Roberto "Bobby" Rodriguez Chabet was an artist from the Philippines and widely acknowledged as the father of Philippine conceptual art.
10 Facts About Roberto Chabet
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Roberto Chabet had his first solo exhibition at the Luz Gallery in the same year.
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Roberto Chabet initiated the first 13 Artists Awards, giving recognition to young artists whose works 'show a recentness, a turning away from the past and familiar modes of art-making'.
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Roberto Chabet led the 1970s conceptual art group called Shop 6 and taught for over 30 years at the UP College of Fine Arts, where he espoused an art practice that gave precedence to idea over form.
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Roberto Chabet's works are meditations on space, the transitory nature of commonplace objects and the collisions that occur with their displacement.
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Prolific and multifaceted, Roberto Chabet ventured into architecture, painting, printmaking, sculpture, stage designing, teaching, photography and writing.
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Roberto Chabet has had six individual exhibitions at The Luz Gallery since 1961 and has been an active participant in local group shows.
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Roberto Chabet was the recipient of the 1972 Republic Cultural Heritage Award, the 1972 Araw ng Maynila Award for the Visual Arts, and the 1998 Centennial Honor for the Arts.
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Roberto Chabet died due to cardiac arrest at the UERM Hospital in Santa Mesa, Manila.
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Roberto Chabet is survived by an elder sister, Carmen Mesina, and a younger sister Milagros Garcia.