Gabor Szilasi – Ciel variable Magazine

Szilasi & Szilasi — Fanny Bieth et Clément Willer

Ciel variable 115 - THE MARCH OF THE WORLD | Exhibition reviews, Recensions d'expositions
Authors: Clément Willer, Fanny Bieth | Artists: Andrea Szilasi, Gabor Szilasi

[Summer 2020] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Deux Poissons, Montréal Du 17 octobre au 23 novembre 2019 Par Fanny Bieth et Clément Willer (En Français seulement) Acheter ce numéro

ENTR’ACTE . A Collective Portrait of the Royal Victoria Hospital – James D. Campbell

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…

Photography in Canada, 1960–2000, From Photographic Art to the World of Images – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Angela Grauerholz, David McMillan, Gabor Szilasi, George Hunter, Jeff Wall, Jim Breukelman, Jin-Me Yoon, John Massey, Ken Lum, Lynne Cohen, Nina Raginsky, Robert Burley

June 22, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — It seems less and less possible to analyze photography and photographic history without talking about production protocols, dissemination strategies, and contexts for conservation and display in public collections. Andrea Kunard situates her undertaking in regard to this position from the start…

Gabor Szilasi, The Art World in Montreal, 1960‒1980 – Zoë Tousignant, On Emotion and the Photographic Archive

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Gabor Szilasi

June 29, 2021 [originally published in CV108 in Winter 2018] — Photographer Gabor Szilasi was born in Hungary in 1928 and immigrated to Canada in 1957. Soon after settling in Montreal, Szilasi began to photograph the many art openings that he and his wife, artist Doreen Lindsay, regularly attended…

Images of Montreal. Some notable projects on Montreal neighbourhoods – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, Clara Gutsche, David Miller, Gabor Szilasi, Michel Campeau, Miki Gingras, Patrick Dionne, Roger Charbonneau

May 12, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — Over the years, Montreal has been the subject of a number of major documentary projects. We might think of Gabor Szilasi’s prolific production – in particular, as he recorded development in the city, his photographs of St. Catherine Street (1977–79) in which he immortalized the configuration of the stores along the street…

Montrealities

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, Clara Gutsche, David Miller, Gabor Szilasi, Michel Campeau, Miki Gingras, Patrick Dionne, Robert Walker, Roger Charbonneau

[Winter 2017] Over the years, many photographers have explored Montreal and its neighbourhoods. Their images have captured portraits of residents, the colour and composition of the streets and commercial arteries, and the mixture of cultures that contribute to the quality and diversity of a city, as well as the commitment of residents who create the […]

Gabor Szilasi, A Portrait in Interiors – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Interviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Benoit Aquin, Gabor Szilasi

November 4, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Eighty-eight years old. Decorum would have us qualify this age as venerable. Anyone who divides this number into decades will better measure the span of a lifetime devoted almost entirely to photography. We know about the immense contribution of Gabor Szilasi, who was born in Budapest in 1928 and arrived in Quebec after leaving Hungary in 1956, to the history of Quebec photography…

SITEGEIST – THE SPIRIT OF A PLACE – Ciel variable’s first fund-raising campaign

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Essays
Artists: Alain Paiement, Angela Grauerholz, Chuck Samuels, Gabor Szilasi

[Spring/summer 2013] Works created for the first Ciel variable fund-raising campaign This campaign is based on the idea of bringing together a collector and a photographer to create an original artwork on the theme “the spirit of a place” – a place selected by the collector and interpreted by the artist. The exercise offers a […]

Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie 2012 – Jean-François Nadeau

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Essays
Authors: Jean-François Nadeau | Artists: Beatrix von Conta, Gabor Szilasi, Guillaume D. Cyr, Jocelyne Alloucherie, Martin Beaulieu, Maryse Goudreau, Yana Ouellet

December 18, 2017 [originally published in French in CV93 in Winter 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Leaping Forward: The Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s New Photographic Collecting Practices – Zoë Tousignant

Ciel variable 89 - PLACES | Essays
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Alain Chagnon, Brian Merrett, Gabor Szilasi, John Max, Normand Rajotte, Roger Charbonneau

March 14, 2017 [originally published in CV89 in Fall 2011] — The acquisitions of Quebec photography from the 1960s to the 1980s are thus part of the institution’s current recognition of – and seemingly unquenchable gusto for – photographic imagery of all kinds, and these acquisitions have added considerably to the growing photography collection, which now totals over 1,500 works.

Gabor Szilasi, Un certain regard – Martha Langford, Gabor Szilasi : An Appreciation

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Gabor Szilasi

[Spring 2010] Over the years, Gabor Szilasi has assembled a remarkable portrait of Quebecers as a community and of the Montreal urban landscape that earned him the Prix Borduas in 2009. Perhaps it took a com- pletely new eye to tease into visibility the multiple fibres woven into Quebec society. Szilasi’s portraits form a major […]

Recollecting home, Gabor Szilasi’s photographs of Exile and Return – Sharon Murray

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Essays
Authors: Sharon Murray | Artists: Gabor Szilasi

[Fall 2006] What is less well known is that he photographed in Hungary around the time of his flight to Canada in 1957 and again during his return to Budapest more than twenty years later. Photography was fundamental to Szilasi’s experience: it acted as a means for him to both articulate and negotiate the disjunction […]

Énergie et aménagement : les villes industrielles planifiées du Québec, 1890-1950 – Franck Michel

Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Gabor Szilasi

[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Canadien d’Architecture Du 6 mars au 26 mai 1996