Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Portfolios
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Serge Clément
March 1, 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — By Alexis Desgagnés. In 2014 in Quebec City, photographer Serge Clément and I presented the exhibition Constellations, composed of a corpus of photobooks drawn from Clément’s impressive collection…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Angela Grauerholz, Chih-Chien Wang, Gabor Szilasi, Luc Courchesne, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Michel Campeau, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Yan Giguère, Yann Pocreau
Octobre 19, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — This round-robin exhibition featured powerful and evocative images of the original site of the recently abandoned Royal Victoria Hospital. Eleven Montreal artists were invited by the RBC Art and Heritage Centre of the McGill University Health Centre to tour the original site…
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Michel Campeau, Serge Clément
September 24, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Essays
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Serge Clément
January 9, 2019 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — 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 photobooks…
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Serge Clément
[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal Du 10 juin au 1er août 2009
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Clément
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence du 16 mai au 18 juin 2000
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 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Claude Lemagny | Artists: Serge Clément
[Fall 1996] Clément’s technique as an artist does not differ from his technique as a reporter-photographer, which he is as well. But it is absolutely enough to “bring the earth closer and establish a world,” to take up Martin Heidegger’s fundamental thought. “Bring the earth closer” means bringing to the surface that which is in […]
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Artists: Serge Clément
[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Claude Thibault | Artists: Charles Gagnon, Frederick Simpson Coburn, Serge Clément
[Fall 1995] by Claude Thibault Curator of Photography, Musée du Québec In early 1994, the Musée du Québec decided to create a sector devoted specifically to photography. A number of reasons sparked the adoption of this policy. First, the project fits naturally into its development program in its role of curator of our artistic heritage […]