Marisa Portolese, Belle de jour III: Dialogues with Notman’s Portraits of Women – James D. Campbell, More than Meets Her Eye: A Dimensional Portraiture

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Marisa Portolese

March 5, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — Montreal-based fine-art photographer Marisa Portolese has garnered well-deserved acclaim for the clarity and lush chromatic and emotional dimensionality of her images. The third instalment of her photographic series of portraits of women and girls titled Belle de jour marks something…

Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s–1980s
 – Jill Glessing. Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin and a Few Others . . .

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Portfolios
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Garry Winogrand

March 10, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — The title that brings together the wild and woolly works in Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s–1980s1 is worthy of consideration. The word “outside” depends on its semiotic partner in crime – “inside.” . . .

Yoanis Menge, HAKAPIK – Mona Hakim, Countering the Negative Image

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Yoanis Menge

March 12, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — HAKAPIK did not go unnoticed during its presentation at Occurrence. The subject was an attention-grabber: a report on the seal hunt by Yoanis Menge, a photographer from Îles de la Madeleine who totally immersed himself in the lives of groups of hunters off the coast of the Canadian North…

From Another Angle

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Marisa Portolese, Yoanis Menge

[Fall 2016] With great sensitivity and remarkable image quality, the works brought together in this section offer a renewed gaze at discredited realities and experiences. They do this by showing us people in their living environments. And yet, it is not individuals that these works offer as much as a certain order of representation, certain […]

Another look at things

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Marisa Portolese, Yoanis Menge

[Fall 2016] The works in this issue’s thematic section are anchored in realities diametrically opposed to each other – the seal hunt, social marginality, and representation of women – and are from different times. These works nevertheless come together in their challenging of prejudices and dominant thought systems. In fact, each proposes to portray people […]

Ciel variable 104 – FROM ANOTHER ANGLE

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE

  [Fall 2016] With great sensitivity and remarkable image quality, the works brought together in this section offer a renewed gaze at discredited realities and experiences. They do this by showing us people in their living environments. And yet, it is not individuals that these works offer as much as a certain order of representation, […]

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…

Kate Hutchinson, The Park – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Kate Hutchinson

November 6, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Sometime in the early twenty-third century, a sealed copper box is found interred at the foot of the excavated cross on top of Montreal’s estimable Mount Royal. Once opened, archaeologists and sundry forensic experts find a fulsome sheaf of what seem to be vernacular images…

Bertrand Carrière, Le capteur – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

November 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Daido Moriyama – Michèle Cohen Hadria 


Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Daido Moriyama

November 13, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Catherine Bodmer – Isadora Chicoine-Marinier

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Isadora Chicoine-Marinier | Artists: Catherine Bodmer

November 18, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Petra Mala Miller – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Petra Mala Miller

November 20, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Walking into a room full of strangers can be a disconcerting experience, exposing us to questions about belonging and difference. In contrast to such an expectation, Petra Mala Miller’s exhibition Portraits in Light offers a welcoming embrace, perhaps one that recognizes our commonality as strangers.

Yann Pocreau – Claire Moeder

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Yann Pocreau

November 25, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Stan Douglas – Érika Wicky

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Wicky | Artists: Stan Douglas

December 3, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nadia Seboussi – Claudia Polledri

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Nadia Seboussi

December 3, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thomas Kneubühler – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

December 9, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Vox Populi 1985-1989, The origins of VOX, Ciel variable, and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal – Marcel Blouin

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Essays
Authors: Marcel Blouin

December 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — It was Lucie Bureau who thought up the organization’s name. She was working at Radio Centre-Ville, a multilingual community radio station broadcasting from St. Lawrence Boulevard in Montreal. The name came to mind because she was producing “vox populi” pieces about social and cultural issues…

Bamako, A Biennale that Took the Time to Witness – Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Coco Fusco, Em’kal Eyongakpa, George Mahashe, Georges Senga, Héla Ammar, J. D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, Lebohang Kganye, Lola Khalfa, Moussa Kalapo, Seydou Camara, Sihem Salhi, Uche Okpa-Iroha, Youssef Lahrichi

December 16, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — The biennale in Bamako, Mali, came to an end on December 31, 2015. This anniversary edition – the tenth – had been delayed by two years due to a major crisis that occurred in 2012. Even a few weeks before the opening, there was still a climate of uncertainty, though it was quickly swept away by the invigorating enthusiasm of the organizing committee.

