Photograph of a detail of Roberto Chabet's installation, Who's Afraid of Alexander Rodchenko? The installation includes red, blue, yellow, black, and white canvasses mounted with clipboards with smaller, but similarly painted canvasses. Each one is painted with pure colour directly from a tube. Facing them is a set of blacks, also with attached clipboards, painted with an alchemy of primary colours, mixed to approximate the darkest shade possible. The paintings in Who's Afraid of Alexander Rodchenko? are done by Chabet's former student, artist Gerardo Tan.
The work is included in a three-part exhibition entitled 'Alarm and Chaos' at West Gallery, Manila, from 31 March - 27 April 2009. The title, 'Alarm and Chaos,' is derived from Shakespearean plays, a stage instruction that calls for sudden mayhem. The two other works in the exhibition are Fear and Trembling Alone Will Be Enough and For Beauty Is Nothing But The Beginning Of Terror.
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Roberto CHABET,  Gerardo TAN
painting,  installation,  conceptualism,  found object,  found object
2009
Philippines
Neon, plywood, metal brackets
Dimensions variable
artwork documentation
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