TABO

Tabo, a new video installation by Roberto Chabet

As the third to the last of a series of exhibitions for 2011, Roberto Chabet’s Tabo features a video installation inspired by the opening chapter of Jose Rizal’s novel El Filibusterismo. A first for Chabet, the video installation commemorates Rizal’s 150th birth anniversary and becomes a metaphor for the ephemeralities in culture, history and everyday life. Chabet’s other works, which are part of the Lopez Museum’s permanent collection will also be shown, including the multi-paneled painting Four Directions from 1999 and two of his earliest paintings on chipboards. Alongside this is Pablo Biglang-awa’s D-I-Y Chabet, videos that show the process of art making reduced to a step-by-step, connect –the-dots, paint-by-numbers exercise, in reference to Chabet’s archive housed at Lopez Museum.

Roberto Chabet (born 1937) graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Santo Tomas and taught for three decades in the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, curating shows and creating works with his students. Chabet has received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award and CCP Centennial Award of Honors for the Arts. Pablo Biglang-Awa (born 1963) is a graduate of the UP College of Fine Arts whose work as a film director has won him awards from Star Awards for Movies and the Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle among others.

Tabo is co-presented by The Lopez Museum and King Kong Art Projects Unlimited as part of the Chabet: 50 Years series of exhibitions celebrating the fifty years of Roberto Chabet’s pioneering conceptual work as artist, curator and teacher.

The Lopez Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. Museum days and hours are Mondays-Saturdays, 8am-5pm, except holidays. For more information, call Fanny at (632) 631-2417.