Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION, Recent issues | Recent Issues
[Fall 2014]
These abstract works involving simple forms evoke methods of analogue photography to challenge the degree of veracity of the image. Imprint, inversion, and casting are some of the components transposed into other artistic media to re-evaluate our capacity to apprehend the real.
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Henri Venne, Jacinthe Lessard-L., Jon Knowles, Lorna Bauer, Thomas Ruff
Each in its way, the works in this issue’s portfolio speak of photography and analogue images by inscribing them in other artistic media (digital simulation, film, video, sculpture, painting). The imprint of light is thus materialized in abstract, simplified forms that multiply the images’ referential registers while relativizing the privileged link between photography and the […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Portfolios
Artists: Henri Venne, Jacinthe Lessard-L., Jon Knowles, Lorna Bauer, Thomas Ruff
These abstract works involving simple forms evoke methods of analogue photography to challenge the degree of veracity of the image. Imprint, inversion, and casting are some of the components transposed into other artistic media to re-evaluate our capacity to apprehend the real. THOMAS RUFF Photograms Thomas Ruff’s images, made with 3D digital imaging software, are […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Portfolios
Authors: Jacinto Lageira | Artists: Thomas Ruff
Given the impossible computer-made “photograms” in Thomas Ruff’s recent series – thus in line with Moholy-Nagy’s idea that one can make photographs without a camera (he made his own photograms) – we must immediately consider either a broadening of the notion of photography or its being subsumed, pure and simple, in another visual medium. That […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Portfolios
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Jacinthe Lessard-L., Jon Knowles, Lorna Bauer
It is quite uncommon for the association of two exhibitions to create a dialogue that becomes an artwork in itself. Yet, this is what Dazibao did by bringing together works by Jacinthe Lessard-L. and by the duo formed of Lorna Bauer and Jon Knowles.1 Their respective works, although different in tonality and look, intertwine to […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Henri Venne
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 […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Essays
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Serge Clément
I travelled to Quebec City to see Serge Clément’s exhibition Constellations on a snowy Sunday afternoon in April. I had little prior knowledge of the show, presented at VU, centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie from March 21 to April 20, 2014, save for its basic idea: to showcase Clément’s collection of […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Essays
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas’s earlier productions include Every Building on 100 West Hastings (2001), a nocturnal panorama of a block of buildings situated in a poor Vancouver neighbourhood, and the series of four photographs Crowds & Riots (2008), depicting reconstructions of crowd scenes and riots that took place in Vancouver during the twentieth century. In the spring […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Essays
Authors: Karen Irvine, Philippe Guillaume | Artists: Sohei Nishino
Karen Irvine, curator and museum associate director at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, recounted that it was after seeing Sohei Nishino’s work in Korea in 2010 and reading Rebecca Solnit that she had the idea for the Of Walking exhibition.1 Nishino is one of eight international contemporary artists whose works were in the […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jill Glessing
CounterIntelligence Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto 24 January to 16 March 2014 By Jill Glessing Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Véronique Leblanc | Artists: Darlene Laponse
Manif d’art 7 Résistance. Et puis, nous avons construit de nouvelles formes Québec Du 3 mai au 1er juin 2014 By Véronique Leblanc (French only) Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier | Artists: Nancy Davenport
Home Sweet Home À propos de l’inquiétude Dazibao, Montréal Du 27 mars au 17 mai 2014 By Sonia Pelletier (French only) Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mirna Boyadjian | Artists: Émile Béchard
La photographie de la ville arabe au XIXe siècle Centre canadien d’architecture (CCA), Montréal Du 30 janvier au 25 mai 2014 By Mirna Boyadjian (French only) Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Line Dezainde | Artists: Jacky Georges Lafargue, Louis Couturier
Louis Couturier et Jacky Georges Lafargue Asbestos Storm Sporobole, centre en art actuel, Sherbrooke Du 13 mars au 27 avril 2014 By Line Dezainde (French only) Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann
Bettina Hoffmann Drain Oboro, Montréal Du 18 janvier au 22 février 2014 By Sylvain Campeau (French only) Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Nicolas Mavrikakis | Artists: Caroline Hayeur
Caroline Hayeur Adoland Maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal Du 15 mars au 27 avril 2014 By Nicolas Mavrikakis (French only) Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews
Authors: Cheryl Simon
Vera Frenkel ed. Sigrid Schade, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013, 310 pp. By Cheryl Simon Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews
Authors: Erika Wicky
Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography Ariella Azoulay Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2014, 262 pages By Erika Wicky (French only) Acheter cet article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews
Authors: Michael Frederick Rattray
The Contemporary, the Common: Art in a Globalizing World Chantal Pontbriand Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013, 462 pp. By Michael Frederick Rattray Purchase this article
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier
The Photobook: A History Volume III, ed. Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, New York: Phaidon Press, 2014, 304 pp. Clément Dirié et Michèle Thériault (dir.), Joana Hadjithomas + Khalil Joreige, Zurich, JRP Ringier ; Montréal, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, 2013, 160 p., angl. et fr. France Choinière (dir.), Home Sweet Home. À propos de […]
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Interviews
Authors: Jill Glessing, MaryAnn Camilleri | Artists: Evgenia Arbugaeva
[Fall 2014] MaryAnn Camilleri is the executive director of the Magenta Foundation. After completing her BA in photographic arts at Ryerson University, Toronto-born Camilleri moved to New York, where she worked at Magnum Photo for ten years. In 2003, she returned to Toronto and, with the goal of publishing high-quality art books and promoting Canadian […]