Gives courses at the Ateneo de Manila University on the history of art and a range of subjects (contemporary art, Chinese and Japanese art) from 1956 until 1961. Starts his Saeta series, where the theme is movement expressed through the use of line produced with a surgical syringe Starts working on an archaeological dig in Hacienda Calatagan with archaeologist Dr. Robert Fox, which stimulated his interest in reading and writing Chinese Exhibits some of his paintings belonging to his Saeta series and Black series at Galeria Biosca in Madrid, Spain, which was the first time that the gallery had held an exhibition of an abstract artist's work 1956-1960