{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47288,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"39","artist":"Roberto Chabet (1937 - 2013)","title":"Forbidden Planet","starting_price":300000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1985 (verso)","medium":"collage","size":"42\" x 39\" (107 cm x 99 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Having nurtured several generations of today’s Filipino contemporary artists throughout three decades of teaching at the UP College of FineArts, Roberto Chabet is best known for his conceptual approach that paved the way for further experimentation and, in the words of artist and curator Ringo Bunoan, “a sense of playful criticality” in Philippine art. Although he embarked on an artistic career alongside the postwar Filipino modernists, Chabet stood out for his deconstructive treatment of medium and form.<br /><br />“Drawing is the anchor to Chabet’s expansive body of works,” Ringo Bunoan writes, referring to Chabet’s knack for experimenting with fragments or pieces of forms— the visible marks made before a drawing turns into an image. Such experimentations on form would culminate in Chabet’s collages that he began to make in the late 1970s when he would gather various graphic, print, and illustrated ephemera— a miscellaneous collection of things which would later on expand in the 1980s to include maps, cartons, wrappers, lists, receipts, and postcards in his series of China Collages. This series, reaching up to over 300 works in Chabet’s oeuvre, would become formative stepping stones towards a series of cosmos- themed exhibits later on such as Other Planets in 1993 and Guide to the Night and Noonday Skies in 2001.<br /><br />The fixation with space or the idea of placement through displacement (of forms) is a recurring theme of Chabet’s works, particularly evident in his collages. In the China Collage series, the maps, in place of any cartographic function, become abstracted places as various ephemera overlap to form an unpredictable arrangement, becoming intersecting pieces of time and space. Chabet expounds on this theme of displacement later on by evoking liminality as a sense of ‘no-place’ in Other Planets and Guide to the Night and Noonday Skies:<br /><br /> “The artist sees his territory not only as a specific place but as a departure point for an ‘elsewhere.’ The artist builds boundaries and breaks down boundaries. Placement implies displacement... Art measures the artist’s known place and the unknown ‘no place’ — a nowhere, a utopia that is glimpsed through the artist’s metaphor. Metaphor is displacement.”<br /><br />In this 1985 work, Chabet refers to the ‘no-place’ as a forbidden planet of sorts. Solid blocks of red, green and yellow peek out amongst the scattered pieces of printed graphic and ephemera, torn and cut into fragments of space and time. Here, memories of former worlds are deconstructed and reconstructed into a new world or a ‘no-place’ of the artist’s own making. The worlds of Chabet’s collages thus float in and across space and time, here and elsewhere in the cosmos, like a forbidden planet light years away— either waiting to be discovered or yearning for a long distance connection. (Pie Tiausas)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":500000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":500000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":600800,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":46978,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/39.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":38,"next":40,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}