20th-21st Century Philippine

Aguilar Alcuaz studied law in his home country, though the fact that his father was a composer meant that he had always been in contact with art from a very early age.

He had his first exhibition in 1953, comprised solely of portraits, in which one could appreciate his evident admiration for Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972), one of the most acclaimed Philippine painters and portraitists of the time.

After winning many distinctions in his home country, in 1954 he won a scholarship from the Spanish government to study at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Afterwards, he lived in Barcelona for nine years and from there he moved to Paris, where he perfected his work with tapestries and textiles thanks to the innovative technological advances at the Art Protis workshops and its unique machinery, which were able to proportion a unique spectrum of colours.

His fame as a contemporary artist quickly spread and he soon garnered a name for himself on three continents.