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Integration and International Trade Negotiations, Lima, PERU
Interamerican Center of Craft and Folk Arts, Cuenca, ECUADOR
Iberoamerican Association for the Development and Marketing Crafts, Lima, PERU
Ricardo Palma Private University, Lima, PERU
Embassy of Peru – Washington DC, USA
Embassy of Peru, Quito, ECUADOR
Embassy of Peru, Asunción, PARAGUAY
Embassy of Peru, Helsinki, FINLAND
Former President of Latvia Ms Vaira Vike-Freiberga, LATVIA
