Exhibited: Alamat, Solo Exhibition, Tin-Aw Gallery, Makati City, September 24 to October 9, 2010.

ABOUT THE WORK

In his 2010 one-man show at Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Alamat, Don Salubayba reimagines episodes in Alamat ng Pilipinas and translates it into threedimensional pieces he called palitaws. This exhibit was set before he took off for Taipei for a two-month residency grant at the Taipei Artists Village. Big Bang Bamboo is one of the large-scale pieces featured in the said show in which the contemporary artist displayed his animator inclinations and paper engineering techniques. His animator skills were also further developed through his involvement with the Anino Shadowplay Collective, as seen in this attempt in bringing to life a legend on the origin of the Philippines. The internationally renowned late visual artist believed that history is ever-present, not a thing of the past—his art shows his concern in the repetition of history, a practice in redundancy. He also incorporated aesthetic elements that marked the boom of the print industry and the advent of film in his works. A graduate of batch Avellana-Brocka from the Philippine High School for the Arts and a Fine Arts graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Salubayba was the recipient of the Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2009. Prolific and multi-awarded, his artistic preoccupations include painting, shadowplay theater, and installation art.