Way of Seeing: Chabet’s acrylics

Review of Roberto Chabet's solo exhibition, titled 'Chabet’s acrylics' by Eric Torres in his column 'Way of Seeing', published in The Manila Times on 4 September 1967. The exhibition was held at Luz Gallery from 1 to 13 September 1967.

The review includes a photograph of one of the works in Chabet's Tarot series, which is also featured in the exhibition, along with over forty other acrylic paintings.

Excerpt from the review:

'If the asceticism of his show last year, almost totally a black-and-white performance, appealed only to a small passel of mandarins, the current one should delight a large public with its more obvious charms. The new works junk understatement, cerebral super-subtlety, all that shibui bit, for some colourful surprises. Offbeat, hopped up colours are exactly congruous with the eccentric shapes of pictures which bear such laconic titles as 'Tarot' and 'Objects'. He sometimes uses solid, candy-kiosk, whoopee colours that vaguely recall King Features Syndicate cartoons. One has to hand it Chabet, however, that he has an automatic signal box wired on to his back of his mind that stops him from debasing his art with the campy references of Pop Art.'

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Way of Seeing: Chabet’s acrylics