Florentino Laime Mantilla, ¡Sunqu Waqachiq! / ¡El Que Hace Llorar El Corazon!
Florentino Laime Mantilla
1960-
Quechua
Date
1998
Medium Specific
Watercolor on paper
Classification
Painting
Accession Number
1998.20.15.01
Biography
Florentino Laime Mantilla (b.1960) is a Quechua artist born in the village of Wakuyo, in the province of Chumbivilcas, southern Peru. He studied at the Diego Quispe Tito School of Advanced Studies of Fine Art in Cuzco and in 1998 served a four-month residency in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis through the Rockefeller Foundation Visiting Indigenous Artists-in-Residence Program.
Alongside his art practice, Laime Mantilla served as Mayor of the City of Santo Tomas, in the province of Chumbivilicas, from 1999-2002, where he undertook projects in social services and economic development for the benefit of the indigenous community. His political perspectives are visually embedded in his artwork through the preservation and empowerment of Andean cultural and political histories and the representation of indigenous experience. His paintings and drawings reflect a balance of violence and kindness, life and death, shadow and light, love and hate, the forces of nature, and the fragile nature of spirits. Laime Mantilla's originality is derived from his unique fusion of light and color. He portrays Quechua community events and feast days in much of his work employing a palette of brilliant reds, purples, blues and yellows, distinctly characterized by his use of geometric planes and pointillism.
Laime Mantilla has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US, Peru and France.
Alongside his art practice, Laime Mantilla served as Mayor of the City of Santo Tomas, in the province of Chumbivilicas, from 1999-2002, where he undertook projects in social services and economic development for the benefit of the indigenous community. His political perspectives are visually embedded in his artwork through the preservation and empowerment of Andean cultural and political histories and the representation of indigenous experience. His paintings and drawings reflect a balance of violence and kindness, life and death, shadow and light, love and hate, the forces of nature, and the fragile nature of spirits. Laime Mantilla's originality is derived from his unique fusion of light and color. He portrays Quechua community events and feast days in much of his work employing a palette of brilliant reds, purples, blues and yellows, distinctly characterized by his use of geometric planes and pointillism.
Laime Mantilla has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US, Peru and France.