A Cornerstone in Philippine Art
April 4, 2003
Roberto ‘Bobby’ Chabet also marked a stupendous exhibit the same night as one of his former academecian, Roberto ‘Bob’ Feleo, on the eve of the 29th of March 2003 that was simply titled ‘Chabet’. The simultaneous shows that opened at the Finale and West Galleries located at Megamall as always gave us another glimpse of the mind behind the great artist. With perhaps the changes around us inside and outside our country, we become more sensitive to the nuances of each and every good or bad things that happen. Good art becomes more memorable in these moments.
Every year we celebrate our birth and every year in his prime, this artist marks his with a contemporary show. The exhibits are largely conceptual and through the years have been one of the more consistent and if not the constant. Roberto Chabet through time defies time and lives it to the full. He creates the axis of good shows as few people I know have done quite successfully and inherently. With this conceptual installation done mostly in black, the artist gives us just a hint of his effortless lifework and legacy—his brand of art. Like Roberto Feleo he marks his journey with shows but unlike him through years he was always there. In these concurrent exhibits he display a boat painted black, unpainted ledges lined with painted alarm clocks, a bench and a board, inverted ladders on a ledge and a ledge decked with alphabet blocks are some of the more familiar ones. These are just a part of the dichotomies of one Chabet. Or is it the stages of one great artist telling us his story and reminding us to be more unencumbered?
The exhibit design done by the artist himself leave none to be deliberated on as it was consistently and facilely accomplished. A trademark of Chabet is his eye for good space and form largely deliberate on western principles of intent. He makes ample use of all the created space be it the floor ceiling or the walls as a true artist.
I found the fellow artists and audiences at the Finale and West Galleries a more energetic crowd of well wishers in contrast to regular audiences and patrons. The pursuit of the good things like humanness and the strength of the Filipino when complemented with conceptual ones create a more diverse worthy endeavor for art and its affinity. They all came in full force to applaud both the vigor and excellence of the artist. Both young and old, inebriate and sober, students and the academe, friends and enemies alike distinguished the night revelry of one Chabet with a bang.
(Coincidental is the use of both artists of the boat or the canoe as cathartic to a journey through illness, life and even death. Charting across the different boundaries they both served well in use. Thanks in part to the artist Joy Dayrit for some thoughtful comments.)
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
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Roberto ‘Bobby’ Chabet also marked a stupendous exhibit the same night as one of his former academecian, Roberto ‘Bob’ Feleo, on the eve of the 29th of March 2003 that was simply titled ‘Chabet’. The simultaneous shows that opened at the Finale and West Galleries located at Megamall as always gave us another glimpse of the mind behind the great artist. With perhaps the changes around us inside and outside our country, we become more sensitive to the nuances of each and every good or bad things that happen. Good art becomes more memorable in these moments.
Every year we celebrate our birth and every year in his prime, this artist marks his with a contemporary show. The exhibits are largely conceptual and through the years have been one of the more consistent and if not the constant. Roberto Chabet through time defies time and lives it to the full. He creates the axis of good shows as few people I know have done quite successfully and inherently. With this conceptual installation done mostly in black, the artist gives us just a hint of his effortless lifework and legacy—his brand of art. Like Roberto Feleo he marks his journey with shows but unlike him through years he was always there. In these concurrent exhibits he display a boat painted black, unpainted ledges lined with painted alarm clocks, a bench and a board, inverted ladders on a ledge and a ledge decked with alphabet blocks are some of the more familiar ones. These are just a part of the dichotomies of one Chabet. Or is it the stages of one great artist telling us his story and reminding us to be more unencumbered?
The exhibit design done by the artist himself leave none to be deliberated on as it was consistently and facilely accomplished. A trademark of Chabet is his eye for good space and form largely deliberate on western principles of intent. He makes ample use of all the created space be it the floor ceiling or the walls as a true artist.
I found the fellow artists and audiences at the Finale and West Galleries a more energetic crowd of well wishers in contrast to regular audiences and patrons. The pursuit of the good things like humanness and the strength of the Filipino when complemented with conceptual ones create a more diverse worthy endeavor for art and its affinity. They all came in full force to applaud both the vigor and excellence of the artist. Both young and old, inebriate and sober, students and the academe, friends and enemies alike distinguished the night revelry of one Chabet with a bang.
(Coincidental is the use of both artists of the boat or the canoe as cathartic to a journey through illness, life and even death. Charting across the different boundaries they both served well in use. Thanks in part to the artist Joy Dayrit for some thoughtful comments.)
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
*** visit me at
www.amiel-roldan.tk
www.amielroldan.tk
www.amielaceremoroldan.tk
at my blogs:
www.amielroldan.wordpress.com
www.amielroldan.blogspot.com
www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/a-g-roldan.html
www.myspace.com/amiel_roldan
www.amiel_roldan.multiply.com
www.face-pic.com/amiel_roldan
please comment and tag if you like my compilations.
amiel_roldan@yahoo.com
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