Terrains vagues / Unspecified, Œuvres de Geoffrey James, Alain Lefort, Emmanuelle Léonard et Suzanne Paquet – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Lefort, Emmanuelle Léonard, Geoffrey James

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Textes de Lise Lamarche et Guy Mercier Éditions J’ai vu, collection L’opposite, Québec, 2000, 112 p. (107 ill. n. et bl.)

Vera Greenwood, L’Hôtel Soficalle – Anne Bénichou

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Anne Bénichou | Artists: Vera Greenwood

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa 5 février – 15 avril 2001

Isabelle Hayeur, Les Paysages incertains – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Verticale Du 18 avril au 27 mai 2001

Robin Collyer, The McCain Family Commission – Catherine Grout, Paysages

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Portfolios
Authors: Catherine Grout | Artists: Robin Collyer

[Spring 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 series of ten photographs made by Robin Collyer subtly responds to a private commission in memory of someone who has died. These views show various New Brunswick landscapes that […]

Michel Campeau, Arborescences – Robert Graham, Under a Campeau Blue Sky

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Graham | Artists: Michel Campeau

[Spring 2001] . . . a late-summer bounty of natural and unnatural growth, the cultivated and the uncontrollable. For while this garden has its real-world aspect and can be found on a map, it serves for Campeau as the foliage in a narrative tour of an interior landscape, described in muted speech and in surroundings […]

Scott McFarland, Gardens, Vancouver- Christopher Brayshaw, Garden Optics

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Portfolios
Authors: Christopher Brayshaw | Artists: Scott McFarland

[Spring 2001] Scott McFarland’s recent photographs depict private gardens located in an exclusive Vancouver neighbourhood. The photographs, which include portrait studies of garden owners and workers, unpopulated landscapes, and images of security systems, make the private gardens built and maintained for their owners’ pleasure the subject of public contemplation and discussion. by Christopher Brayshaw The […]

Hyperpaysages, À l’affût de territoires réticulaires et mentaux. – Luc Lévesque

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Essays
Authors: Luc Lévesque

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Although, by working to push the limits of the gaze, photography indirectly contributes to stimulating new paths for the garden, the elusive complexity of the garden reciprocally defies capture by […]

Garden-Landscapes

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Spring 2001] by Jacques Doyon The photographs of gardens and landscapes presented here are not about looking at plants, flowers, and trees for themselves, in the sense of botanical documentation. Rather, they attempt to highlight what rules over the arrangement of or investment in such places and what is at play in our reading of […]

Ciel variable 54 – GARDENS-LANDSCAPES

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES

[Spring 2001]

Portfolios : SCOTT MCFARLAND, MICHEL CAMPEAU, ROBIN COLLYER.
Focus : Hyperpaysages, À l’affût de territoires réticulaires et mentaux.
Reviews : Isabelle Hayeur – Les Paysages incertains, Vera Greenwood – L’Hôtel Soficalle, Terrains vagues / Unspecified – Œuvres de Geoffrey James, Alain Lefort, Emmanuelle Léonard et Suzanne Paquet.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Luc Lévesque, Christopher Brayshaw, Robert Graham, Sylvain Campeau, Anne Bénichou, Sylvain Campeau, Catherine Grout.

Fiction ou d’autres histoires de la photographie – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Winter 2000-2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions Dazibao, Collection les essais Montréal, 2000, 206 p. (français/anglais)

Alexa Wright, I – Dayna McLeod

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Alexa Wright

[Winter 2000-2001] par Dayna McLeod Articule, Montreal September 9 – October 8, 2000 Projecting the agency of the ego and the power of the image in an age obsessed with identity politics, performative fiction, and digital truth, Alexa Wright reveals disabled versions of herself in her solo exhibition at Articule, I. This series of eight […]

William Eakin, Open Studio: William Eakin – Susan Close

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Exhibition Reviews

[Winter 2000-2001] par Susan Close Open Studio: William Eakin St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg, June 4 – September 24, 2000 William Eakin Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg September 28, 2000 – January 7, 2001 Winnipeg artist William Eakin works on a vast scale, as both a collector of objects and a maker of photo­graphs. It comes as […]

Rosalie Favell, Longing and not Belonging – Ryan Rice & Barry Ace, Le désir privé d’appartenance

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Authors: Barry Ace, Ryan Rice | Artists: Rosalie Favell

[Winter 2000-2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Longing and Not Belonging is an exhibition of 41 digital-output works by photographer Rosalie Favell. Favell has chosen to explore her identity as a mixed-blood urban Cree through her family […]

Patrick Faigenbaum, Brême – Gregory Salzman, Realism with a Human Face

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Gregory Salzman | Artists: Patrick Faigenbaum

[Winter 2000-2001] This project marks the first time that Faigenbaum photographed subjects with which he felt no special personal identification or emotional connection. The nature of the assignment and his lack of familiarity with the place prompted him to adopt a novel way of working that was more informal and impromptu than in previous works. […]

