KUYCHI - THE SON OF THE RAINBOW 🌈

         

 Photo: Alexander Pérez 

 

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Welcome to the KUYCHI Experience - The Son of the Rainbow

Before reading we invite you to listen to this audio, sit comfortably, close your eyes and listen carefully.
We will transport you to the magic of the



 Listen to Kuychi myth from YouTube
 

 

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Collab  (Trini Ramos, Griela Pérez y Esther Yaurivilca)

 

3 plastic artists decide to explore together a ceramic piece based on an Andean myth by Tania Castro called "Kuychi".
Griela PĂ©rez together with her daughter Agustina Tomasevich make a painting (oil on canvas) reinterpreting the myth, it is Trini Ramos who gives it retablist volumetry with great thoroughness, patience and passion, preserving their craft techniques and with the support of the talented Esther Yaurivilca in the painting of the exterior of the altarpiece give life to this beautiful collaboration, which invites you to take refuge in the magical embrace of the Andes.

Wooden altarpiece measures: 28 cm x 26 cm x 10 cm ( 11" x 10.24" x 3.94")

What is MITO Project?

 

It is a multidisciplinary Peruvian project that seeks to rescue magical stories of the popular imaginary, through craft techniques in collaboration with artists, artisans and designers.
It happens 3 times a year around the world, in pop-up format with a duration of 4 months and launches its first edition in THE CANVAS BOWERY - NY.
Curated by Yurac Fiedler and Justo Bejar with the support of the Sustainable Fashion Association of Peru.


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BIO

 

 

Trini Ramos, Sculptor Artist
Popular artist born in the beautiful Huamanga - Ayacucho. She inherited the vocation and art of the Ayacucho altarpiece from her father, whom she accompanied to the churches to restore images. His work recreates the traditional style to develop his own language.

 

 

 

 

Griela PĂ©rez, Art and Design Director
Graduated from the Toulouse Lautrec School, native of Cusco, worthy admirer of the colors of Peruvian culture, the aesthetics of traditional costumes. She has been working since 2003 in synergy with popular artists in different provinces of Peru. Through her sustainable fashion project "Las Polleras de Agus" she has obtained important achievements and above all she has vindicated popular art.

 

 


Esther Yaurivilca, Plastic and visual artist. Graduated from the Escuela Nacional Superior AutĂłnoma de Bellas Artes del PerĂș. Interested in the illustration of stories related to reinforce aspects of identity from the recognition of characters and ancestral iconography of Peru, is currently developing a project that involves the creation of a story of Chimu origin where the main character is the Peruvian dog.

 

OUR POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT

We have built a business model based on the quality of life of our collaborators, starting with fair salary payments. We generates employment cocreating with artists from vulnerable areas of different provinces of the country.
More than 23 popular artists from Ayacucho, HuĂĄnuco, Huancayo, Cusco, Pucallpa, Lima and Arequipa are benefited by our teamwork with the craftsmen.

COMMITMENT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

We have an environmental, health and safety policy that establishes group goals for key environmental aspects. To promote the responsible consumption and to educate our community so they will value the environment as we do. We produce 3 collections a year. We reuse all the waste of our raw material, making accessories or dolls.The materials we use come from sustainable sources, as well as the wastes of deadstock materials from the textile and leather industry.

2025 - 2026 AIDER & NIIBIRI

The main objective is to promote the conservation of the Amazon forests, where families of native communities of the Shipibo Conibo and Cacataibo ethnic groups live, and to contribute to improving their quality of life.
We will achieve this by working hand in hand between NIIBIRI, AGUSTINA, and AIDER, in the development and co-creation of "Products with history", which come from a sustainable management of natural resources, through the Forestry Alliance initiative.