Jens Dendoncker | Over de Romantiek **sold out**

A flipped aesthetics lesson Jens Dendoncker is many things: stand-up comedian, presenter, gifted lover, and big fan of art. He would now like to share that last-mentioned passion with the general public. In this show, Jens takes you along with his well-known enthusiasm through one of the wildest chapters in art history: Romanticism! That very period has a huge image problem. With the help of aggressive marketing and a handful of films starring Julia Roberts, we have come to associate 'romance' with scented candles around the bathtub, flower petals on the bedspread, and a bottle of massage oil for €11.49 (ordered before 23:59, delivered tomorrow!). With that, we seem to have completely forgotten an entire cultural-historical period that produced many of the greatest writers, painters, and thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Time to restore the real Romanticism to its former glory and test its relevance for our time. Were some Romantic landscape painters the first climate activists? Kan Goethe teach us something about modern relationships? Was de Franse painter Géricault the inventor of fake news? Discover it together with Jens in a flipped aesthetics lesson, in which he is not shy about a personal side note here and there.