Ève K.Tremblay, L’Éducation sentimentale – Lyne Crevier, Vivre en soi

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Authors: Lyne Crevier | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay

[Winter 2000-2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The photographer Ève K. Tremblay has created an allegorical work, reminiscent of “tales with a moral,” in which nymphets and mature women swarm busily to embellish life. The places chosen […]

La mémoire et le double – François Paré

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Essays
Authors: François Paré | Artists: Raymonde April

[Winter 2000-2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary This text, the product of parallel readings of Mercure, a novel by Amélie Nothomb, and L’avenir de la mémoire, an essay by Fernand Dumont, explores the tight links between identity, […]

Ciel variable 53 – IDENTITIES

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES

[Winter 2000-2001]

Portfolios : ÈVE K. TREMBLAY, PATRICK FAIBENBAUM, ROSALIE FAVELL
Focus : La mémoire et le double
Reviews : Open Studio: William Eakin, Alexa Wright – I, Fiction ou d’autres histoires de la photographie
Authors : Jacques Doyon, François Paré, Lyne Crevier, Gregory Salzman, Ryan Rice & Barry Ace, Susan Close, Dayna McLeod, Sylvain Campeau

Shifting and conflicting states

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Winter 2000-2001] by Jacques Doyon Identity is a precarious notion, constantly being redefined, at the intersection of many dimensions of belonging and identification. It is a self-definition, by and through the view of others. Identity is always a question of positionings and negotiations. The part of it that may seem to be inherent or original […]

Michel Lamothe, Même les cigales dormaient – Bernard Lamarche

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Book Reviews
Authors: Bernard Lamarche | Artists: Michel Lamothe

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Marian Penner Bancroft, By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Marian Penner Bancroft

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) Galerie de l’UQAM du 8 septembre au 7 octobre 2000

Mouvance et mutation – François Dion

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Greg Staats, Ramona Ramlochand

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, Ottawa du 19 mai au 17 septembre 2000

Store | Market : A Sadness without the Object – Howard Ursuliak

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Authors: Howard Ursuliak | Artists: Howard Ursuliak

[Fall 2000] For the past fifteen years, I have been interested in the material agency of both documentary photography and the visual display aesthetics of public advertising, and in how these two forms come together in configurations of urban space to mediate a dialectic of appearances between public and private realms of experience. by Howard […]

Rudd van Empel – Mariona Fernández, The Office

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Authors: Mariona Fernández | Artists: Ruud van Empel

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The Office, produced using digital photo-editing techniques, arises from the unreal. Ruud van Empel combines many of the avant-garde influences that have liberated photography from its obligation to the truth […]

Nicolas Baier – Emmanuel Galland, De la peinture par téléphone

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS, Complete Archives
Authors: Emmanuel Galland | Artists: Nicolas Baier

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page Summary (Free) arbiter, colourist, stain-ist, material-ist, collagist, designer (of interiors), assembler-operator – not to mention cameraman-editor – N.B. is a visual artist in the current sense of the term used for […]

Reading Photographs: Playing the Visual Literacy Game – Susan Close

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Essays
Authors: Susan Close

[Fall 2000] by Susan Close A knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of camera and pen alike. –Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1923 But What Does It Mean to Read a Photograph? Because of its representational and documentary qualities, photography has, […]

Ciel variable 52 – EVERYDAY OBJECTS

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS

[Fall 2000]

Portfolios : NICOLAS BAIER, RUDD VAN EMPEL, STORE |MARKET.
Focus : Reading Photographs: Playing the Visual Literacy Game.
Reviews : Mouvance et mutation – Marian Penner Bancroft, By Land and, Michel Lamothe – Même les cigales dormaient.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Susan Close, Emmanuel Galland, Mariona Fernández, Howard Ursuliak, François Dion, Mona Hakim, Bernard Lamarche.

Everyday Objects

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2000] by Jacques Doyon The way we glance at objects in a familiar environment could be the connection between the photographic works assembled for this issue. Whether these objects are contained within the household, a workplace, or a small business, they inhabit and condition our spaces and ways of life. For Nicolas Baier, the […]

Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage – Martha Langford

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Book Reviews
Authors: Diana Thorneycroft, Martha Langford

[Summer 2000] Meeka Walsh, editor, with contributions by Mary Ann Caws, Robert Enright, and Vicki Goldberg Winnipeg: Bain & Cox Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage is the first major book by the Winnipeg artist whose psychic explorations have been seen and much discussed in Canada for over a decade. All of Thorneycroft’s […]

Dominique Baqué, La photographie plasticienne. Un art paradoxal – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers, Dominique Baqué

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, éditions du Regard, 1998, 326 pages.

André Martin, Mes modèles. Autoportraits – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: André Martin

[Summer 2000] 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 11 mai au 13 août 2000