Roberto Cabot is a Brazilian visual artist.

Career

Cabot is a painter, sculpture, musician. He started mixing the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 with art in 1986 and from then on the Internet has been present in his work. In 2008 he had a big piece at the Martin Gropius Bau

Martin Gropius Bau

Martin-Gropius-Bau, originally a museum of applied arts and a listed historical monument since 1966, is a well-known Berlin exhibition hall located at Niederkirchnerstraße 7 in Berlin-Kreuzberg.- History and architecture :...

 in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 where he created an installation that showed simultaneously several live images from webcam

Webcam

A webcam is a video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet, or Wi-Fi.Their most popular use is the establishment of video links, permitting computers to act as videophones or videoconference stations. This common use as a video camera...

s all around the tropics. With this installation he completed his series about the "Aleph". The aleph

Aleph

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 is an intercession point where all space and time are concentrated and has been beautifully described like that in Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...

' literature.

Roberto Cabot is in many public and private collections, including the MASP and MAM - Gilberto Chateaubriand, in Brazil, Deutsche Bank and Hoffmann, in Germany, and CAAM - Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderna, in Spain.

• 2008 Galerie Scala Berlin, "Alephology"; Martin Gropius Bau, "Tropics, Vision from the Center of the Earth", Berlin, Geramany
• 2007 MAM - Museu de Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro, Novas Aquisições; Orlândia - Ocupação coletiva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2006 Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Praia Reflexo; Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Köln. Germany; CCBB, Futebol, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; SESC Pinheiros, Futebol, São Paulo, Brazil; Fundação Telemar, Câmaras de Luz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2005 Galeria Manoel Macedo, Sensacionema, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Galeria Carmen de la Calle, El papel del papel, Madrid, Spain.
• 2004 Gal. Lurixs, Roberto Cabot, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, "Carnaval", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Arquivo Geral, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2002 XXV Bienal de São Paulo, Brasil; Kunst und Schock- Das Geheimnis des Anderen, Haus am Lutzowsplatz, Berlin, Germany.