Guest editor : Anne Bénichou

Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Essays
Authors: Anne Bénichou

[Fall 2010] documents [de] PERFORMANCE Historic performances are currently being updated in different forms: exhibitions, appropriations, remediations, and re-enactments. These practices raise a number of questions about the status of performance documentation (photos, videos, and films in particular) and how it is interpreted, adressed here through multiple recent examples. DAVID TOMAS Tim Clark. Reading the […]

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Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2010] by Jacques Doyon MoMA’s major retrospective of the work of Marina Abramović marks museum institutions’ full recognition of the field of performance. In a way, this exhibition is the logical outcome of a movement of reactualization of historic performances that has been underway for more than a decade and to which Abramowic has […]

Ciel variable 86 – PERFORMANCE

Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE

[Fall 2010] Historic performances are currently being updated in different forms: exhibitions, appropriations, remediations, and re-enactments. These practices raise a number of questions about the status of performance documentation (photos, videos, and films in particular) and how it is interpreted, addressed here through multiple recent examples. ÉDITORIAL DOSSIER EXPOSITIONS LECTURES PAROLES   Purchase this issue

The Malcolmsons Collection : A passion for Photography – Claude Baillargeon

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Interviews
Authors: Claude Baillargeon

March 30, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — The complete interview with Ann & Harry Malcolmson is now available online. For the past twenty years, they have dedicated themselves to the study and collecting of photography. With a particular interest in historical material drawn from the medium’s diverse aesthetic history, they have assembled one of Canada’s most distinctive collections.

Raymonde April, Equivalences 1-4 – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Raymonde April

April 6, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Why is it that Raymonde April’s art always occupies the foreground of my consciousness when I think about photography – about what it is and what it can be ? Even as flashier and more graphically cinematographic photography rules the proverbial roost in the art world right now, April, a maverick artist, has long since staked out her territory and made it her wholly and uniquely her own.

Isabelle Hayeur, L’envers du décor – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

April 14, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Entracte : films d’un futur héroïque – Virginie Doré Lemonde

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde

April 18, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

La subversion des images : Surréalisme, photographie, film – Matthieu Brouillard

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Matthieu Brouillard | Artists: BrassaÏ, Claude Cahun

April 21, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Contrainte / Restraint – Jean Gagnon

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: José Carlos Martinat

April 25, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

David Hoffos, Scenes from the House Dream – Petra Halkes

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: David Hoffos

April 28, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Despite the impending calamities hidden in many of the works in Scenes from the House Dream, David Hoffos’s gathering of twenty installations into one, dark, enveloping space feels warm and fuzzy. True, a monster lurks under a boat, vapours rise in a noisy forest, and snow drifts through the open windows of a deserted house, but the exhibition curated by Shirley Madill remains appealing and enchanting.

Nelson Henricks – Charles Guilbert

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Nelson Henricks

May 2, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, INT-SCÈNE-JOUR – Colette Tougas

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila

May 5, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chuck Samuels, Before Photography – Virginie Doré Lemonde

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Chuck Samuels

May 9, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Art et activisme, Un monde dans lequel plusieurs mondes s’inscrivent – René Viau

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: René Viau | Artists: Gregory Sholette, John Jordan

May 12, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Stan Douglas, Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971 – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Essays, Portfolios
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Stan Douglas

May 16, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — The impressive piece of public art addresses the very nature of public space. It is named after the two streets that cross at the north corner of the Woodward’s building, on which the artwork is installed. The image inhabits space like a sculpture, grandly overlooking the public and private courtyards of the new complex in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

War at a Distance. Blake Fitzpatrick, Karyn Sandlos, Roger Simon, curators – Amish Morrell

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Portfolios
Authors: Amish Morrell | Artists: Allyson Mitchell, Graeme Smith, Louie Palu, Richard Johnson, Stephen Andrews, Suzanne Opton

May 19, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — The theme of the exhibition War at a Distance, presented by the TPW Gallery in Toronto, was media representations of war in the context of debates over the Canadian presence in Afghanistan.

Emanuel Licha, R for Real & Bagdads – Stephen Horne, Dwelling : A Set-up

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Portfolios
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Emanuel Licha

May 24, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — These two works by Emanuel Licha are based on his interest in urban settings re-created for police or military training camps. The intention is to reveal the fully operational role of fiction in the reality of conflicts and in the composition of our portrayals of the foreign.

