About the artist

Roberto Cabot was born in 1963 in Rio de Janeiro and currently lives and works in Paris.

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.

He began his studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FAU-UFRJ) 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 (ENSBA) in painting with Pierre Alechinsky as 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.

Engaged in teaching, he 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), the HFBK (Hochschule für bildende Künste) in Hamburg, and the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro, where he was an entitled professor from 2012 to 2016), among others.

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.

"Warhol said he would like to be a machine; personally, I would rather be my cat." More than just a witty remark, this statement, recently used by Roberto Cabot to present his work in the exhibition "Planet B - The Sublime and the Climate Crisis," curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at the 2022 Venice Biennale, reveals a deeper intention beyond an animalistic stance. It expresses a desire to free our aesthetic perspective from an anthropocentric tradition that privileges the human viewpoint as the sole measure of living experience. Contrary to modern discourse and its productivistic ideal, which the painter continuously opposes by advocating for a bio-aesthetic approach, inspiring the title of the exhibition "Fruiting Bodies" at the Anne de Villepoix gallery, Roberto Cabot strives to go beyond the mechanistic view of the proliferation of living worlds, which is too often reduced to columns of figures or statistics. Inspired as much by contemporary ethology as by the thoughts of Ailton Krenak or art expressions from multiple cultures, the artist invites us on a journey of wonder and discovery of the diversity of the wonderfull living world we inhabit.