In the latest Akimblog, Terence Dick took some time to share his thoughts about 18:Beckett and his impressions were very positive. We're thrilled!
Re-posted from Akimblog, Toronto, December 7, 2006.
The big name group show (including heavy hitters like Gary Hill and Stan Douglas) at the Blackwood Gallery is currently tempting downtowners to make the trek out to U of T’s Mississauga campus. The exhibition, 18:Beckett, marks Samuel B’s 100th birthday and is as intriguing and problematic as these sorts of thematic mash-ups go. My knowledge of the Irish writer’s oeuvre is limited to a couple plays, a novel and the pop cultural trivia his name inspires, so I didn’t try too hard to connect each work to SB (though I’m sure curator Séamus Kealey attempts it in his catalogue essay and, if you’re interested, the whole text is available as a pdf on the gallery’s website). The highlight for me was finally seeing Bruce Nauman’s Clown Torture, though I always imagined it to be significantly more torturous. Actually, the most fun was tracking down half the exhibit (spread as it is over five sites) to a discreetly marked door that housed offices for a now abandoned library. Hooray for alternative spaces!
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