Roberto Chabet (b. 1937) is a pioneering Filipino conceptual artist whose works are results of the process of unraveling of fixed notions about art and meaning. Highly allegorical, his drawings, collages, sculptures and installations question modernity. His works are meditations on space, the transitory nature of commonplace objects and the collisions that occur with their displacement.
Chabet studied Architecture at the UST where he graduated in 1961. He had his first solo exhibition at the Luz Gallery in the same year. He was the founding Museum Director of the CCP from 1967-1970 where he initiated the first 13 Artists, giving recognition to young artists whose works 'show a recentness, a turning away from the past and familiar modes of art-making'. He led the 70s conceptual art group Shop 6 and taught for over 30 years at the UP College of Fine Arts, where he espoused a kind of practice that gave precedence to idea over form. (from the Alarm + Chaos show brochure, West Gallery, till April 27, 2009)
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