Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2006] by Jacques Doyon In this issue, we feature works that, in their profusion and scope, offer a glimpse at the condition of the world as it is manifested and revealed through the mechanisms for fabrication and circulation of images. These image systems are of different dimensions, ranging from identity as it is defined […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2005-2006] by Jacques Doyon Seeing better, seeing farther; disrupting the representation, dissolving it: these approaches seem contradictory. Yet, paradoxically, they hew to a single frontier: that of the visible and representable, that of the limit of our capacity to see and our perceptual expectations. They meet in a common exploration of light as a […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue is about our ways of apprehending, representing, and acting in the contemporary city. The works presented here are all characterized by the inclusion within the images of a multiplicity of points of view and a distinct process of observation. They examine different aspects of an urbanity that is […]
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2005] by Jacques Doyon The works in this issue fall under the sign of things that are beyond comprehension. The list of catastrophic events that have left bitter traces on our democratic ideals in the last half-century is long. Current events dealt with in contemporary visual arts bring to mind some of these unimaginable […]
Ciel variable 66B - RAYMONDE APRIL | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Raymonde April
[Spring 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue of CV ciel variable is extraordinary in more than one way. Our portfolio pages are devoted exclusively to presenting a work that we feel is particularly important, Reading Room for the Working Artist, Angela Grauerholz’s most recent piece. This issue also includes an insert, produced in collaboration with […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue of CV ciel variable is extraordinary in more than one way. Our portfolio pages are devoted exclusively to presenting a work that we feel is particularly important, Reading Room for the Working Artist, Angela Grauerholz’s most recent piece. This issue also includes an insert, produced in collaboration with […]
Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2004] by Jacques Doyon This issue contains examples of current portrait practices that can be associated with various sub-categories of the genre: group of young people posing in the studio, series of self-portraits inspired by a play on the mask, the figure of the artist in the presence of his working materials. As different […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2004] by Jacques Doyon The optical devices, the renderings of light and perspectives, and the compositional modes inherited from the pictorial tradition form, even today, one of the foundations of our modes of representation, including for media based on the recording of the real and on digitization. The search for artistic legitimacy has long […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2004] by Jacques Doyon The works brought together in this issue offer a variety of avenues for understanding the ways in which the mise en scène of the self is created in response to the other and how this representation is received. Their grounds of exploration are diametrically opposed: from aristocratic dandyism to the […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2003] by Jacques Doyon Territory is one of the bases of identity. We are made of the places where we grow up and the communities into which we integrate ourselves, whether they are local or national, professional, personal, or linked to daily life. Each dimension of our pluralistic identities is materialized in concrete spaces, […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Patrick Altman, Vid Ingelevics
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Gallery 44, Toronto du 6 février au 8 mars 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2003] by Jacques Doyon In this issue, we delve into modern and vernacular architecture in countries, regions, and cities on the margins of the industrialized West. Architecture, the landscape, and the city are captured in a distanced way. No ethnographic inquiry, no deep documentary research, few interior photographs; instead, the emphasis is on façades […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2003] by Jacques Doyon The artworks presented in this issue make manifest the constraints intrinsic to the tools of vision. They inscribe in the image itself traces of the prostheses, framings, and postures inherent to the photographic act, and in opposition to the referential consensus they offer an exploration of the conditions of the […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2002] by Jacques Doyon This issue features the works of contemporary artists whose work involves the photographic archive. Because of its documentary aspect, photography was put to use in archives early and became an important component. In fact, it was this aspect that long kept photography from being recognized by the art world. Paradoxically, […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Book Reviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Mireille Loup, Raymonde April
[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Marc Trivier, Le paradis perdu Yves Gevaert éditeur et le Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Bruxelles, 2001, 192 p. Raymonde April, L’eau renversée avec Patrick Coutu, Charles Guilbert, Serge Murphy, […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Book Reviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions du Regard, Paris, 2002, 200 p., 100 illustrations
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2002] by Jacques Doyon Evergon, Marisa Portolese, and Olivier Christinat offer three very different ways of presenting the female body. Juxtaposed as they are here, they both encounter and confront beauty and age, attraction and maintaining distance, self-affirmation and abandonment in the other’s gaze. Nude or in intimate garb, all of these women are […]
Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2001-2002] by Jacques Doyon In spite of the diversity of their modalities and subjects, the works brought together here are notable for their common interest in the sutures and marks in the landscape, the zones where significant transformations and their underlying issues are revealed surreptitiously or, on the contrary, concealed. These fault lines, or […]
Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2001-2002] by Jacques Doyon The works in this issue will seem, at first glance, diametrically opposed to each other. They involve very different subjects, from monumental architecture (Carl Zimmerman) to the world of collectors (Veli Granõ) to the ruins and waste of consumer society (Ramona Ramlochand). And their visual means – their modes of […]
Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2001] by Jacques Doyon The terrorist attack of September 11 took the impact of the media image to new heights, with the inclusion in its scenario of the moment when various cameras enabled the entire world to witness the event live and left us for hours in fear of what might come next. For […]
Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2001] by Jacques Doyon The photographs of gardens and landscapes presented here are not about looking at plants, flowers, and trees for themselves, in the sense of botanical documentation. Rather, they attempt to highlight what rules over the arrangement of or investment in such places and what is at play in our reading of […]
Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2000-2001] by Jacques Doyon Identity is a precarious notion, constantly being redefined, at the intersection of many dimensions of belonging and identification. It is a self-definition, by and through the view of others. Identity is always a question of positionings and negotiations. The part of it that may seem to be inherent or original […]
Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2000] by Jacques Doyon The way we glance at objects in a familiar environment could be the connection between the photographic works assembled for this issue. Whether these objects are contained within the household, a workplace, or a small business, they inhabit and condition our spaces and ways of life. For Nicolas Baier, the […]
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
by Jacques Doyon Travel is an inherent aspect of contemporary civilization. Whatever the distance, we have to see other places. We are all tourists, in one way or another, always foreigners to someone or some society, which we observe with mixed feelings of curiosity, empathy, rejection, or fear. The image has become the heart of […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Geoffrey James
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The Lethbridge Project looks at both the city and nature, and at their transformations. Geoffrey James evokes the way in which landscape, whether in the heart of the city or […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2000] by Jacques Doyon The city, a constant subject of photography, distills all of the issues of society. It is both centre and periphery, a nucleus made of contradictory and hierarchical strata shooting out roots to invade an ever-broader territory. In this issue, we find images that are concerned not so much with the […]