100 Altars for Roberto Chabet
Norberto Roldan
08 June – 04 July 2013
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08 June – 04 July 2013
This series of new paintings trails the artist’s practice in terms of his given predisposition to using found objects in his assemblages and installations. The paintings are composed of found images and found texts. Apart from these paintings being a juxtaposition of image and text, they are also dichotomies of past and present, East and West, colonize rand colonized, civilized and primitive, truth and lies, love and hate, war and peace... The texts were lifted from different sources, mostly from the novel The Pretenders by Philippine national artist for literature F. Sionil Jose written more than 30 years ago. Images were grabbed from various online archives with the most recent photo dated 10 years ago. These works are neither documentaries nor a historiography and so. Images and texts are intentionally cross-bred to subvert historical facts giving way to fiction and other accidental narratives.
A three-part exhibition project, Savage Nation opens in June in MO_Space where a 2003 installation “Love White, White Love,” returning home from an extended exhibition tour from Chiangmai, Bangkok, Berlin, Sydney and Singapore, will hang as center piece. No Empire Lasts Forever, the second part, will open in September at TAKSU-Singapore and the final part, The Past Is Another Country, will open in TAKSU-Kuala Lumpur in the middle of 2014. This trilogy reflects on a society and how through the years people grappled with social, political and cultural changes. Such reflection is provoked by a realization that colonial occupations in general are regarded as philanthropic acts meant to uplift subject populations. That seems to be an irony. But the strangest irony is that no colonizer could possibly rule without the consent and collaboration of the colonized.
Parallel to Savage Nation, Roldan mounts 100 Altars for Roberto Chabet in the Project Room. Referencing one of Chabet’s significant bodies of work, the Ziggurat series, Roldan pays tribute to an institution whose influence on Philippine contemporary art-making is unprecedented and whose legendary generosity to his community is unsurpassed.
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About the Artist
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Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City) is a multimedia artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the St. Pius X Seminary, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and a Masters in Art studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Roldan is currently the artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects, an alternative multidisciplinary platform which he co-founded in 2000.
He has represented the Philippines in various international exhibitions in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the USA. He was represented in three landmark surveys of Southeast Asian contemporary art, including New Art from Southeast Asia by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (1992), Negotiating Home History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011 by the Singapore Art Museum and most recently, No Country: Contemporary Art For South / Southeast Asia by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2013). His works are included in collections worldwide, such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the Singapore Art Museum, the Deutsche Bank, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the San Miguel Corporation, the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Bencab Museum, the Carlos Oppen Cojuangco Foundation, the Artour Holdings Singapore, to name a few.
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About the Artists
About the Artist
Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City) is a multimedia artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the St. Pius X Seminary, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and a Masters in Art studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Roldan is currently the artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects, an alternative multidisciplinary platform which he co-founded in 2000.
He has represented the Philippines in various international exhibitions in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the USA. He was represented in three landmark surveys of Southeast Asian contemporary art, including New Art from Southeast Asia by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (1992), Negotiating Home History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011 by the Singapore Art Museum and most recently, No Country: Contemporary Art For South / Southeast Asia by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2013). His works are included in collections worldwide, such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the Singapore Art Museum, the Deutsche Bank, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the San Miguel Corporation, the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Bencab Museum, the Carlos Oppen Cojuangco Foundation, the Artour Holdings Singapore, to name a few.
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