Shoah and comic strip
Contemporary memory has a special place for the Shoah, an unprecedented event in history. The characteristic of any event is to be historicized, mediatized, in short to become a subject of fiction. The Shoah could not escape it. Not without prudence, errors and trial and error but also with genius, the comic strip has taken hold of the Shoah.
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It is this historical and artistic journey that is proposed to you in what we call the 9th art by questioning the visual sources of these representations, their relevance, their scope and their limits. How the Holocaust was mobilized by fiction, whether in comics or in the Franco-Belgian comic strip with La Bête est morte! of Calvo, where the theme is present since 1944. Almost 75 years later, lines of force, almost a grammar, emerge from these narrations and representations whose this exhibition will attempt, for the first time, to draw up an inventory.
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On June 8, 2017, starting at 5 p.m., plates from the comic strip “Le Spirou de Yann et Schwartz” and, in preview, original drawings of the upcoming album “Le Spirou d'Émile Bravo” The Journal of an Ingénu will be unveiled to the public in the exhibition Shoah and comic strip. These plates and drawings will remain visible in the exhibition until the end.
A presentation of these new boards will be made during the guided tour of the exhibition Shoah and comic strip on 8 June at 7.30 p.m.
1st floor, free entry.
Follow the exhibition on social media: #ExpoShoahBD
This exhibition is extended until 7 January 2018.
Free guided tours of the exhibition for individuals on Thursdays 14 and 28 September, 26 October, 9 and 23 November, 7 and 21 December 2017, from 19:30 to 21:00. Without prior reservation.
Publication
Catalogue of the exhibition Shoah and comic strip, a co-edition Mémorial de la Shoah/Éditions Denoël Graphic 2017 (144 pages, 200 illustrations) – 29,90€
For sale at the bookstore of the Holocaust Memorial and on the online bookstore.
The catalogue received a special mention from the 2017 CatalPa Prize.
Partners of the exhibition
SCIENTIFIC COMMISSARIAT
Didier Pasamonik, a comic book publisher and journalist, and Joël Kotek, historian, Free University of Brussels.
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER AND COORDINATION
Marie-Édith Agostini, assisted by Géraldine Franchomme, Holocaust Memorial.
Scenography
Gilles Belley.
Graphic design
Cécilia Génard and Julien Martin.
Painting: © Enki Bilal – Credit: Holocaust Memorial
