Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH

Full North / Vrai Nord

September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

Today, the North is making economic headlines, as it has become a new Eldorado for societies stalked by the dream of continual growth. This territory – homeland to First Nations, an ecosystem vital to the entire continent, and a vast pool of natural resources – is nevertheless mostly unknown to the general public. National mythology […]

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True North

Portfolios
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September 1, 2012 by cv-content

Three experiences of the north, real or perceived, that bring us face to face with the realities of a little-known region undergoing accelerated transformation. The north is at once home to a sparse population, an ecosystem vital to the entire continent, and a vast resource base that is in the sights of developers as ever […]

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Thomas Kneubühler, Under Currents – Pierre Dessureault, Currents

Portfolios
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

Thomas Kneubühler’s Under Currents takes us through the hydroelectric installations at James Bay and the complex network of exchanges between North and South that their construction has established. What is initially striking in this coherent whole is the rigorous organization of various elements in a series of groupings to form a well-marked path that is […]

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Andreas Rutkauskas, Virtually There – Geneviève Chevalier, Hiking the Trails of What Is it Come

Portfolios
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

I found out about the Virtually There project in 2009 during a brief visit to the Gushul Studio, which offers a residency program run by the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. At the time, Andreas Rutkauskas was staying there and preparing to make another of his outings in the mountains. The Gushul Studio is located […]

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Eamon Mac Mahon, Landlocked – Isa Tousignant, The View from Up Here : Perspective on the Wild

Portfolios
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

My first encounter with Canadian photographer and artist Eamon Mac Mahon was when I worked as an editor for a travel magazine, at which he was the stuff of local legend. He had shot a story about the Bahamas for which he’d risked life and limb: on a tiny, rickety plane with, lore dictates, more […]

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Chronicles of a Disappearance : Seeing What Disappears – Charles Guilbert

Essays
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

Sometimes, thanks to a curator’s insight, a group exhibition be comes a work of art in itself. This is the case for “Chronicles of a Disappearance,” in which John Zeppetelli not only presents five artworks of an extraordinary density but, in bringing them together, weaves networks of meaning that greatly strengthen each artwork. Zeppetelli began […]

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Taryn Simon, Foiling the Truth: The Effects of the Real and Fictional in Documentary Photography – Mirna Boyadjian

Essays
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

Howard Becker wrote an essay called “Do Photographs Tell the Truth?” in 1986, and the question still seems pertinent. Although today we admit that the photographic image constitutes a (re)construction of the world and not a reproduction of reality, a certain legalistic conception of photographs tends to be maintained. Despite formatting, storyboarding, or fictionalization, the […]

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Paul Graham : In the Present – Alexis Desgagnés

Essays
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

This spring, the Pace Gallery in New York, a temple to photography since the early 1980s, had a show of recent works by English photographer Paul Graham in one of its locations in the Chelsea neighbourhood. The Present, the works which have also been published in a book by the English publisher MACK, is the […]

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Christian Marclay, The Clock – Louis Cummins

Exhibition Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

Christian Marclay The Clock Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa Du 30 mars au 6 août 2012 Par Louis Cummins (French only) Purchase this article

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À louer / For Rent : UMA, various venues, Montreal – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

À louer / For Rent UMA, various venues, Montreal By James D. Campbell Purchase this article

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Jeremy Borsos, Le retour du 8 mm – Caroline Bem

Exhibition Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

[Fall 2012] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jeremy Borsos Le retour du 8 mm Commissaire : Peter White SBC Galerie d’art contemporain, Montréal Du 4 février au 31 mars 2012 Purchase this article

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Patrice Duhamel, Le catalogue des vents qui ont soufflé – Hélène Brunet Neumann

Exhibition Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

Patrice Duhamel Le catalogue des vents qui ont soufflé Centre d’art et de diffusion Clark, Montréal Du 8 mars au 14 avril 2012 Par Hélène Brunet Neumann (French only) Purchase this article

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Matthieu Brouillard and Donigan Cumming, Coming through the Fog: Les rencontres de Matthieu Brouillard et de Donigan Cumming – Zoë Tousignant

Exhibition Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

Matthieu Brouillard and Donigan Cumming Coming through the Fog: Les rencontres de Matthieu Brouillard et de Donigan Cumming FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal 19 March to 20 April 2012 Par Zoë Tousignant Purchase this article

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Pierre Blache, Non loin de Chandigarh – Mona Hakim

Exhibition Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

September 21, 2017 [originally published in French in CV92 in Fall 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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Jon Rafman, The Nine Eyes of Google Street View / Emmanuel Galland, De Lafontaine à Racine, en passant par Bossé et Talbot – Catherine Lebel Ouellet

Exhibition Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

September 18, 2017 [originally published in French in CV92 in Fall 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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Martin Désilets, Entre des fragments de choses, d’espace et de temps – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

September 13, 2017 [originally published in French in CV92 in Fall 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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Linda-Marlena Bucholtz Ross, La beauté sauvage des chantiers de Montréal – Dan Antonat

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH

September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

September 11, 2017 [originally published in French in CV92 in Fall 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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Martha Langford and John Langford, A Cold War Tourist and His Camera – Peter White

Book Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

September 7, 2017 [originally published in CV92 in Fall 2012] — On the one hand, there are the snaps by career civil servant Warren Langford who, in 1963, unaccountably found himself part of domestic and overseas military-civilian familiarization tours of Cold War hot spots.1 On the other hand, there are his daughter Martha, an authority in the scholarly study of vernacular photography, and son John, a political scientist whose expertise includes public sector ethics…

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New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Book Reviews
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September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

[Fall 2012] Des essais Mutations, perspectives sur la photographie / Perspectives on Photography (Paris Photo, Steidl, France / Allemagne, sous la direction de / edited by Chantal Pontbriand, 2012, 414 p., fr. / angl.) a été publié à l’occasion de la foire Paris Photo et constitue un ouvrage de premier plan sur l’évolution et l’état […]

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Stephen Bulger, The State of the Contemporary Photography Market – Jacques Doyon

Interviews
Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH

September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

September 5, 2017 [originally published in CV92 in Fall 2012] — Stephen Bulger studied at Ryerson University in Toronto. He was the founding director of the Ryerson Gallery, where he managed over thirty exhibitions. in 1994, he opened the Stephen Bulger gallery to exhibit and sell contemporary and historical photographs, with a special emphasis on the documentary tradition and Canadian historical photographs.

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