Two Paintings

Photograph of Roberto Chabet's Two Paintings. The work is from a two-part installation that was first exhibited in 2003 in one of Chabet's annual simultaneous exhibitions at Finale Art Gallery and West Gallery, SM Megamall. The broken clocks, all painted black, were collected from the artist's students and friends, while the upturned boat recalls Chabet's previous work, Arrival and Departure - The Melancholy Of from the 'Cargo and Decoy' exhibition at The Pinaglabanan Gallery in 1989.

This photograph shows the reconstructed version of the work from the exhibition, 'To Be Continued,' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore - La Salle College of the Arts from 13 January - 11 February 2011. The work 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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2003

Medium

Plywood, acrylic, spray paint, metal brackets, wooden boat, broken clocks

Dimension

243.84cm x 487.68cm x 121.92cm

Content type

artwork documentation

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Two Paintings