Ishiuchi Miyako, Stills of the Wounded: A North American Emergence – Claude Baillargeon

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Essays
Authors: Claude Baillargeon | Artists: Ishiuchi Miyako

December 18, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — Active since 1975 as a fiercely independent photographer in her native Japan, Ishiuchi Miyako has at last achieved significant recognition on the North American art scene…

Isabelle Hayeur, Desert Shores (L’Amérique perdue) – Stephen Horne, Photographing In the Anthropocene

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Portfolios
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

January 6, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — Dead trees, a few dried-up pigeons, some rotting fish, and broken-up cottages: what is the world that these make up? From the perspective of Montreal documentary photographer Isabelle Hayeur, this is a landscape – that is, a space inhabited with suburbs and industrial plants…

Geneviève Chevalier, Mon boisé, phase II – John K. Grande, My Woodland, or the Developers’?

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Portfolios
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Geneviève Chevalier

January 8, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — So pervasive have the interventions become that they challenge the stereotype of nature as an ongoing and seemingly inexhaustible eternal backdrop to all that we do. Our era is all about the intertwining of the human built landscape and the natural world…

Jessica Auer, January – James D. Campbell, Bluer than Blue

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Jessica Auer

January 13, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — Who better than a seasoned photographer to explore the phenomenology of light? Jessica Auer’s recent series January, created during a 2015 residency in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, is a thematic work of great visual poetry…

Nature

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Portfolios
Artists: Geneviève Chevalier, Isabelle Hayeur, Jessica Auer

[Spring/Summer 2016] There are places where nature’s presence is more intensely felt, where the question of the city’s interrelations with its natural environment emerges more spontaneously. Certain circumstances are also conducive to raising such reflections – among them, sense of unfamiliarity experienced during a stay abroad, obvious deterioration in the equilibrium or beauty of a […]

This Nature that Is Our World

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Geneviève Chevalier, Isabelle Hayeur, Jessica Auer

[Spring/Summer 2016] There are places where nature’s presence is more intensely felt, where the question of the city’s interrelations with its natural environment emerges more spontaneously. Certain circumstances are also conducive to raising such reflections – among them, sense of unfamiliarity experienced during a stay abroad, obvious deterioration in the equilibrium or beauty of a […]

Ciel variable 103 – NATURE

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE

  [Spring-Summer 2016] There are places where nature’s presence is more intensely felt, where the question of the city’s interrelations with its natural environment emerges more spontaneously. Certain circumstances are also conducive to raising such reflections – among them, sense of unfamiliarity experienced during a stay abroad, obvious deterioration in the equilibrium or beauty of […]

Quentin Bajac, Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015. Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now
 – Zoë Tousignant

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Interviews
Authors: Quentin Bajac, Zoë Tousignant

August 21, 2019 [originally published in Winter 2016] — Quentin Bajac has been the chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, since 2013. In the fall of 2015, MoMA opened the exhibition Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 (November 7, 2015, to March 20, 2016) and published the third volume in the Photography at MoMA.

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Winter 2016] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. par Alexis Desgagnés Download this article (Free of Charge)

Recréer/Scripter, Anne Bénichou (dir.) – Franz Anton Cramer

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews
Authors: Anne Bénichou, Franz Anton Cramer

August 28, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Les paradoxes du détail, Érika Wicky – Daniel Fiset

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset, Erika Wicky

September 4, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Scott Conarroe, Canada By Rail and By Sea – Jon Davies

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jon Davies | Artists: Scott Conarroe

9 Septembre 2019 [originellement publié à l’hiver 2016] — Born in 1974 in Edmonton, Scott Conarroe is best known for his continent-spanning By Rail (2007–09) and By Sea (2009–11). In these photographic series, Conarroe employed a large-format camera and long exposures to consider the U.S. and Canadian landscape, and the myriad transformations that it has undergone, via its expansive railways and coastlines.

