Charles-Frédérick Ouellet, The Fur Trade – Sylvain Campeau

Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Charles-Frédérick Ouellet

[October 28, 2020] Some artists choose to add ballast to the horizon of expectations that the title tends to create. This is obvious in the work of Charles-Frédérick Ouellet. Ouellet knows that titles condition our expectations, and so he chooses them in such a way that they are superimposed on his photographs (…) he forces them, in a way, to represent more than one might have thought at first glance.

Adam Basanta – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Adam Basanta

November 26, 2019 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Velibor Božović, In seeing, there is no right no wrong — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Velibor Božović

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Patrick Mikhail, Montréal Du 5 janvier au 16 février 2019 By Sylvain Campeau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here […]

Bertrand Carrière, Tout ceci est impossible — Sylvain Campeau, Time is Impossible

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Summer 2019] By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] Bertrand Carrière has had a long relationship with the film world. Before establishing himself as an artist, he took many pictures as a soundstage photographer. But such images must not be seen solely as the result of a professional practice that imposed frameworks and constraints on the creation of […]

Martin Désilets, Matière noire / L’index – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Martin Désilets

April 3, 2019 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Andreas Gursky – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Andreas Gursky

[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Commissaire : Ralph Rugoff Hayward Gallery, Londres Du 25 janvier au 22 avril 2018 Par Sylvain Campeau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete […]

Richard Mosse, The Castle – Sylvain Campeau, Human Traces

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Mosse

[Fall 2018] By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] Presented in this year’s edition of the annual Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival in Toronto, this exhibition was probably the festival’s centrepiece.1 It is a collection of works that seem to emanate from two series produced by Irish photographer Richard Mosse: The Castle, from which no doubt the most important […]

Jacynthe Carrier, Paysage : Faire le jour – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier

September 10, 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Myriam Yates, Gander Islands – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Myriam Yates

15 mai 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bill Viola – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bill Viola

[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. DHC/Art, Montréal Du 25 octobre 2017 au 11 mars 2018 By Sylvain Campeau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale here […]

Chih-Chien Wang – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

[Winter 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. L’hiver nous lie, puis vient le printemps Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain Du 31 août au 30 septembre 2017 Par Sylvain Campeau (French only)   [See the printed or digital version of […]

Sara A. Tremblay et Léna Mill-Reuillard – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Léna Mill-Reuillard, Sara A. Tremblay

November 9, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Joan Fontcuberta, Trauma – Sylvain Campeau, Autopsy of a Disappearance

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

[Fall 2017] By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] It has often seemed to me that Joan Fontcuberta’s particular aesthetic involves two complementary aspects. One aspect might bring together works such as Fauna Secreta, Sputnik, The Artist and the Photograph, and the Miracles & Co. project. In all of these series, the photographic image is presented as an […]

Manon Labrecque – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Manon Labrecque

May 26, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jacynthe Carrier – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier

June 18, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Mutations – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard, Isabelle Hayeur, Sébastien Cliche

March 31, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Marie-Claire Blais et Pascal Grandmaison – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Claire Blais, Pascal Grandmaison

February 5, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Walid Raad – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Walid Raad

February 18, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bertrand Carrière, Le capteur – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

November 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thomas Kneubühler – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

December 9, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Beam me up, Scotty! The Photographs Teleported from Google Street View – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Doug Rickard, Jon Rafman, Michael Wolf, Mishka Henner

August 5, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — It has been a few years now since artists discovered that they could put Google Street View to artistic and critical use. The best-known case is no doubt Jon Rafman, who is pursuing – inexorably, I might be tempted to say – his 9-eyes project, for which he shamelessly pillages the Internet image bank that contains pictures taken by directional cameras affixed to Google Street View (GSV) cars…

Gwenaël Bélanger, Dépeindre – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger

February 4, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bettina Hoffmann, Drain – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann

Novembre 28, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Henri Venne, Somewhere in Between – Sylvain Campeau, Painting Indebted to Photography

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Henri Venne

January 14, 2019 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — Henri Venne is a painter. It is painted matter that interests him. It is in this medium that he was educated, and it is also how he defines himself. Henri Venne is also a photographer, as the works that emerge from his creative process are photographs. He is also interested in how images are imbued with visual effects, places for various reflections…