The Four Directions (Exhibition Preparation)

Photograph of Roberto Chabet (right, kneeling) installing The Four Directions at Finale Art Gallery preparing for the exhibition of the same title. The work, together with Dreams: 100 Years at West Gallery, is part of an extended diptych that were exhibited simultaneously at Finale and West Galleries, SM Megamall from 29 March - 9 April 1999.

The Four Directions at Finale Art Gallery is a large-scale, four-panel, heavily painted work in-laid with harmonicas. The work is inspired by an Allen Ginsberg poem titled 'On Cremation of Chogyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara.' The four colors used in the paintings - yellow, white, green, and red - are based on the colors of the Tibetan flag.

Dreams: 100 Years at West Gallery is a space-specific installation that anthologizes images and objects (alphabet blocks, snare drums, crowbar, conch shell, and a painting based on a photograph of Joseph Cornell's shelves) used in the artist's earlier series titled The Interpretation of Dreams (1995).

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The Four Directions (Exhibition Preparation)