The Day the Clown Cried
Charlotte Lagro
Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège
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- Title
- The Day the Clown Cried
- Gallery
- Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège
- Year
- 2015
- Duration
- 10 min 40 s
- Format & Technical
Double channel, loop, HD video, Colour, Sound
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
- Music
- Choreography
- Cast
- Special Thanks
The video The Day the Clown Cried explores the power of performative arts in dealing with the legacy of WWII. We follow Dönci Bánki, a mime artist of Jewish descent as he visits Auschwitz-Birkenau combined with fragments of the filming of Jerry Lewis' The Day the Clown Cried.
The video diptych The Day the Clown Cried explores the power of performative arts in dealing with the legacy of WWII through three post-war generations. We follow Dönci Bánki, a mime artist of Hungarian Jewish descent as he visits Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. The video features a series of dances by Bánki on-site that are combined with rare fragments of the filming of The Day the Clown Cried, 1972, forming a parallel world to the mime artist in Auschwitz in the present day. The Day the Clown Cried is a movie by American comedian Jerry Lewis about a clown who is sent to a concentration camp. Considered too distasteful by art critics, Lewis decided never to release the film.
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Charlotte Lagro
- Artist
1989, Maastricht
Charlotte Lagro lives and works in the Netherlands. She won the Hermine van Bers Fine Art Award in 2015. Charlotte was a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, USA, and RAVI in Liège, Belgium. Currently she is a resident at the department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. Charlotte participated in numerous group exhibitions and has had solo exhibitions at CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium and Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Belgium.
She participated in group exhibitions in the Bonnefantenmuseum – Maastricht, Netherlands, SHUNCK* – Heerlen, Netherlands, Format Art Space – Copenhagen, Denmark, Officielle Art Fair – Paris, France among others. Charlotte Lagro is represented by Galerie Nadja Vilenne.
She will present a new solo project at the Biennial of Photography Liège in August 2016.
Las update 5th May, 2017.
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Galerie Nadja Vilenne
- Address
- 5 rue Commandant Marchand, 4000, Liège, Belgium
- Phone
- 0032 4 227 19 91
- Website
- www.nadjavilenne.com
Galerie Nadja Vilenne was founded in Liege in 1998. The gallery works closely with twenty artists, both emerging and internationally established. Alongside its exhibitions Nadja Vilenne produces publications, edits books, undertakes external curatorial projects, and participates in several international art fairs. The gallery represents Jacques Charlier, Honoré d’O, Olivier Foulon, Eleni Kamma, Suchan Kinoshita, Aglaia Konrad, Charlotte Lagro, Sophie Langohr, Jacques Lizène, Emilio LópezMenchero, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Benjamin Monti, John Murphy, Pol Pierart, Eran Schaerf, Valérie Sonnier, Jeroen Van Bergen, Raphaël Van Lerberghe, Walter Swennen, and Marie Zolamian.