To Be Continued

Photograph of Roberto Chabet's To Be Continued, created in 2010.

The ten plywood panels, accompanied by a neon sign, 'To Be Continued,' are made by former students of Chabet - Nona Garcia, MM Yu, Louie Cordero, Ringo & Lila Bunoan, Juni Salvador, Mawen Ong, Bernardo Pacquing, Juan Alcazaren, Bembol dela Cruz & Ranelle Dial, and Hubert San Juan, following instructions to mix their own colours using the three primaries - red, yellow, and blue - plus black or white if needed.  

The work is part of the exhibition, also titled 'To Be Continued,' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore - La Salle College of the Arts from 13 January - 11 February 2011. It was also included in the same exhibition at Osage Kwun Tong in Hong Kong from 12 August - 21 September 2011 and at the Cultural Center of the Philippines from 19 January - 31 March 2012.

'To Be Continued' is a landmark survey exhibition of Chabet’s plywood works from 1984 to the present. In these works, he utilises his signature material – store-bought plywood boards. It is a material which has 'become not only the surface and support of his paintings and installations, but to a large extent its subject matter and content.'

The exhibition gathers for the first time significant works, including the seminal 1980s trilogy Russian Paintings, House Paintings, and Cargo and Decoy. Highlighting process and the provisional aspect of the material, it is reflective of Chabet’s practice, which gives precedence to the fugitive and contingent nature of art.

The exhibition is part of 'Roberto Chabet: Fifty Years,' a year-long series of exhibitions organised by King Kong Art Projects Unlimited in various venues in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Manila from 2011 - 2012.

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2010

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Philippines

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Plywood, acrylic, metal brackets, neon

Dimension

121.92cm x 1280.16cm x 30.48cm

Content type

artwork documentation

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To Be Continued