Sophie Ristelhueber, Eleven Blowups – Jacinto Lageira, The Poetics of Facts

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Portfolios
Authors: Jacinto Lageira | Artists: Sophie Ristelhueber

May 26, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — In Eleven Blowups, Sophie Ristelhueber uses elements of her own photographs to re-create images of bomb craters produced by the media. In showing the traces of destruction, these images, true and false at once, portray not the specificity of a single story and place but the experience of collapse.

Conflict

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Portfolios
Artists: Emanuel Licha, Sophie Ristelhueber, Stan Douglas

Bombs opening up craters in streets, training camps that look like urban neighbourhoods, media perceptions of the war in Afghanistan, a look back at the riot as background for an urban renewal project… and images that use representation and fiction to try to convey these realities. SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER Eleven Blowups Poetics of Facts Jacinto Lageira […]

Representation of conflict

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Spring 2010] by Jacques Doyon This issue looks at the representation of conflicts and wars. Whether they are distant battles, terrorist attacks, or riots taking place in the heart of our cities, their communication to the public is often dominated by spectacularization and slanted views. The artists whose works brought together here address situations that […]

Ciel variable 85 – CONFLICT

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT

[Summer 2010] Bombs opening up craters in streets, training camps that look like urban neighbourhoods, media perceptions of the war in Afghanistan, a look back at the riot as background for an urban renewal project… and images that use representation and fiction to try to convey these realities.   EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXHIBITIONS VOICES   […]

Interview with Collector Glen Bloom – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Interviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: John Massey, Lynne Cohen, Roy Arden

[Spring 2010] Glen Bloom’s interest in contemporary art began during his first year of law school in Edmonton. The building adjoining the law faculty was that of the fine arts faculty; by chance or design, Bloom found that he was spending more time in the latter than the former, and it piqued his interest in […]

Recent Publications – Anne Marie St-Jean Aubre

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Book Reviews
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

[Printemps 2010] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV97 – Ouvrages à souligner. By Anne Marie St-Jean Aubre Reviewed books: Marie Perrault, Anne Ramsden. La collection et le quotidien, Rimouski, Musée régional de Rimouski, 2007, 55 p., ill. n. et b. et coul. Texte […]

Lynne Cohen, Cover – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Book Reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Spring 2010] Lynne Cohen Cover Cherbourg-Octeville : Le point du jour, 2009, 142 pp., col. ills. Bilingual text Cover, recently put out by the French publisher Le Point du Jour, presents the work of Montreal-based photographer Lynne Cohen. Cohen began photographing domestic interiors and has been pursuing a documentary-style description of institutional interior spaces for […]

Matthieu Brouillard, La Résurrection / Les Enfants de la symétrie brisée – Jean-Pierre Vidal

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Matthieu Brouillard

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Sagamie, Alma Du 3 septembre au 9 octobre 2009

The Edge of Vision – John K. Grande

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Chris McCaw, Michael Flomen

[Spring 2010] The Rise of Abstraction in Photography Galerie Pangée, Montreal September 15 to October 12, 2009 Culled from a much larger exhibition at Aperture Gallery in New York, curated by Lyle Rexer, author of, among others, How to Look at Outsider Art,1 The Edge of Vision is a very special show that touches on […]

Gwenaël Bélanger, Casser l’image – Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Casser l’image Expression, centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe Du 7 novembre au 20 décembre 2009

Jason DodgeJason Dodge et Rob Kovitz, Into Black… et pas blanc comme neige – Virginie Doré Lemonde

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Jason Dodge, Rob Kovitz

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jason Dodge et Rob Kovitz Dazibao centre de photographies actuelles, Montréal Du 24 octobre au 28 novembre 2009

Michael Schreier, Storyteller / Waiting for Words – Judith Parker

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Michael Schreier

[Spring 2010] The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa September 10 to November 15, 2009. Disquieting, painterly, poetic – these words come to mind on viewing Michael Schreier’s series of large-scale grey/blue/purple semi-abstract photographs, Disappearing Numbers (2007-20-09), and Or-Sarua (2009), which portray empty bunker-like interiors quietly resonating with a sense of tragedy. Despite their softened forms and […]

Nicholas et Sheila Pye, Vanitas – Nathalie Guimond

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Nathalie Guimond | Artists: Nicholas Pye, Sheila Pye

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal Du 15 août au 12 septembre 2009