Alain Laframboise, Le sens du quotidien – Gabrielle Desgagné-Duclos

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gabrielle Desgagné-Duclos | Artists: Alain Laframboise

September 11, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nicole Jolicoeur, Toucher sur image (vibrato) – Sheena Gourlay

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sheena Ellison | Artists: Nicole Jolicoeur

September 16, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Yto Barrada, Beaux Gestes – Blake Fitzpatrick

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Blake Fitzpatrick | Artists: Yto Barrada

September 18, 2019 [originellement publié à l’hiver 2016] — The rupturing effects of global change – as epitomized recently by news stories about migrants in over-crowded boats, with bodies on deck, in the hull, and in the sea – come to roost at the local level, where the risks of globalization are most exposed but also potentially transformed through acts of resistance…

Campeau, Carrière, Clément: Accumulations – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Michel Campeau, Serge Clément

September 24, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Pièces de résistance – Colette Tougas

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Yinka Shonibare

September 25, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Christopher Williams – Fabien Pinaroli

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Fabien Pinaroli | Artists: Christopher Williams

September 30, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

12e édition de la Biennale de La Havane – Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis

October 2, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Images à charge : la construction de la preuve par l’image – Érika Wicky

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Wicky

October 7, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

PHotoEspaña 2015, Madrid.
 Open Veins – Views from Latin America – Jill Glessing

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Essays
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Ana Casas Broda, Janek Zamoyski, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Luis Arturo Aguirre, Luis González Palma, Martín Chambi, Ray Govea, Rodrigo Moya, Tina Modotti

October 9, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2015, What Has Become of Photography in the Era of Mobile Technologies and Social Networks?
 – Élène Tremblay

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Essays
Authors: Élène Tremblay

October 15, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — Curator Joan Fontcuberta’s idea of bringing together artists who explore the post-photographic condition for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal is especially pertinent in an era in which digital technology has challenged the status of the photographic image…

Lagos, Nigeria: Capital of Photography – Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis

October 16, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — Lagos – Eko in the Yoruba language – is a typical megalopolis. With its some twenty million inhabitants, it is the economic and cultural heart and soul of Nigeria, which is the birthplace of Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prize for literature) and Fela Kuti (the father of Afrobeat) and the home of Nollywood (the third-largest movie industry in the world)….

Alejandro Cartagena, Carpoolers – Isa Tousignant, From the Northern to the Southern Suburbs

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Portfolios
Authors: Isa Tousignant | Artists: Alejandro Cartagena

October 21, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — In the storybook that is Alejandro Cartagena’s oeuvre, Carpoolers is the chapter that comes between Suburbia Mexicana and What We Fight For. The artist, who works and lives in Monterrey, Mexico, has been researching and imaging urban sprawl and its impact for the last decade in photographs that mix a luscious kind of composed beauty with deep human interest…

Julian Germain, The Future is Ours, Classroom Portraits – Johanna Mizgala, Between Portraiture and the Documentary

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Portfolios
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Julian Germain

October 23, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — It started off in the northeast U.K., where I am based. I had received funding at the time to photograph in six particular schools. I realized pretty soon that it would be interesting to expand to other schools in different parts of the country, in that it was a way to make a portrait of the population…

Raymonde April, Near You No Cold – Charles Guilbert, To Photograph to Understand

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Portfolios
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Raymonde April

October 28, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — For a Westerner travelling, it’s quite easy to take striking pictures of India. But what is being portrayed in these images is simply culture shock. One stays at a distance. Since I was in Mumbai to work, what was urgent for me was not so much to take pictures as to understand…

Far Away, So Close

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Alejandro Cartagena, Julian Germain, Raymonde April

[Winter 2016]   Globalization is making us more aware of the realities of the entire planet through news, visits, and business travel. In addition, urbanization and consumer markets are tending to bring cultures and lifestyles ever closer to each other. Even so, and fortunately, diversity and differences remain. What is more, the most radical forms […]

Far Away, So Close…

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Alejandro Cartagena, Julian Germain, Raymonde April

[Winter 2016]   What can hold things together and forge intersections in universes as different as the ones gathered in these pages, if it is not that they address a few aspects of our common condition that is increasingly shaped by the current path of globalization? The opening of borders in the contemporary era, inaugurated […]

Ciel variable 102 – FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE

[Winter 2016] Globalization is making us more aware of the realities of the entire planet through news, visits, and business travel. In addition, urbanization and consumer markets are tending to bring cultures and lifestyles ever closer to each other. Even so, and fortunately, diversity and differences remain. What is more, the most radical forms of […]

Joan Fontcuberta, Discursive Issues of Post-Photography – Christine Palmiéri

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Interviews
Authors: Christine Palmiéri, Joan Fontcuberta | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

June 3, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Automne 2015] — Following up on a first interview with Catalan artist Joan Fontcuberta published in this magazine in 2013 (CV 93), Ciel variable is marking the fourteenth edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, of which Fontcuberta is the curator, by reprinting an interview by Christine Palmiéri…

