Chantal Pontbriand, On the situation of contemporary-art magazines – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Entrevues, Interviews
Authors: Chantal Pontbriand, Jacques Doyon

[Summer 2008] For thirty years, Chantal Pontbriand has been the guiding light of the magazine Parachute. From the beginning, she positioned it among the internationally significant magazines. In parallel with its publishing activities, the magazine organized a series of events and conferences that were just as notable. In April 2007, Parachute announced a suspension of […]

Publications J’ai VU, Parutions récentes – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Darkroom, Michel Campeau – Olivier Asselin

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Olivier Asselin | Artists: Michel Campeau

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michel Campeau Martin Parr (ed.), Nazraeli Press, 2007, 80 pp.

Cheryl Pagurek, Ephemera – Petra Halkes

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Cheryl Pagurek

[Summer 2008] Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, January 9 – February 3, 2008 Over the years, Cheryl Pagurek’s art practice has gradually shifted from sculpture and installations to printed photographs and, finally, in the present exhibition, to the ultimate Ephemera of moving digital imagery. The more fleeting her work becomes, however, the more strongly it shows […]

Lida Abdul – Sadira Rodrigues

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sadira Rodrigues | Artists: Lida Abdul

[Summer 2008] Centre A & Western Front, Vancouver January 23 – March 1, 2008 Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1973, Lida Abdul lived in Germany and India as a refugee after being forced to leave her homeland following the Soviet invasion of 1980. This brief biography seems critical, as it is an integral subject in […]

Clara Gutsche & David Miller, Retour de Rome – Julie-Ann Latulippe

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Julie-Ann Latulippe | Artists: Clara Gutsche, David Miller

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Charles Gagnon – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Charles Gagnon

[Summer 2008] Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montreal October 6 – October 27, 2007 The stark elegance of Charles Gagnon’s photographic oeuvre is one of its defining characteristics. It is always, however, underscored by powerfully enigmatic markers. Those indexical markers are like fingers pointing to unseen presences – or a transcendent reality. Gagnon was always a champion […]

Alain Laframboise, Parcours – Sylvain Campeau

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.

Made in Tehran – Six Women’s Views – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Mehraneh Atashi, Shadi Ghadirian

[Summer 2008] Cicero Galerie for Political Photography, Berlin, Germany November 20, 2007 – January 18, 2008 The interest in the exhibition Made in Tehran: Six Women’s Views was immense. This is not surprising with photography by artists who call themselves “the children of the [Islamic] Revolution.” They are the next generation, after Shirin Neshat, and […]

ReConstitutions – Jean-François Bélisle

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Kerry Tribe, Nancy Davenport

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. DHC – Art, Montréal, 22 février – 25 mai 2008

Pascal Grandmaison, Le grand jour – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Pascal Grandmaison

[Summer 2008] Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa January 14 – April 13, 2008 A rupture occurs when an action is played out in its conventional sequence and then witnessed in reverse. The action’s asynchronous interconnection serves as a narrative and visual conceit; time runs forwards and backwards in a rearward déjà vu. In static form, […]

Gilles Mahé – Vincent Bonin

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: Gilles Mahé

[SUmmer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. VOX, centre de l’image, Montréal 26 janvier – 15 mars, 2007

Archive Fever – Maria Antonella Pelizzari

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Antonella Pelizzari | Artists: Fazal Sheikh, Tacita Dean

[Summer 2008] International Center of Photography, New York, January 18 – May 4, 2008 An overall sense of clutter and discomfort pervades the installation of Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, the current exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) curated by Okui Enwenzor and modlelled on Jacques Derrida’s seminal essay […]

Preservation of Artworks in the Era of Obsolescence – Jean Gagnon

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Essays
Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: Gary Hill, Jim Campbell, Nam June Paik

[Summer 2008] by Jean Gagnon My father, like many in his generation,1 was a big fan of family photographs. Anything and everything was an excuse to take “slides,” as he called them. We were living in Quebec City, and, aside from the pictures taken at Christmas and on summer trips to Maine, he amassed good documentation […]

Photographic Projects for the Web, Digital Photo Albums – Sylvie Parent

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Essays
Authors: Sylvie Parent | Artists: Beat Brogle, Ethan Ham, Marika Dermineur, Philippe Zimmermann, Reynald Drouhin, Stéphane Degoutin, Timothé Rolin

[Summer 2008] by Sylvie Parent Thanks to the growing popularity of digital cameras, with their direct connectivity to computers, the number of images sent by e-mail and of photographs published on the network has been growing exponentially. The rapid appropriation of these technologies by the public has given rise to increasingly widespread activities such as […]

Fred Herzog, The City’s Fabric – Helga Pakasaar, Free Observer

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Helga Pakasaar | Artists: Fred Herzog

[Summer 2008] For more than fifty years, Fred Herzog has roamed the streets of Vancouver. His camera dwells on the raw fabric of the city: second-hand stores, restaurants, storefront windows, barbershops, and vacant lots, and the people using those spaces. The selection of images presented here stems from a body of work that comprises hundreds […]

Robert Walker, Mediascapes: New York, Montreal, Warsaw – Pierre Dessureault, Mercantile Labyrinths

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Robert Walker

[Summer 2008] In today’s world, the blurring between the urban landscape and the mediascape increasingly typifies our experience of our environment. Robert Walker’s body of work illustrates this blurring in a remarkable manner. The images presented in this portfolio span multiple continents and decades. Over the years, illusionary compositions and vibrant colours have become trademarks […]

Zoe Leonard, Analogue – Petra Halkes, Objects and merchandise

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Zoe Leonard

[Summer 2008] In her most recent series of photographic works, Zoe Leonard focuses her square viewfinder on small shops and businesses on three continents. This series, titled Analogue (1997–2007), documents discount stores, repair shops, second-hand stores, restaurants, and flea markets that are separated by thousands of miles. Yet, they share a common consumerism vocabulary and […]

Contemporary Flâneurs

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Summer 2008] by Jacques Doyon Photographing the street, over time, to record the evolution of the city and how it is used is a strategy that remains current. In these pages, it reveals the survival of small businesses in the era of globalization of markets, it allows us to follow the radical transformation of a […]

Ciel variable 79 – COLOURS OF THE CITY

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY

[Summer 2008] Photographing the street, over time, to record the evolution of the city and how it is used is a strategy that remains current. In these pages, it reveals the survival of small businesses in the era of globalization of markets, it allows us to follow the radical transformation of a city centre, and […]