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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Donigan Cumming
[May 6, 2020] They say that he has an unrelenting eye and a creative fervour, that he is inspired by the desire to “destabilize and draw unremittingly from the margins of society, the watchable, and his own works.” He is Donigan Cumming, image artist, celebrated with a digital box setcontaining his twenty-six videos, as well […]
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Julien St-Georges Tremblay | Artists: Donigan Cumming
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Michel Guimont, Québec Du 25 février au 18 mars 2018 Par Julien St-Georges Tremblay (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On […]
Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Donigan Cumming, Matthieu Brouillard
September 26, 2017 [originally published in CV92 in Fall 2012] — Curated by Erin Silver, this bilingually (and cleverly) titled exhibition juxtaposed works by Matthieu Brouillard and Donigan Cumming, two artists who, although they are separated by a generation and consequently possess different measures of experience, are both well known to the Montreal art scene. The act of juxtaposition is, in itself, a strong curatorial statement…
Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Matthieu Brouillard | Artists: Donigan Cumming
June 21, 2016 [originally published in French in Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: Ariane Thézé, Donigan Cumming, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Sylvie Readman
[Fall 1999] by Martha Langford Last time (the first time), millennial anxiety was deferred by a strategic announcement from the church fathers: the population’s fears of the apocalypse were premature, for the year to worry about was not 1000, but 1033. Logical enough, and pretty clever, for by then one could expect the people to […]
Ciel variable 27 - PERSONAL DIARIES | Portfolios
Authors: Nicole Gingras | Artists: Donigan Cumming
[Summer 1994] by Nicole Gingras Harry’s Diary is at the heart of Donigan Cumming’s most recent work. Pretty Ribbons, a series he developed for over ten years. Marking an out step from all that this photographer has produced to date, Harry’s Diary stands out by its facture, its quasi amorous manner ol depicting its subjects […]