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Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Madrid, Spain Leon Gallery, The Spectacular Mid-Year Auction, Makati City, 2018. Lot 51.

Exhibited: Exhibited: Luz Gallery, Chabet 2nd Solo Exhibition, Manila, 1964.

ABOUT THE WORK

As the father of Philippine Conceptual Art, Roberto Chabet exemplified the radical shifts and movements that defined the Filipino art scene in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Chabet sought to find alternatives to formalism and genre-based art, two of the most popular styles at the time. Instead, he opted to tackle more complex and avant-garde themes through groundbreaking artistic experimentations and practices. Thus his works often challenged the boundaries of traditional and institutional works by thinking outside the box and working beyond the canvas. He produced innovative pieces through unconventional means such as installation and found object works that utilize a myriad of materials such as perishable organic materials, magazine clippings, esoteric ephemera, and other cultural debris. Chabet’s creative spirit also helped foster the next generation of artistic voices to pursue the arts through an avant-garde lens. This particular piece titled Blind Window is one of the few oil on canvas paintings Roberto Chabet produced during his illustrious career. This work is part of a series of paintings and drawings Chabet made between the years 1963 to 1966 that used the window as a subject, compositional device, and as metaphor. The particular shape of the image in the painting is based on the window of the Texas School Book Depository Building in Dallas, Texas, USA, from where Lee Harvey Oswald, shot and killed John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.