Presentation of exhibition "In the Troubled Air..."

"In the Troubled Air..." showcases the transformative power of images and explores the way in which emotion has been represented in art. This exhibition by the thinker Georges Didi-Huberman invites us to live a poetic and critical experience, in a journey around 300 works by key figures of European culture.
The exhibition pays homage to Federico García Lorca and his idea of duende, a heightened state of emotion. It takes its title from a line in the poem “Ballad of the Moon” that opens Lorca’s Gypsy Ballads. The line (“In the troubled air”) refers to the atmosphere that is generated between us, the observers, and the image or work of art observed. It is in this “air” that the emotion or duende occurs.

The exhibition can be enjoyed as a poetic promenade, an interplay of free associations between over 300 works by artists such as Brecht, Camarón, Colita, Dalí, Giacometti, Goethe, Goya, Hugo, Jahnsen, Lorca, Mercadier, Miró, Pasolini, Picasso, Rodin, Trouvé and Zürn. This personal selection by Didi-Hubermann includes photographs, paintings, sculptures, films, engravings, books, sketches, poems and pieces of music that have Lorca’s concept of duende as their leading thread.