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Fall 2015] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV101 – Ouvrages à souligner. Thierry Gervais (avec la collaboration de Gaëlle Morel), La fabrique de l’information visuelle. Photographies et magazines d’actualité, Paris, Éditions Textuel, 2015, 240 p., ill., fr. Hilde Van Gelder, ed., Allan Sekula: […]

Guillaume Lafleur, Pratiques minoritaires Fragments d’une histoire méconnue du cinéma québécois (1937-1973) – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

June 5, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Joan Fontcuberta, Pandora’s Camera: Photography after Photography – Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Book Reviews
Authors: Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

June 10, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Andrew Wright, Untitled Photographic Pictures – Adam Barbu

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Adam Barbu | Artists: Andrew Wright

June 12, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — In recent years, Ottawa-based artist Andrew Wright has produced numerous bodies of work that propose new readings on the ontology of the image. In particular, Wright’s exhibition at Patrick Mikhail’s new Montreal gallery space, titled Untitled Photographic Pictures, presents a series of large-scale photographic works and two mixed-media sculptural works…

Manon Labrecque, L’origine d’un mouvement – Judith Parker

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Manon Labrecque

June 18, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — The artist’s body as a site for the investigation of the internal dualities of the self is the subject of a compelling exhibition of video projections, kinetic sculptures, and drawings by Montreal artist Manon Labrecque…

Alain Lefort, PEQUOD (‘pi:’kwad) – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Alain Lefort

June 20, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — Lefort fittingly cribs his title from American author Herman Melville’s 1851 magnum opus Moby Dick: the Pequod is a fictitious nineteenth-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the novel as an instrument of revenge…

Mark Lewis, Above and Below – Michèle Cohen Hadria

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Mark Lewis

June 25, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chih-Chien Wang, The Act of Forgetting – Claire Moeder

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

June 27, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sophie Calle, L’austérité du regard – Vincent Brault

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Brault | Artists: Sophie Calle

July 2, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sophie Calle, Pour la première et la dernière fois – Alain Laframboise & Vincent Brault

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Alain Laframboise | Artists: Sophie Calle

July 2, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Raymonde April, Near You No Cold – Anne-Marie Proulx

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anne-Marie Proulx | Artists: Raymonde April

July 3, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Benoit Aquin, Mégantic photographié – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Benoit Aquin

July 29, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Douala under an Open Sky – Erika Nimis

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Alessandro Aceri, Boris Nzebo, Christian Hanussek, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Ginette Daleu, Hervé Yamguen, Hervé Youmbi, Nicolas Eyidi, Patrick Wokmeni

July 31, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — Douala. Late January 2015. I take my first steps on the streets of this port city, the economic capital of Cameroon. Douala is a vibrant city that constantly eludes your grasp. First steps and already some reference points. We cannot speak of the contemporary scene in Douala without speaking of the art centres that form its identity.

Do the Clothes Make the Man? – Bénédicte Ramade

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Essays
Authors: Bénédicte Ramade | Artists: Dana Claxton, Dayna Danger, Lori Blondeau, Meryl McMaster, Rosalie Favell, Shelley Niro, Skawennati, Terrance Houle

Dress codes categorize their users, signal their belonging to a social group: clothes worn in subcultures, from mods to punks,1 for example, act as symbols and incentives to resist normalcy and bourgeois society – considered, of course, to be coercive. In Indigenous cultures, artists have also appropriated clothes to resist the confinement of their representation […]

Beam me up, Scotty! The Photographs Teleported from Google Street View – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Doug Rickard, Jon Rafman, Michael Wolf, Mishka Henner

August 5, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — It has been a few years now since artists discovered that they could put Google Street View to artistic and critical use. The best-known case is no doubt Jon Rafman, who is pursuing – inexorably, I might be tempted to say – his 9-eyes project, for which he shamelessly pillages the Internet image bank that contains pictures taken by directional cameras affixed to Google Street View (GSV) cars…

Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Études préparatoires (dessins d’explosions) – Charles Guilbert, Logic of Excess

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Portfolios
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf

August 7, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — Since 2012, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf has been working on a series of artworks titled Études préparatoires (dessins d’explo­sions), which he has presented in various venues and contexts. As he has often done in the past, Phaneuf revives found objects by inscribing them in a system of his own making.

