The mystical, magical moments of Nasser Lubay

AT a young age, Nasser Lubay had gone already to places abroad usually reserved for maturing artists. In 2009 he won the prestigious Celeste International Art Prize. That winning work, titled Rebirth, was exhibited at the Second Animamix Biennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan. He was part of the 2010 Ondarte International Artist Residency in Akumal, Mexico. Upon his return to the Philippines after the residency, Nasser was chosen to be one of Jollibee’s Young Ambassadors, cited for his achievements in the arts.

It is, therefore, a good news for our small art world that Lubay has notched new impressive achievements again. Two of his paintings received international notices: one, called Mirror, was included in 1340, a curated art magazine based in the Netherlands; the other with quite a ponderous title, Glimpse Into Transcendence, was exhibited in the Florence Biennale 2017.