Fernando Amorsolo’s 1931 oil-on-canvas “Mango Gatherers” fetched a whopping P46.7 million during León Gallery’s Spectacular Midyear Auction last June 9, setting a new world record for the first ever National Artist to be proclaimed.
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“What does it all matter, as long as the wounds fit the arrows?” a variation of Franz Kafka’s entry in his diary, serves as a cryptic title for a sprawling group exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in memory of pioneering Filipino artist, teacher, curator, and CCP’s founding museum director Roberto Chabet (1937-2013).
The artist Roberto Chabet, who died after heart failure on May 1, mentored generations of artists who revered and loved him not just for coaxing out of them the ability to look at and make art in a new way, but also because of the awe for his work, which, through the simplest of forms, could have cosmic sweep at the same time that it could express such tender humanity.
Though she’s a successful furniture designer, Yolanda “Yola” Perez Johnson hopes she can return to her art “that nobody liked.”
Ongoing at the Cultural Center of the Philippines is an unprecedented retrospective of a single artist on all four levels of the building. The artist is Roberto Chabet.
