GMA News | February 05, 2013
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” For the past eleven years, Galerie Joaquin has been presenting some of the very best of Philippine modern and contemporary visual art–and in the process allowing more and more people to find and lose themselves in art’s allure. One of the pioneer art galleries in the country, Galerie Joaquin has witnessed and contributed to the seismic shifts in the continued development of visual art, and has played a part in the increasing profile of Philippine art within the regional art scene. Galerie Joaquin represents and has hosted important exhibitions from renowned art scene heavyweights, including Presidential Medal of Merit winner Juvenal Sanso, National Artists Arturo Luz and Abdulmari Imao, glasswork genius Ramon Orlina, and the estate of the late National Artist Frederico Aguilar Alcuaz. The gallery has also been behind the successful career of masters Mario Parial, Lydia Velasco, Dominic Rubio and Michael Cacnio.