The Exhibition Center for Contemporary Art, or ECCA for short, was the dream of three ardent lovers of art:
the art collector Cesar Duque,
the art dealer Mario Alcantara, and
Manuel Duldulao, author of fifteen books on Philippine art. It did not take long for ECCA to be born. Mr. Duque had a building at Valle Verde I, in Pasig City, called the Chateau Verde Business Center, and assigned the ground floor for the main gallery and first floor for a stockroom. Mr. Alcantara knew the market quite well having been involved in it for thirty...more
