HAND/EYE visits Peru for a look at everything from pre-Inca textiles to contemporary upcycled fashion. Our most beautiful issue yet! This article include an article about Maximo Laura

Peruvian artist Maximo Lauro creates large, spell-binding tapestries of rich color and fantastic imagery of life under the sea. In the past 25 years, his works have been shown in…

Maximo Laura is an award-winning weaver among the best known and most respected in South America. His tapestries are part of the most important public and private collections in the…

Maximo exhibited in the 2012 Festival exhibition Myth Making at The Display Area at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre in Oakville, Ontario.

“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…