Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Florence Chantoury-Lacombe | Artists: Alain Laframboise
June 8, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gabrielle Desgagné-Duclos | Artists: Alain Laframboise
September 11, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Laframboise
February 26, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Laframboise
[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Jocelyne Lupien | Artists: Alain Laframboise
[Summer 1997] Alain Laframboise’s photographic stillevens are imbued with the specific rhetoric of the hyper-codified genre that is still-life: the deliberate placement of inanimate and enigmatic objects; directional, dramatic, theatrical illumination (chiaroscuro); flat, shallow background against which the objects are projected; striking trompe-l’œil effect (which photography does well); hidden symbolic content that invites reflection on […]