Moyra Davey, Copperheads – Isa Tousignant, Heads of State of the Art of Money

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Portfolios
Authors: Isa Tousignant | Artists: Moyra Davey

August 12, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — Moyra Davey’s Copperheads series has had a few existences. It was born in 1990, soon after the Canadian-born artist moved to New York, where she still resides. In those early days it was a project that lived a practically private life…

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin. Scarti – Paul Paper, Reason for photography in Dustbin

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Portfolios
Authors: Paul Paper | Artists: Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin

August 15, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — Scarti is a recent photographic series, and a book of the same title, by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. The project revives the photographers’ 2003 series Ghetto. It is, however, by no means a straight reprint. The title – Italian for “scraps” – gives away an important aspect of this reuse…

Strates | Strata

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Portfolios
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Adam Broomberg, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Moyra Davey, Oliver Chanarin

In geology, the concept of stratification refers to a process during which sediments accumulate in layers, which eventually form more or less heterogeneous sedimentary ensembles but nevertheless remain distinct units of meaning. We often find such ensembles on the edges of paths or roads; they offer the possibility of a simultaneous reading of many strata […]

Fantasizing

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

Is fantasizing always diametrically opposed to the truth? Or does it tend to become an inherent component of reality – to blend with it, be superimposed on it – to the point that the two shape each other? The recent Bugingo affair – involving a Montreal journalist who apparently invented a series of facts and […]

Ciel variable 101 – STRATA

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA

[Fall 2015] STRATA features works by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Moyra Davey, and Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf. The comprehension of these bodies of work assumes a peeling away of the various strata of signs that form them. ÉDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXPOSITIONS LECTURES PAROLES Purchase this issue

Clément Chéroux : The New Photography Gallery at the Pompidou Centre – Rémi Coignet

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Interviews
Authors: Clément Chéroux, Rémi Coignet | Artists: Ugo Mulas

April 1, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — In the fall of 2014, the Pompidou Centre inaugurated a new exhibition space devoted to photography. Beyond the strictly local consequences involved, such a decision by a world-class museum may be understood as unequivocal recognition of the legitimacy now granted to this medium within the contemporary art system and canonical institutions…

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Spring-Summer 2015] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV100 – Ouvrages à souligner. Antonio Dominguez Leiva, YouTube théorie. Un vertige néobaroque, Montréal, Les Éditions de ta mère, 2014, 112 p., fr. Ola Lanko, Brigiet van den Berg, Nikki Brörmann et al., Ed It: The […]

The Photobook : A History Volume III – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

April 3, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

La manipulation des images dans l’art contemporain – Anne Bénichou

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Book Reviews
Authors: Anne Bénichou

April 8, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Akram Zaatari, All Is Well – Mirna Boyadjian

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mirna Boyadjian | Artists: Akram Zaatari

April 10, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Suzy Lake, Introducing Suzy Lake – Sam Cotter

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sam Cotter | Artists: Suzy Lake

April 16, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — For over forty years, Suzy Lake has been engaging with the world of representation surrounding her, creating new images to open dialogues and complicate underlying ideologies. Introducing Suzy Lake, the first major museum retrospective of her work, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, looks to Lake’s performative engagement with the camera from the late 1960s to the present…

5e édition des Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie – Serge Allaire

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire | Artists: Rozenn Quéré, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh

April 18, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Roman Vishniac, De Berlin à New York, 1920-1975 – Ada Ackerman

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ada Ackerman | Artists: Roman Vishniac

April 23, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Kathleen Ritter, Camoufleurs – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Kathleen Ritter

April 24, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — This captivating exhibition of work by Kathleen Ritter is aptly and enticingly titled Camoufleurs. A camoufleur was a person – usually an artist, usually a woman – who designed and installed military camouflage in one of the world wars of the last century. The term relates to all First and Second World War specialists in the art of camouflage…

James Benning – Guillaume Lafleur

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Guillaume Lafleur | Artists: James Benning

April 29, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Pierre Bourgault, Tremblement du temps : 83 40 N 30 41 O / 47 12 N 70 16 O – Caroline Gagné

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Caroline Gagné | Artists: Pierre Bourgault

May 1, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Richard Mosse, The Enclave – Zoë Tousignant

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Richard Mosse

May 6, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — One would have to be a seasoned cynic to be indifferent to Richard Mosse’s film installation The Enclave (2012–13). Visually, it is an impressionistic, six-screened montage of beautifully lurid hues of hot pink; politically, it reveals a heretofore unseen side of the conflict that has ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998; and theoretically, it raises fundamental questions regarding the meaning and function of images of war…

