Evergon, Evergon, Margaret and I – Alain Laframboise, Le miroir d’Evergon

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Alain Laframboise | Artists: Evergon

[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The tradition of representing young women to emphasize the ephemeral nature of beauty is very old, as is that of showing older, physically worn women to encourage reflection on time’s […]

Ciel variable 58 – NUDES AND PORTRAITS

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS

[Summer 2002]

Portfolios : EVERGON, MARISA PORTOLESE, OLIVER CHRISTINAT.
Reviews : No Man’s Land: The Photographs of Lynne Cohen, Emmanuelle Léonard.
Readings: Martha Langford, Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums, Dominique Baqué, Mauvais genre(s), Livres reçus.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Alain Laframboise, Dayna McLeod, Lyne Crevier, Johanna Mizgala, Anite de Carvalho, Cheryl Simon, Jacques Doyon.

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE

[Spring 2002]

Portfolios : IVAN BINET, MANUEL PINA, ISABELLE HAYEUR.
Reviews : Herbert List ou « la mise en présence de l’absence – Marc Audette, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Corps de lumière / Bodies of Light, Vincent Lavoie – L’instant-monument.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Sonia Pelletier, Petra Watson, Suzanne Paquet, Adriana Kolar, Maria Zimmermann Brendel, Sylvain Campeau, Guy Bellavance.

Poses and Gazes

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Summer 2002] by Jacques Doyon Evergon, Marisa Portolese, and Olivier Christinat offer three very different ways of presenting the female body. Juxtaposed as they are here, they both encounter and confront beauty and age, attraction and maintaining distance, self-affirmation and abandonment in the other’s gaze. Nude or in intimate garb, all of these women are […]

Vincent Lavoie, L’instant-monument. Du fait divers à l’humanitaire – Guy Bellavance

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews
Authors: Guy Bellavance

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dazibao, 2001

Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Corps de lumière / Bodies of Light – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Axe Néo-7 art contemporain, Hull, 2002 89 p. (41 ill. n. et b.)

Marc Audette, Écran – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Marc Audette

[Spring 2002] Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal 12 Jan.–16 Feb. 2002 Marc Audette’s video and photography installation Écran is a unique juncture of various incompossibilities: the electronic media sphere of the video, digitally generated compositions, mechanically produced photographs, and the artist’s hands that were involved in the print development process. All vie for the viewer’s […]

Herbert List ou « la mise en présence de l’absence » – Adriana Kolar

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Adriana Kolar | Artists: Herbert List

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal 23 janvier au 28 avril 2002 Abstract The retrospective exhibition Herbert List – Flâneur romantique raises questions that come less from the photographs than from the […]

Isabelle Hayeur, Paysages incertains – Suzanne Paquet, Quelques fêlures

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Isabelle Hayeur’s work points as much to the idea of “realism” in photography as to that of authenticity of the landscape(s). These are linked issues, since the landscape is probably […]

Manuel Piña, On Monuments – Petra Watson, The Photographs of Manuel Piña

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Petra Watson | Artists: Manuel Piña

[Spring 2002] Unstable identities emerge in Manuel Piña’s mapping of place and historical past: memory assumes the form of the landscape itself. On Monuments comments on the rewriting of history, ideologies, and the obliteration of the past. Piña photographed sites where monuments were taken down during the 1959 Revolution. He presents these sites as discrete […]

Ivan Binet, Répertoire d’horizons – Sonia Pelletier, Nulle part chez nous

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Sonia Pelletier | Artists: Ivan Binet

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Ivan Binet’s images are impossible panoramic views that retrace the wanderings of the photographer-walker in different regions of Quebec. First sketched out during the shooting, these panoramas truly take form […]

A Constructed Landscape

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Winter 2001-2002] by Jacques Doyon In spite of the diversity of their modalities and subjects, the works brought together here are notable for their common interest in the sutures and marks in the landscape, the zones where significant transformations and their underlying issues are revealed surreptitiously or, on the contrary, concealed. These fault lines, or […]

Javier Vallhonrat, Obras, 1995-2001 – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Javier Vallhonrat

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Édition Cultural Rioja, La Rioja, 2001 110 p. (46 ill. coul., 19 ill. n. et bl.)

No man’s land, Les photographies de Lynne Cohen – Catherine Pomparat

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Book Reviews
Authors: Catherine Pomparat | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Texte de Ann Thomas, entretien avec Lynne Cohen Éditions Thames & Hudson, Paris, 2001, 160 p. (120 photos)

Bill Vazan, Ombres cosmologiques – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Bill Vazan

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec Du 2 septembre 2001 au 6 janvier 2002

Le pouvoir de l’image, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2001 – Guy Bellavance

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Guy Bellavance | Artists: Alain Declercq, Alfredo Jaar, Annika Larsson, Jane Wilson, Ken Lum, Louise Wilson, Natacha Lesueur

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ramona Ramlochand, Once Upon a Time . . . Ever After, a digital photographic panorama, 2001 – Ramona Ramlochand, Fragmentation

