Former Kortrijk belleman revives on stage
Caesens was a popular figure and a creative centipede. The performance is based on his diaries.
Based on diaries
40 students of the Kortrijk Conservatory have cast the diaries of belleman Peter Arthur Caesens into a performance.
“His diaries are a fantastic piece of writing full of landscapes, images, shapes, abstractions, paintings, works of art, visions, hallucinations,” says director Bart De Wildeman. “In other words, we got the whole performance as a gift.”
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Tribute to Peter Arthur
Peter Arthur Caesens died in 2020 in a nightly fire in his home. His library of probably one and a half million books and magazines went up in flames.
Director of Conservatorium Kortrijk Erik Desimpelaere: “What we are actually doing tonight is a ‘tribute’ to Peter, to our former student. It is very nice that we can make a collaboration between theater Antigone and the conservatory for this performance, what an incredible match.”
The performance sketches an idiosyncratic image of a young artist in search of his place in the world. Peter Arthur Caesens was a striking figure, a strange bird, a sleeper, but above all he was himself.