Michael Snow’s Bent: Image distortion in 1956 – Robert Fones

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Essays
Authors: Robert Fones | Artists: Michael Snow

May 8, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — As a child, I learned from a book on cartooning that my mother bought me that a cartoon character’s body could be distorted or exaggerated to express astonishment or alarm. I vividly recall an illustration in the book of a character with eyes popped out, jaw dropped to the navel, and the whole body stretched vertically…

“Photo Season” at the MNBAQ: What Photography for the Museum? – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Bryan Adams, Geneviève Cadieux, Lida Moser

May 13, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — “The nineteenth-century dispute over the relative artistic merits of painting and photography seems misguided and confused today”. Does Walter Benjamin’s statement, dating from the 1930s, put a final stop to the debate over whether photography naturally belongs in museums?

BNLMTL 2014 : L’avenir (looking forward) – Louis Cummins, Geopolitics and Institutional Strategies

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Essays
Authors: Louis Cummins | Artists: Abbas Akhavan, Emmanuelle Léonard, Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Hito Steyerl, Jillian Mayer, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Lawrence Weiner, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ursula Biemann

May 15, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — By including artists such as Lawrence Weiner and Krzysztof Wodiczko, two pioneers of conceptual art who, in the late 1960s, combined art and social activism, the curators of the Biennale de Montréal 2014 clearly staked out their position…

Althea Thauberger, Marat, Sade, Bohnice / Geneviève Chevalier, The Revolution of Marat, Sade, Bohnice

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Portfolios
Authors: Geneviève Chevalier | Artists: Althea Thauberger

May 21, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — From the opening credits, the title of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade as Performed by the Prague-based Experimental Theatre Company Akanda for the Patients and Staff of the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital announces the work’s device….

Chuck Samuels, The Photographer – Chuck Samuels, The Ventriloquist’s Dummy: Another interview

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Portfolios
Authors: Chuck Samuels | Artists: Chuck Samuels

May 22, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — Chuck Samuels: In Before the Camera, you presented yourself in drag to look at the female nude in the history of photography; in Psychoanalysis, you appeared as both the Norman Bates and the Marion Crane characters; in Before Photography, you assumed the roles of photographers in film stills from a specific era…

Adad Hannah & Denys Arcand, Les Bourgeois de Vancouver – Sébastien Hudon, The People of Bronze

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Portfolios
Authors: Sébastien Hudon | Artists: Adad Hannah, Denys Arcand

May 28, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — As far back as 2002, multidisciplinary artist Adad Hannah was citing a work by French sculptor Auguste Rodin in his own work. It has been thirteen years since he produced Stills, composed of video captures of Rodin’s first bronze, The Age of Bronze (1877). At the time, no one would have guessed that this was the first manifestation of Hannah’s unique and constant fascination with the Parisian master…

Replay

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Adad Hannah, Althea Thauberger, Chuck Samuels, Denys Arcand

Appropriating visual artworks, as one interprets the works in a repertoire: here, a sculpture by Rodin, self-portraits of famous photographers, and a play whose writing is attributed, as part of the fiction, to an author of another era. Judging that, among all the works that exist, these ones still resonate sufficiently in the eyes and […]

CV100! . . . And what comes next?

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

Publishing a contemporary art magazine specializing in photography in 2015 is more relevant than ever. Simply think of all the magazines, galleries, exhibition centres, and events (Mois de la photo and photographic encounters of all kinds) that exist and are being created all over the world around the photographic image. Of course, the time has […]

Ciel variable 100 – REPLAY

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY

[Spring-Summer 2015] Appropriating visual artworks, as one interprets the works in a repertoire. Judging that, among all the works that exist, these ones still resonate sufficiently in the eyes and ears of contemporary spectators to justify the reignition of their interrogatory or denunciatory spark. What do these works say? ÉDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXPOSITIONS LECTURES PAROLES […]

Vincent Lafrance ART SYSTÈME. Magazine d’art et d’idées – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Interviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon, Vincent Lafrance

November 18, 2015 [originally published Winter 2015] — Vincent Lafrance’s work is permeated with the idea of the simulacrum – perception and its faults. Playing with photographic virtuosity and with randomness, he composes visual illusions with traditional photographic means. His body of videographic work uses language as a confusing effect; he produces fictions that fluidly meander between …

