Pinoy artist Roberto Chabet opens exhibit in Hong Kong

An exhibit featuring the works of Philippine conceptual artist Roberto Chabet opened in Hong Kong's Kowloon area over the weekend. The Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong said the exhibit "To Be Continued-Hong Kong" will be held at Osage Kwun Tong, 5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon The exhibition is open for viewing everyday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and will run until September 21, the Consulate added. "This exhibition brings together for the first time Chabet’s significant plywood series as well as his largest and most recent installation to date, 'Onethingafteranother,'" the Consulate said in a news release on its website. Hong Kong is one of the three venues - aside from Manila and Singapore - that are part of a year-long series of exhibits, talks and publications marking Chabet's 50 years in the industry. Many consider Chabet as the father of Philippine conceptual arts, the Philippine consulate noted. From March to May, Chabet's former students held a tribute exhibition "Complete and Unabridged II" at Osage Kwun Tong. Roberto Chabet was born in 1937 in Manila, and held his first solo exhibition at the Luz Gallery in 1961, according to King Kong Art Projects Unlimited, a non-profit artist organization supporting alternative Philippine art. Chabet was a graduate of Architecture from the University of Sto. Tomas and was highly regarded for his experimental paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures. "Breaking away from the rigid formalisms of Modernism, Chabet insists on a more inclusive approach to art, a search for the sublime not just in abstract ideas but also in the immediacy of the quotidian and the commonplace. In his works, abstraction and the everyday collide, creating spaces for new meanings," it said. Chabet was the founding museum director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). - VVP, GMA News