before midnight
FRESH EYES AT HIRAYA
(TODAY news paper, style today-art section/Tuesday, May 7, 1996)
The mezzanine of Hiraya Gallery launches the works on paper by Fernando Escora, former student at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Diliman, Quezon City.
Escora’s pen-and-ink drawings depict the places he has frequented in recent months: bars, cafes, galleries and malls, and the object and people commonly found there.
talking lips
HIRAYA LAUNCHES NEW ARTIST
(Philippine Daily Inquirer, Lifestyle section-art, Monday, May 6, 1996)
Escora’s pen and ink drawings are the offshoot of his observation of places he has frequented in recent months like bars, cafes, galleries and malls.
The collection is an interesting study of objects and people one finds in this places and which Escora composed and recreated through the richness of his imagination.
tell tale
SUNDAY INQUIRER MAGAZINE
(by Rachel Mayo, May 26, 1996)
Fernando escora, for his part, tackles the bar and the café as a reference for various human situations, using the harlequin to symbolize deception among people. Using a ballpoint pen, he draws in the manner of the cubist, in a way that breaks the surface into bits of refracted light.