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Winter 2015] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV99 – Ouvrages à souligner. Donigan Cumming, The Stage, New York, Errata Editions, 2014, 132 pp., Eng. Catherine Tremblay et Véronique Béland, Elles collectionnent des mondes, Montréal, Les Éditions du renard, 2014, 116 p., fr. ; […]

Thierry Gervais (ed.), Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854–2008 – Corina Ilea

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Book Reviews
Authors: Corina Ilea

January 28, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — Ryerson Image Centre presented the exhibition Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854-2008, curated by Thierry Gervais, and marking the centennial of the First World War. The exhibition was accompanied by a publication that underscores the intricate connection between war and photography, as well as the not-so-innocent mechanisms of representation activated in recording, transmission, and shaping of conflicts in the visual field…

Siegfried Kracauer, Sur le seuil du temps, Essais sur la photographie – Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Book Reviews
Authors: Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

January 30, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Gwenaël Bélanger, Dépeindre – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger

February 4, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Harun Farocki, Serious Games: I–IV (2009–10) – Elisa Julia Gilmour

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Elisa Julia Gilmour | Artists: Harun Farocki

February 6, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — On September 17, 2014, the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), an institution that collects, researches, and exhibits historical and contemporary lens-based imagery, opened three new exhibitions on war imagery: how it is produced, constructed, distributed, and received…

S’il y a lieu je pars avec vous – Ada Ackerman

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ada Ackerman | Artists: Julien Magre

February 11, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala

February 13, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography contains over four hundred images, ranging from private portraits to almost-life-size enlargements of battlefields and scenes from the front. The exhibition addresses the multiple means by which photographs circulated during the war years, while at the same time underscoring the profound sense of loss and devastation…

Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Transatlantique – Charles Guilbert

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Félix Dufour-Laperrière

February 18, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

David Goldblatt, Structures of Dominion and Democracy – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: David Goldblatt

February 20, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — David Goldblatt has been photographing in South Africa for many decades. The acuity with which he has recorded the depths of violence and its specific character both during and after the era of apartheid rests on his observation of violence naturalized…

Ryoji Ikeda, superposition – Louis Cummins

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Louis Cummins | Artists: Ryoji Ikeda

February 25, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Kelly Lycan, Underglow – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Kelly Lycan

February 27, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — The title of Kelly Lycan’s show, Underglow, incorporates her interest in consumer culture, photography, high art, and cultures of display. Lycan uses the connotations of luminous detailing in car culture, cosmetic techniques that add shimmering radiance, and, in general, the use of light to emphasize form to animate the role of light in photography…

PHotoEspaña 2014: Shining Light on Spanish Photography – Jill Glessing

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Essays
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Paco Gómez Martínez

March 4, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — “Mother and teacher mine, my sad and spacious Spain”: this is how the poet, Blas de Otero described his country’s vast geography and serial suffering under the double yoke of monarchy and religion, and then under fascism…

Forgotten Photography : The Case of Béla F. Egyedi – Zoë Tousignant

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Essays
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Béla Egyedi

March 6, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — Béla Ferenc Egyedi was born in 1913 in Esztergom, Hungary. He immigrated to Canada in 1951 and lived for many years in Montreal’s Milton-Park neighbourhood, at various addresses on Lorne Avenue and Durocher Street, near Milton Street. He was simultaneously a photographer, a printmaker, a poet, and a ceramicist…

Valérie Jouve, Five women from the country of the moon – Fabien Pinaroli

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Essays
Authors: Fabien Pinaroli | Artists: Valérie Jouve

March 11, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — For more than twenty years, in her encounters and the resulting portraits, Valérie Jouve has been navigating among reference points composed of historical markers such as architecture in peripheral zones, or the habituses of contemporary human beings…

Normand Rajotte, Le chantier – Caroline Loncol Daigneault, In the Eye of the Beaver

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Portfolios
Authors: Caroline Loncol Daignault | Artists: Normand Rajotte

March 13, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — Le chantier: the first image. Through marks and lines – green, taupe, orange – a wet woodlands glistens. In the foreground, three black tree trunks. The one in the centre is cut open at the base, showing freshly gnawed yellow flesh. It partially hides a pile of branches arranged in an outwardly spreading form – the key, the sun of the image…

Allison Tweedie, Cutting Sunsets – Gentiane La France, Domesticated Landscapes

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Portfolios
Authors: Gentiane La France | Artists: Allison Tweedie

