Texts about the artist (selection)

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Wilfried Dickhoff, "The art of Metamorphosis - On Roberto Cabot's Paintings of unscrupulous Positivity" in catalogue "Fructifications", Édition des Beaux Arts, Paris, 2024.

Nicolas Bourriaud, "Les morphogenèses de Roberto Cabot", in catalogue "Fructifications", Édition des Beaux Arts, Paris, 2024.

In "PLANET B - Climate change and the new sublime" by Nicolas Bourriaud, 2023

Philippe Godin, "Roberto Cabot, peindre dans les ruines du capitalisme", 2023

The artist about his show at Anne de Villepoix gallery, Paris (video), 2023

"Autoportrait d'artiste", L'Observatioire de l'art contemporain, France, 2023

Jam, Museum TV - "Le Jardin des diversités" par Roberto Cabot, 2023

Amanda Abi Khalil, "Revisiter l’exil et la catégorisation identitaire dans l’art contemporain", ArtParis 2023

Nicolas Bourriaud, "Crossed Correspondency", exhibition catalog "The search for the Aleph", MAM-Rio de Janeiro (Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro), 2011

Ligia Canongia, "Fluctuanting Spaces", exhibition catalog "The search for the Aleph", MAM-Rio de Janeiro (Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro), 2011

Fábio Oliveira Nunes, "In Sousa, at the Center of the World", exhibition catalog "The search for the Aleph", MAM-Rio de Janeiro (Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro), 2011

Christian Dominguez, "The eye of Roberto Cabot", MAM-Rio de Janeiro, text to the exhibition "Museu Praia Reflexo", 2006

Noemi Smolik, "Roberto Cabot, a Rebell Against Purity", text to the exhibit "Perceptionema", Brigitte Schenk Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2006

Rodrigo Moura, publication to the show "Sensacionema" at gallery Manoel Macedo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2005

Nicolas Bourriaud, "With the naked Eye", in catalog of the exhibit "Glasses", MyName is Lolita Art", Málaga, Spain, 1992

Juan Manuel Bonet, "Prosas para Roberto Cabot", in catalogue "Una estancia en la isla", Tenerife, Spain, 1991.

Donald Kuspit and P. Groot, in catalogue "Back to the Future", Canarias, Spain, 1990.

Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, "Intérieurs-Extérieurs", catalog exhibition Galerie Froment et Putman, Paris, 1990.

Francisco Rivas, "El papel del dibujo", in exhibition catalogue "Dibujos del Natural", UIMP (Universidad Internacional Menéndez PelayoSantander), Spain, 1989.

Texts by the artist

Publications:

  • 2023 "Relacional e radicante" (Relational and radicant) in the art magazine Babel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • 2019 "Du trope des tropiques" in Manioc Usine, publication accompanying the exhibition Cookbook '19. La Panacée Art Center, Montpellier, France.

  • 2014 "Copacabana: modernity and informal systems" in Revue Stream Architecture, Paris, France. Roberto Cabot is also the co-editor of the magazine.

  • "New Perspectives for Rio de Janeiro" in Revue Stream Architecture, Paris, France.

  • "Implementar o espaço público" (Implementing public space) in Revue Stream Architecture, Paris, France.

  • 2014 "Joseph Gire e o Rio de Janeiro" (Joseph Gire and the city of Rio de Janeiro) in Joseph Gire e a construção do Rio de Janeiro moderno (Joseph Gire and the construction of modern Rio de Janeiro), Book on the work of the French architect Joseph Gire, organized and directed by Roberto Cabot, Casa da Palavra Edition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • 2013 "Glauco Rodrigues – A Hyperreal Brazil" in L'ange de l'histoire, Catalog, Beaux-Arts de Paris Edition, France.

  • 2012 "The Matter We Are Made Of" in Julian Schnabel – Plate Paintings, Catalog, Guy Pieters Gallery Edition, Knokke-Heist, Belgium.

  • 2011 "Crossed Correspondence" in collaboration with Nicolas Bourriaud, in "The Search for the Aleph," Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • 2008 "From the Banana to Totalflex" in The Tropics, Exhibition Catalog, Kerber Art Edition, Germany.

  • 2002 "The September 11 or the Slippage of Meaning" in Kunst nach Ground Zero (Art after Ground Zero), Dumont Verlag Publishers, Germany.

  • 1995 "Mercedes Carbonell" in Territorios indefinidos – Discursos sobre la construcción de la identidad femenina (Undefined Territories – Discourses on the Construction of Female Identity), Museum of Contemporary Art of Elche, Spain.

  • 1992 "Madrid 24 Hours" in Kunst in Spanien (Art in Spain), Kippenheuer und Witsch Publishers, Germany.

  • 1991 "Lugar", with Andrés Sáchez Robayna, M Más M Ediciones, Madrid.

Press:

  • 2023 "Relacional e radicante" (Relational and radicant) in the art magazine Babel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • 2019 "Du trope des tropiques" in Manioc Usine, publication accompanying the exhibition Cookbook '19. La Panacée Art Center, Montpellier, France.

  • 2014 "Copacabana: modernity and informal systems" in Revue Stream Architecture, Paris, France. Roberto Cabot is also the co-editor of the magazine.

  • "New Perspectives for Rio de Janeiro" in Revue Stream Architecture, Paris, France.

  • "Implementar o espaço público" (Implementing public space) in Revue Stream Architecture, Paris, France.

  • 2009 "Tropicalismo" in Kunstforum International, Germany.

  • "Neoconcretismo" in Kunstforum International, Germany.

  • "Tropisches Alphabet" (Tropical Alphabet) in Kunstforum International, Germany.

  • 1994 "Gordillo y Cabot," an interview with Spanish painter Luis Gordillo.

  • 1993 "Chaos violence et irréalité virtuelle" in Documents sur l'art contemporain, Paris, France.

  • 1992 "Poemas plásticos," a series of poems in Balcón Internacional, Madrid, Spain.

Conferences:

  • 2024 Palais des Beaux Arts, panel talk with Nicolas Bourriaud on the release of the book "Fructifications" (video).

  • 2023 EHESS, round table as part of the LAP symposium: Relation to the past and political action (video).

  • 2021 EHESS, seminar: Socio-philosophy of the present time, Paris, France.

  • 2019 La Panacée Art Center, Montpellier, France.

  • 2016 Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage), Arte e tecnologia (Art and Technology), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • 2015 Yale University, Praxis Center for Esthetics, lecture on the artist's work, Connecticut, USA.

  • 2014 WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization - UN), Geneva, Switzerland.

  • 2013 WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization - UN), Geneva, Switzerland.

  • 2011 Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, conference on the installation created by the artist at the museum, Brazil.

  • 235 Media, Symposium Kunst und Technologie (Symposium Art and Technology), Cologne, Germany.

  • 2005 HFbK (High School for Fine Arts), Hamburg. As part of the Annual International Forum HFbK, Germany.

  • 2001 235 Media, presentation of the artist's project for the São Paulo Biennial 2002, Cologne, Germany.