Seville: An exhibit at the Andalusia Center for Contemporary Arts (CAAC is the Spanish acronym) devoted to the audio visual work of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett (Dublin 1906 – Paris 1989) –penciled in by many scholars as the forerunner of video art and performance back in the 1980s and 90s- will remain open through Monday Dec. 20.
The project displays ten works (for TV, cinema, radio and an opera) created by the author of the well-known play entitled Waiting for Godot. The titles –including the Film feature presentation starred by Buster Keaton and shot by Alan Schneider– belong to the 1964-1988 period in which Beckett, unhappy with writing and his own communication possibilities, dedicated a considerable part of his time to audio visual creation.
Around this CAAC project –curated by Yara Sonseca and Javier Montes- an intense research line aimed at fostering new inquiries about the artist’s work as a playwright, novelist, critic and poet has been developed. For many, Beckett is one of the major representatives of the 20th century’s literary experimentalism within the boundaries of British modernism.
Beckett’s literary work –it must be noted that he was both an assistant and a disciple of novelist James Joyce- also hinges on ideas about painting. On the literature-plastic arts relationship, we suggest you to check Art according to Samuel Beckett (Reality as a Rail) published on http://www.babab.com/no09/samuel_beckett.htm, by researcher Andreu Navarra Ordoño.
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