March 18, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — The series Cutting Sunsets is composed of small-format collages portraying scenes of daily life around affluent dwellings on the American west coast. A few people, here and there, quietly tend to their land, do maintenance, contemplate, walk around, and converse…

Steve Veilleux, Projections – Sébastien Hudon, An Achievable Dystopia

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Portfolios
Authors: Sébastien Hudon | Artists: Steve Veilleux

March 20, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — One can easily imagine the scene, so banal that it is universal. On a moonless night, its highbeams blazing, a new car, with a new couple inside, rolls down a remote road, far from the bustle of the city. The passengers, the nuclear family of the post-atomic era, already see themselves there, deluded by the illusion of an extraordinary suburb – one of a thousand similar suburbs…

Stephen Gill, Pigeons – Iain Sinclair, Bridge Fishing

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Portfolios
Authors: Iain Sinclair | Artists: Stephen Gill

March 25, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — Our expeditions usually begin at first light. This time, Stephen explained, we would be better to hold off until the worst of the rush hour had burnt itself out. I sat on the church porch and waited, admiring a procession of those bright-red sculptural interventions held long enough at the traffic lights to catch the appreciative eye, the new Stagecoach buses with the NOT IN SERVICE destination windows…

Habitat

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Portfolios
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Allison Tweedie, Normand Rajotte, Stephen Gill, Steve Veilleux

So, here we are, humans and animals (the same thing, really), perforce engaged in the concrete and naked fact of existing. We are – the verb says it with the force of law – sunk into being like a foundation is sunk into the ground. For as long as the few hours, days, or decades […]

Environments

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

We are pleased to present in this issue the first thematic section put together by Alexis Desgagnés in his new position as associate editor of the magazine. The section, bearing on the notion of habitat, juxtaposes recent works by photographers Normand Rajotte and Stephen Gill, each of whom stands out for a field practice adapted […]

Ciel variable 99 – HABITAT

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT

[Winter 2015] The realm of the living includes as many habitats as ways of life. As fragments of the impossible inventory of all inhabited places, these four portfolios cross over into environments that may be real or fantasized, but are always constructed. EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXHIBITIONS READINGS VOICES Purchase this issue

MaryAnn Camilleri, The Magenta Foundation – Jill Glessing

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Interviews
Authors: Jill Glessing, MaryAnn Camilleri | Artists: Adam Makarenko, Alma Haser, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Simon Roberts

November 12, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — MaryAnn Camilleri is the executive director of the Magenta Foundation. After completing her BA in photographic arts at Ryerson University, Toronto­ born Camilleri moved to New York, where she worked at Magnum Photo for ten years. In 2003, she returned to Toronto and, with the goal of publishing high­-quality art books and promoting Canadian photographic artists, she started up Carte Blanche…

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Automne 2014] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV98 – Ouvrages à souligner. The Photobook: A History Volume III, ed. Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, New York: Phaidon Press, 2014, 304 pp. Clément Dirié et Michèle Thériault (dir.), Joana Hadjithomas + Khalil Joreige, Zurich, […]

Chantal Pontbriand, The Contemporary, the Common: Art in a Globalizing World – Michael Frederick Rattray

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews
Authors: Michael Frederick Rattray

November 14, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — The book is a collection of essays on contemporary art history written by Pontbriand between 2000 and 2011 (other than the new writing undertaken to contextualize and draw together the at times disparate essays). It is a personal reflection upon and an example of an early-twenty-first-century sensibility that we experience collectively…

Ariella Azoulay, Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography – Erika Wicky

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews
Authors: Erika Wicky

Novembre 19, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Vera Frenkel – Cheryl Simon

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews
Authors: Cheryl Simon

November 21, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — Vera Frenkel, a monograph published last year by German art book publisher Hatje Cantz, offers the most comprehensive study of this Canadian multidisciplinary artist’s work to date. Remarkable for its reach, the book includes twelve essays focused on nine projects completed over a forty-year span, …

Caroline Hayeur, Adoland – Nicolas Mavrikakis

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Nicolas Mavrikakis | Artists: Caroline Hayeur

Novembre 26, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bettina Hoffmann, Drain – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann

Novembre 28, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Louis Couturier et Jacky Georges Lafargue, Asbestos Storm – Line Dezainde

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Line Dezainde | Artists: Jacky Georges Lafargue, Louis Couturier

December 3, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.