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Oracion, Fernando Quiroz
Atypical in many ways, Fernando came to sculpture via a roundabout path. Like many kids, he enjoyed drawing in his early years, but the small town offered few opportunities for exposure to art and few ways to hone his skills. “I had no idea what art was about,” he related.
After high school, he enrolled in a civil
engineering program at the University of Sonora, because it was the
only practical application of
drawing that came to his mind. He lasted a few months until he realized it wasn’t for him, and then he dropped out to play soccer for a season with a third division team. Turned on by sports and physical activity, he enrolled in a sports education program in Monterrey, Mexico. After a year and a half, he felt it wasn’t his calling. From there, he entered a design school in Monterrey. There, when he was about 23 years old, he had his first introduction to galleries and museums via art appreciation classes, and before he knew it he was hooked. He graduated with a degree in graphic design, and began sculpting on his own, largely self- taught. That was about 20 years ago, and his work has constantly evolved since then. For the past 12 years he has kept up a steady record of exhibitions in the university and museum galleries of the region.
When I asked Fernando what he aims for in his work he replied: “I try to express the connection between my internal self and my external self. The intention is to express what is happening at the moment I’m doing the work—what is happening in my mind, or in the world---my existential chaos. I try to overcome complexes and guilt, merits and errors, as accuser and accused, as an observer outside of what I’m doing,
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