Melting into Being: Albert Vidal

Authors

  • Jolanta Rekawek Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

Keywords:

performance, telluric art, Albert Vidal, theatre, path to spiritual perfection

Abstract

This article presents the trajectory of spanish artist Albert Vidal, a great master of the art of movement and one of the most daring creators who oscillate between theater, performance, film, music and other genres such as telluric art that stands out in the extensive range of its potentialities. The artist inherits the legacy of Jacques Lecoq, Kazuo Ohno and Dario Fo to trace his multifaceted way in art, considered by him as a way of spiritual perfection that he will be able to transmit in the future following the example of his teachers.

Author Biography

Jolanta Rekawek, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

Professor Emeritus at the State University of Feira de Santana (Brazil), where she founded the Núcleo de Estudos da Espetacularide (NESP). She graduated in Hispanic Philology from the University of Warsaw, holds a PhD from the University of the Balearic Islands, and a postdoc from the University of Barcelona in the Department of Art History with a grant from the Coordination of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. She researches tradition as a marker of contemporaneity, art as a function of memory, and performance in literature and art.

Published

01-12-2025