About the artist

Roberto Cabot was born in 1963 in Rio de Janeiro as a Franco-Brazilian citizen and currently lives and works in Paris. He began his studies at FAU-UFRJ (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and continued them in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, where he was also admitted to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts for a painting course with Pierre Alechinsky as his professor.

During this period, Cabot developed a strong relationship with the philosopher Félix Guattari, a encounter that laid the foundation for the artist's organic network thinking and his interest in philosophical-anthropological questions. At the end of his studies in 1987, Cabot began exhibiting and left Paris for Madrid, then Cologne, and Berlin. In 2006, he moved with his studio to his hometown of Rio de Janeiro. In 2016, he returned to Paris, where he has been residing since. Cabot has published texts for various magazines and catalogs, and he gives lectures and courses. The artist is also engaged in teaching and has conducted workshops at different art schools in Europe and Brazil, such as AKI in Enschede (Netherlands), the Escuela de Bellas Artes de La Universidad de La Laguna (Spain), HFBK (Hochschule für bildende Künste) in Hamburg, and the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro, where he was a full-time professor from 2012 to 2016), among others.

His work addresses the multiplicity of perspectives in our contemporary perception, often combining very different media and technologies in his production, preferably merging ancestral and new technologies into a single work. He is a pioneer in the use of the Internet in the arts, having participated in the historic exhibition "NetCondition" at ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, curated by Peter Weibel) in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1999. Recently, he has refocused on painting as a medium, exploring the concept of the Sublime and our relationship with a rapidly transforming biosphere, as well as seeking ways to surpass the dominant "naturalistic" model in our global society.

The artist is also an associated researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Critique Interdisciplinaire (LACI-LAP) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

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