Are you looking for interviews or an artist’s portfolios? Would you like to reread an exhibition or book review? In this section, you can access the content of archived Ciel variable issues by exploring different types of articles published in the magazine.
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Penny Cousineau-Levine McGill-Queen’s University Press Montréal/Kingston 2003
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire, Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Dennis Adams
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maintenant. Images du temps présent sous la direction de Vincent Lavoie Le Mois de la photo à Montréal 2003, 320 p.
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Wojciech Prazmowski
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Photographies de la Communauté française de Belgique, de Pologne, du Québec Organisé par le centre VU, Québec 16 janvier au 15 février 2004
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: Elizabeth Menon | Artists: Jason Salavon
[Summer 2004] Jason Salavon employs computers and code to transform material appropriated from popular culture. His work ranges from digital video installations to Web-based interactive works and works on computers to create paintings that blur the line between manmade and machine aesthetic. His photo and video-based print works cultivate a dual aesthetic of painterly veils […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: George Bogardi | Artists: Louis Joncas
[Summer 2004] The Detritus series is an ongoing investigation of Joncas’s material existence, informed by still-life painting and vanitas. The series depicts the detritus of domestic life and everyday survival. It questions rituals and banal chores – such as cleaning, eating, grooming, and consuming – that leave behind an endless trail of detritus. The objects […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Ève Charron | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Gwenaël Bélanger’s series Chutes follows in the spirit of early-twentieth-century studies on transcription of movement. Each series uses a sequential modality to reconstitute the trajectory of everyday objects abandoned in […]
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 […]
[Summer 2004]
Portfolios : GWENAËL BÉLANGER, LOUIS JONCAS, JASON SALAVON.
Focus : La disparition, Maintenant. Images du temps présent, FAKING DEATH Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination.
Reviews : The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Alexandre Castonguay, Digitale, Éveil / Fabulation, Peter Greenaway, Thomas Kneubühler, Bettina Hoffmann, Spoilsport / Trouble-fête, David Rokeby.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Marie-Ève Charron, George Bogardi, Elizabeth Menon, Suzanne Paquet, Serge Allaire, Hélène Samson.
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Book Reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau (dir.) Fondation J. Armand Bombardier Valcourt, 2003, 97 p.
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Book Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala
[Spring 2004] Earle, Edward W., et al., eds. (New York: International Center for Photography and Göttigen: Steidl Publishers, 2003). ICP Exhibition dates: 12 September–30 November 2003. The International Center for Photography offered its first foray into the proliferation of international art festivals with its recent exhibition, Strangers. It is somewhat surprising that New York does […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Krystel Wallet, Sophie Mendelsohn | Artists: Sorel Cohen
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract During a stay in Paris, Sorel Cohen set up her camera in different psychoanalysts’ offices. The result was a series of images around the analyst’s couch, the body that we […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Nikki S. Lee
[Spring 2004] par Dayna McLeod In “Image #6” of Nikki Lee’s The Punk Project series, two punks are seated on the cement steps of an innocuous building. He has a closely cropped mohawk and wears camouflage pants with a leather jacket thrown across his lap. She wears ripped net stockings over striped tights, and a […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Massimo Guerrera | Artists: Massimo Guerrera
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Eduardo Ralickas | Artists: Yinka Shonibare
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Yinka Shonibare’s works can be characterized in terms of their powerful deconstruction of Western notions of identity. In this light, the artist’s embrace of the figure of the dandy is […]
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 […]
[Spring 2004]
Portfolios : YINKA SHONIBARE, MASSIMO GUERRERA, NIKKI S. LEE, SOREL COHEN.
Readings: Strangers – The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, Jocelyne Alloucherie – Glissements.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Eduardo Ralickas, Massimo Guerrera, Dayna McLeod, Sophie Mendelsohn, Krystel Wallet, Johanna Mizgala, Suzanne Paquet.
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Christopher Brayshaw | Artists: Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Thomas Struth
[Winter 2003] Vancouver Art Gallery 15 March–1 September 2003 Curated by Bruce Grenville and Melanie O’Brian “With the recent acquisition of more than sixty works by sixteen internationally acclaimed artists, the Vancouver Art Gallery now holds one of the most comprehensive contemporary photo-based art collections in North America.” So begins the curatorial apologia for the […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Nan Goldin
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal du 22 mai au 7 septembre 2003
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Karen Love | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay, Allan MacKay, Arnaud Maggs, Barbara Woodley, Charles Gagnon, Chris Lund, Chris Mikula, David Barbour, David Cation, Duncan Cameron, Evergon, Germaine Koh, Jeffrey Thomas, Jerry Grey, Justin Wonnacott, Ken Lum, Larissa Fassler, Lynn Ball, Max Dean, Michael Schreier, Michael Snow, Paul Couvrette, Rod MacIvor, Sylvain Cousineau, Tony Fouhse, Trevor Gould
[Winter 2003] The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa, organized for the Ottawa Art Gallery by Karen Love, gathers together over 200 Ottawa portraits by 78 image-makers, presented thematically in order to provoke a range of questions about how we understand the idea of a portrait. No longer simply an accurate depiction of physical characteristics or […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Scott Walden | Artists: Scott Walden
[Winter 2003] Scott Walden’s Unsettled was produced following a summer spent in Newfoundland photographing the remnants of abandoned coastal communities, casualties of government programs seeking to centralize the new province’s scattered population. The resulting book, Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities, gathers some forty images reproduced in duotone, along with many vintage photographs […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Guido Guidi, Marco Signorini, Paola Di Bello, Sergio Buffini, William Guerrieri
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The Linea de Confine movement in Emilie Romagne (northern Italy), both conceptual and empirical in its relationship with the territory, follows the lineage of Italian photography of the 1970s – […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Alban Kakulya, Yann Mingard | Artists: Alban Kakulya, Yann Mingard
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract From the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea stretches a strip of land more or less six hundred kilometres wide, inhabited by more than sixty million people belonging to seven […]
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, […]
[Winter 2003-2004]
Portfolios : YANN MINGRAD, ALBAN KAKULYA, LINEA DI CONFINE, SCOTT WALDEN, KAREN LOVE.
Reviews: Nan Goldin, The Big Picture: Recent Acquisition from the Collection of Alison & Alan Schwartz.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Yann Mingard, Alban Kakulya, Michèle Cohen Hadria, Scott Walden, Karen Love, Colette Tougas, Christopher Brayshaw.
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 | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Viviane Paradis | Artists: Doyon-Rivest
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU, Québec du 2 mai au 1er juin 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Geneviève Cadieux
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie René Blouin du 26 mars au 3 mai 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Edward Burtynsky
[Summer 2003] National Gallery of Canada 31 January–4 May 2003 The photograph – the colour photograph in particular – seems to have taken on gigantic proportions. Monumental images are a consequence of technological advances, but, more importantly, the shifting proportions are born from the work’s relationship to its place of reception: the gallery. Scale provokes […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Bruce Mau Design, Francis Summers
[Summer 2003] March 13–April 21, 2003 Anyone looking for photographs at the fifth international Foto Biënnale Rotterdam (FBR), titled Experience, would have left the two main exhibition sites in a hurry. Photo aficionados would have had better luck at the many participating galleries and museums throughout the city that opted for more traditional exhibitions. Few […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Emmanuel Hermange | Artists: Stéphane Couturier
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Stéphane Couturier’s Villes génériques series is a continuation of the photographic work on urban sites under construction that he has been producing for a number of years. This archaeology of […]