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Portfolios
Authors: Ramona Ramlochand | Artists: Ramona Ramlochand

[Winter 2001-2002] Under the digital disney sky, the debris of contemporary life consolidates, piled together into a postcard from the edge. It is all sweetness and anxiety. The natural and unnatural, the real and the imagined, becoming one watery vista. By the falls I sat down and wept. This is my theme park. An MRI. […]

Veli Granö, Cosmologies tangibles – Veli Granö, Le collectionneur de collectionneurs « Des vies transformées en collection de photos »

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Portfolios
Authors: Veli Granö | Artists: Veli Granö

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Today’s collector is of a new kind: a historian, a restorer of meaning. This figure, the expert collector, shows us where our past is hidden and how we can rediscover […]

Carl Zimmerman, Landmarks – Robin Metcalfe, The Aesthetics of Power

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Portfolios
Authors: Robin Metcalfe | Artists: Carl Zimmerman

[Winter 2001-2002] Zimmerman attributes to his photographs “an essentially utopian aesthetic with ambivalent understandings.” Humour, nostalgia, and critical deconstruction coexist in his work, as they often do in our responses to totalitarian aesthetics. “Fascinating fascism” shares its allure with the less radically discredited, but equally utopian, architectures of socialism and New Deal social democracy. by […]

Ciel variable 56 – MAKING WORLDS

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS

[Winter 2001-2002]

Portfolios : KARL ZIMMERMAN, VELI GRANÖ, RAMONA RAMLOCHAND.
Reviews : Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2001, Bill Vazan – Ombres cosmologiques, No man’s land : Les photographies de Lynne Cohen, Javier Vallhonrat – Obras.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Robin Metcalfe, Veli Granö, Ramona Ramlochand, Catherine Pomparat, Guy Bellavance, Suzanne Paquet, Sylvain Campeau.

On a Global Scale

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Winter 2001-2002] by Jacques Doyon The works in this issue will seem, at first glance, diametrically opposed to each other. They involve very different subjects, from monumental architecture (Carl Zimmerman) to the world of collectors (Veli Granõ) to the ruins and waste of consumer society (Ramona Ramlochand). And their visual means – their modes of […]

Joan Fontcuberta, Volte-face. À l’envers de la science, les leçons de l’histoire – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Le Cairn, Centre d’art, et les Éditions Images en manœuvres Digne et Marseille, 2000, 117 p.

Vid Ingelevics, Project Photographs 1992-2001 – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Vid Ingelevics

[Fall 2001] The Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto June 14–July 28, 2001 This small but deftly selected sampling of Vid Ingelevics’s work of the past decade left the viewer feeling that the veteran Toronto-based photographer and curator could now be well served by a full-scale retrospective exhibition. Yet, given the way the photographs shown here seemed […]

Alain Paiement, Refaire surface – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Clark Du 10 mai au 17 juin 2001

Shirin Neshat Film, Video and Photo Works – Christine Ross, Occidentaliser le spectateur : Shirin Neshat, la différence de la différence

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Portfolios
Authors: Christine Ross | Artists: Shirin Neshat

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Imbued by the question of identity and addressing mainly Western viewers, Shirin Neshat’s production constantly negotiates the variety of perspectives (masculine, feminine, feminist, Middle Eastern, Western, Asian) that come together […]

Sophie Calle, L’erouv de Jérusalem

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Portfolios
Authors: Sophie Calle | Artists: Sophie Calle

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary According to Jewish law, complete rest is obligatory during Shabbat. The ban on working includes carrying any objects (keys, a book, a bag) outside the home. However, according to the […]

Jin-Me Yoon, Touring Home From Away – Shauna McCabe, Fissures

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Portfolios
Authors: Shauna McCabe | Artists: Jin-Me Yoon

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary A product of Yoon’s continuing engagement with landscapes characterized by “condensed” meanings and connotations, this project places representations of the tourist destination of Prince Edward Island and its associations of […]

Frontières – Robert Lévesque

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Essays
Authors: Robert Lévesque | Artists: Geoffrey James

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Lévesque quotes a poem by Lamartine to show that, from century to century, idealism collides with the notion of borders, the historical factor in wars and deaths. His text, inhabited […]

The Shattering Image

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2001] by Jacques Doyon The terrorist attack of September 11 took the impact of the media image to new heights, with the inclusion in its scenario of the moment when various cameras enabled the entire world to witness the event live and left us for hours in fear of what might come next. For […]

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES

[Fall 2001]

Portfolios : JIN-ME YOON, SOPHIE CALLE, SHIRIN NESHAT.
Focus : Frontières.
Reviews : Refaire surface, Project Photographs 1992-2001, Joan Fontcuberta – Volte-face. À l’envers de la science, les leçons de l’histoire.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Robert Lévesque, Shauna McCabe, Sophie Calle, Christine Ross, Shirin Neshat, Mona Hakim, Gary Michael Dault, Sylvain Campeau.