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The Air Is on Fire was a retrospective on the art work of artist and filmmaker David Lynch using themes from his childhood, adolescent, and adult life. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [ excessive citations ] It ran from the February 24 to May 27, 2007, at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris. [2] The exhibition was also presented in 2009 in Moscow, Russia, [12] updated with a series of lithographs made in 2007–8. [13]

The exhibition was later shown at Gl Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark from September 26, 2010, to January 16, 2011. [14] [15]

The soundscape accompanying the exhibition was released as a CD in 2007. It was subsequently reissued on vinyl through Sacred Bone Records on the Record Store Day of 2014. [16]

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