2011/09/24
Maximo Laura (Peru) personal exhibition.
Laura produces tapestries is his own workshop, woven by a very specialized team of weavers trained in his own technique, either in small series or as part of his permanent production. Besides having commissions he is involved in teaching and training of colleagues. One-offs and “museum pieces” are woven by the artist himself and finished by his personal assistants. All tapestries are made from Peruvian alpaca wool and chemically dyed wool and dyestuff are from industrial production. His working method, using multiple coloured threads in one weft, is very similar to that of the Aubusson technique, except that Laura uses a third dimension, a surface texture that produces a greater expression. Currently he is working on wall-filling murals, but for Kaunas and the intimate “Museum of the Devil” he has chosen a series of smaller tapestries showing a contemporary Andean view on everyday life. More information.
The Association of TEXERE resulted from the first ever European conference for people involved in Textiles Education at all levels in 1990 in Kehl, Germany. It was organised by the German association Fachverband Textilunterricht, who had invited over 600 representatives of schools and universities from all over Europe. As a result, a group of us decided to form a European textiles teaching association. After meetings in Gothenberg and Helsinki we finally formed the group TEXERE, Textiles Education and Research in Europe, which included textiles education research which is important in Scandinavian countries.
Curator: Patricia Christy.
Participants: Marianne Puschner & students of BAKIP Secondary school (Austria), Julia Astreou (Cyprus), Caroline McNamara and “Seamless”group (England), Patricia Christy and members of the Octopus Creative Textiles group (England), Pamela Hardesty and students of Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork (Ireland), Renata Pompas and digital textiles students at AFOL MODA, Milano (Italy), Hanny Spierenburg and Breed Textiel Overleg (Netherlands), Cathryn Amidei and Y Collective – students at the School of Technology at Eastern Michigan University, (USA).
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