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Hiraya Gallery will take its visitors on a trek to the lush landscapes of the ancient town of Binangonan, founded by a Franciscan missionary in 1621 on the lakeshore of Laguna de Ba-y. The bounties of the sunbursts, earth mounds, and sea swells adorn the oil canvasses of Eric Diestro in his first one-man exhibition entitled "The Last Glimmer of Summer."
Walking by each canvass transposes a viewer into a virtual experience of meandering on dry flatlands at noon day and climbing the tops of the hilly town lying at the outskirts of the Sierra Mountain range.
Filling his canvasses with the exuberant colors of bright green foliage, sun-drenched blue waters and terra cotta earth, Diestro leads on to the secret sights of his youth and the memories he plants on his kid's minds now. He enriches each memory by keeping toll of the shadows of the day. Night slips in with the wild burst of sunset on his painting Binangonan Sunset , and time drops gleaming like a waterfall in Thirst Quencher.
Eric Diestro is Enrico Lagajeros Diestro, a 45 year old self-taught painter who branched out from being a biology graduate in college in 1982, a farm manager in 1983 to 1988, a computer technician from AMA College in 1985, assistant art director at Creative Source from 1993 until 1995. The course of the artistic river wound very slowly...between the frames of his interest.
Anticipating the long rolls of rain clouds from July until September, Hiraya bids off from the summer season with this exhibition.
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