The Osage Art Foundation (OAF) together with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (ICAS), LASALLE College of the Arts, will be presenting exhibitions of Mr. Roberto Chabet and over 75 acclaimed and emerging Filipino artists whom he has mentored or influenced. The exhibitions are supported by the Embassy of the Philippines, Singapore, and Philippine Consulate General, Hong Kong, and are the first in a series of exhibitions organised by King Kong Art Projects Unlimited throughout 2011 - 2012 at various venues in Singapore, Hong Kong and Manila in celebration of fifty years of Roberto Chabet's pioneering conceptual work and his role in shaping Filipino art.

The exhibitions - entitled, "To Be Continued", "Intermediate Geography" and "Complete & Unabridged, Parts I and II" - are scheduled to run from 13 January to the end of March 2011 in Singapore at ICAS, and from 4 March to early June 2011 in Hong Kong at Osage Kwun Tong.

"To Be Continued" is a landmark survey exhibition of Chabet's plywood works from 1984 to the present. In these works, Chabet utilises his signature material: store-bought plywood boards. It is a material which has become not only the surface and support of his paintings and installations, but to a large extent the subject matter and content. Curated by Ringo Bunoan, Isabel Ching and Nilo Ilarde, the exhibition gathers for the first time significant works, including the seminal 1980s trilogy, Russian Paintings, House Paintings and Cargo and Decoy. Highlighting the process and the provisional aspect of the material, "To Be Continued" is reflective of how Chabet's practice gives precedence to the fugitive and contingent nature of art.

“Intermediate Geography” was an installation first displayed in 2005 as part of Chabet’s series of annual simultaneous exhibitions at Finale Art Gallery and West Gallery at SM Megamall in Manila. It will be reconstructed in Osage Soho as a reminder of the “dichotomies between the known and the unknowable; the expressible and the inexpressible; private and public; oneself and the other; art and non-art.”

“Complete & Unabridged” is a major exhibition featuring over 75 contemporary artists from the Philippines, all of whom studied under the Filipino conceptual artist Roberto Chabet at the University of the Philippines - College of Fine Arts (UPCFA) and at key artist-run spaces in Manila. Chabet taught for over thirty years and curated numerous landmark exhibitions of vanguard art by his students. He is a driving force and mentor of several generations of Filipino artists that together represents a dynamic movement in Philippine conceptual art. Curated by Ringo Bunoan, Isabel Ching and Gary-Ross Pastrana, the wide range of works featured in the exhibition include painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video, and reflect the diversity of interests and practices in Philippine art today. While not all participating artists follow the same trajectories and paths, they are connected by a continuing discussion on alternative forms and ways of thinking about art, which Chabet has consistently raised through his own art, curated exhibitions and teachings.

‘To Be Continued: Hong Kong’ brings together for the first time major works by Roberto Chabet from the 1980s to the present, including his latest and largest installation to date ‘One thing after another’. Known as the founding father of conceptual art in the Philippines, this exhibition offers a rare chance to see Chabet’s pioneering conceptual work utilising his signature materials - plywood, metal sheets and other common found objects – that have shaped Filipine conceptual art over the past 50 years.

Participating Artists:

Complete & Unabridged, Part I
Agnes Arellano | Bernardo Pacquing | Bert Antonio
Crispin Villanueva Jr. | Dan Raralio | Elaine Roberto-Navas | Felix Bacolor | Francesca Enriquez | Gaston Damag | Gerardo Tan | Jet Melencio | Jojo Serrano | Jonathan Olazo | Juan Alcazaren | Juni Salvador | Lani Maestro | Mona Santos | Nilo Ilarde | Pardo de Leon | Popo San Pascual | Raul Rodriguez | Retired Artist | RM de Leon | Roberto Chabet | Rock Drilon | Ronald Achacoso | Soler Santos| Trek Valdizno | Waling Waling Gorospe | Yolanda Perez-Johnson

Complete & Unabridged, Part II
Aba Lluch Dalena | Al Cruz | Alvin Villaruel | Alvin Zafra
Amy Aragon | Annie Cabigting | Argie Bandoy | Bea Camacho
Bembol de la Cruz | Cocoy Lumbao | Erik Sausa | Ernest Concepcion | Gary-Ross Pastrana | Geraldine Javier | Jayson Oliveria | Jay Ticar | Jed Escueta | Jonathan Ching | Jucar Raquepo | Kaloy Olavides | Katya Guerrero | Keiye Miranda | Kiri Lluch Dalena| Kreskin Sugay | Lea Lim | Lena Cobangbang | Louie Cordero| Lui Medina | Maria Taniguchi | Mariano Ching | Mawen Ong | Mike Crisostomo | Miko Sandejas | MM Yu | Nona Garcia | Norberto Roldan | Patricia Eustaquio | Paul Mondok
Paulo Vinluan | Pipo Alido | Poklong Anading | Pow Martinez
Ranelle Dial | Reg Yuson | Ringo Bunoan | Robert Langenegger
Roberto Chabet | Romeo Lee | Sam Kiyoumarsi | Wire Tuazon
Yasmin Sison | Yason Banal