David Lagos and Alfredo Lagos

The concert is a reflection on inevitable destiny, light and shadow, celebration and mourning, the ultimate truth that only art is capable of sustaining.

Martinicos le di a mi cuerpo takes the form of two shows, independent yet connected, which can be seen on 10 and 11 July. Both engage in conversation with the strength and instinct of tradition in search of this coveted, elusive Duende, here colloquially named Martinico.

Five of the most renowned and evocative artists on the current flamenco scene invoke the figure of the “duende”, the mystery and one-of-a-kind force that Federico García Lorca defined as the very soul of creation. This is a theatre and musical journey through light and shadow, life and death, body and voice. 

If anything defines flamenco, it is its ability to move, to ignite the air, and to transform pain into beauty. Martinicos le di a mi cuerpo offers us two complementary visions of an art that, rooted in tradition, continues to reinvent itself with a passion that never tires of being reborn.

The show is part of the exhibition “In the Troubled Air... Image, emotion, utopia”, curated by Georges Didi-Huberman at the CCCB, which takes as its starting point the Romance de la luna, luna [Ballad of the Moon Moon], the first poem of Lorca’s Romancero Gitano.

Artistic credits

Music performed by: David Lagos (cante), Alfredo Lagos (guitar)

 

A production by: CCCB
In collaboration with: El Dorado – Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa