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Authors: Claire Gravel | Artists: Michel Hébert
[Winter 1993] by Claire Gravel For a quarter of a century has been relentlessly photographing the same set of landscapes, all of whose horizons include the St. Lawrence River. At first glance, it seems that these untamed locales in contrast to the mere simulacrum that is every work of art reaffirm the permanence of the […]
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Authors: Ken Straiton | Artists: Ken Straiton
[Winter 1993] by Ken Straiton I have always been interested in cities. I love the country, but the city is food for thought and for my eyes. The real subject of cities is what interests all of us the most: human beings. For all the castigation of the city versus nature, the paradox is that […]
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Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Jean-François Bérubé
[Winter 1993] by Suzie Larivée Portrait: n. m. (Portret, pourtrait, 1175; p.p. of portraire “to draw or represent”)… Jeu du portrait, where a player must guess the name of a person (or a thing) by asking questions to which one responds with only Yes or No. Le Petit Robert, p. 1489 “Portraiture consists of […]
Ciel variable 25 - UNTITLED | Editorial
Authors: Marcel Blouin
[Winter 1993] by Marcel Blouin Art is looking for itself. Does not art look for itself and question itself? Would it be more accurate to say, rather, that art helps to throw light on the human being who is looking for himself? In a time when no one, anywhere, wishes to question things indeed, even […]