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 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Clément
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence du 16 mai au 18 juin 2000
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Graham | Artists: Alain Chagnon
[Summer 2000] by Robert Graham In June of 1998, fifty-year-old Quebec photographer Alain Chagnon undertook a journey. As a man and as a photographer, he was propelled in flight from the “here” of home in search of what must be found away and somewhere else. From this particular corner of the continent, he set out […]
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Xavier Ribas | Artists: Xavier Ribas
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Our leisure activities are less and less distinguishable from models of productivity. Organized leisure has tentacles. It is probably to escape this logic that people meet spontaneously in less domesticated […]
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Robin Laurence | Artists: Wanda Koop
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Best known as a painter, Wanda Koop is also a gifted videographer who produces scrolls of video stills as well as large-scale installations combining video projections and painting. Many of […]
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Essays
Authors: Olivier Asselin | Artists: Eugène Atget
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Asselin recalls the various modem figures of the walker and the modalities of their aesthetic contemplation. The photographer bears a resemblance to the Baudelairean figure of the flâneur, torn between […]
[Summer 2000]
Portfolios : WANDA KOOP, XAVIER RIBAS, ALAIN CHAGNON.
Focus : Une esthétique de chiffonnier (le photographe itinérant).
Reviews : Serge Clément – Persona, André Martin – Mes modèles. Autoportraits, Dominique Baqué – La photographie plasticienne. Un art paradoxal, Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Olivier Asselin, Robin Laurence, Xavier Ribas, Robert Graham, Mona Hakim, Sylvain Campeau, Christine Desrochers, Martha Langford.
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
by Jacques Doyon Travel is an inherent aspect of contemporary civilization. Whatever the distance, we have to see other places. We are all tourists, in one way or another, always foreigners to someone or some society, which we observe with mixed feelings of curiosity, empathy, rejection, or fear. The image has become the heart of […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers, Edmond Couchot
[Spring 2000] This text was originally published in French. No translation is available. Edmond Couchot, Nîmes, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon coll. Rayon Photo, 1998, 271 pages.
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Sylvie Readman
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Optica, Montréal du 29 octobre au 4 décembre 1999
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2000] by Gary Michael Dault Power Plant, Toronto from December 11, 1999, to February 20, 2000. Given the scope and ambition of the two photo-works that Angela Grauerholz presented recently at Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (which extend the inventiveness of her photo-installations for Documenta IX and the 1995 Carnegie International), it is […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Guy Lafontaine
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Since 1995, Guy Lafontaine has been working on a series of photographs examining transitional zones on the border of residential and industrial districts, mainly in neighbourhoods on the outskirts of […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Nicole Jolicoeur | Artists: Nicole Jolicoeur
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Geoffrey James
[Spring 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 Lethbridge Project looks at both the city and nature, and at their transformations. Geoffrey James evokes the way in which landscape, whether in the heart of the city or […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Essays
Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Jeffrey Thomas
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Summary A double artistic meaning is superimposed on the notion of landscape: invented images and real cultural territories. Adopting horizontality as a visual point of reference, Civilisation by Quebecer Ivan Binet and Cold City Frieze by Iroquois Jeffrey Thomas wander nomadically […]
[Spring 2000]
Portfolios : GEOFFREY JAMES, NICOLE JOLICOEUR, GUY LAFONTAINE.
Focus : Une esthétique de chiffonnier (le photographe itinérant).
Reviews : Angela Grauerholz – Sententia I-LXII and Schriftbilder, Sylvie Readman – Convergences élémentaires, Edmond Couchot – La technologie dans l’art.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Guy Siou Durand, Nicole Jolicoeur, Suzie Larivée, Gary Michael Dault, Mona Hakim, Christine Desrochers.
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2000] by Jacques Doyon The city, a constant subject of photography, distills all of the issues of society. It is both centre and periphery, a nucleus made of contradictory and hierarchical strata shooting out roots to invade an ever-broader territory. In this issue, we find images that are concerned not so much with the […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertien Van Manen, Pelle Kronestedt
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction de Pierre Blache, Marie-Josée Jean et Anne-Marie Ninacs, publié par Vox, centre de la diffusion de la photographie et Les 400 coups, Montréal, 1999, 233 pages.
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Émile Verdier | Artists: Johanne Gagnon
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Fonds culinaire is a photographic stock-taking of the physical congestion caused by kitchen objects. Since 1990, Johanne Gagnon has been working on creating a legitimate description of a kitchen from […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Bertrand Carrière, Michel Campeau | Artists: Robert Pelletier
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Intriguing, Wordless Stories from a Strange Reliquary The multi-paneled, serial works in Curiosité – Le Chercheur de trésor were the last made by Robert Pelleter before his death. They were […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Robert ParkeHarrison
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Paradoxical: This is how Sylvain Campeau defines the works of Robert ParkeHarrison. It is a paradox of a Resurrection that cannot help but take part in the Apocalypse; the paradox […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Essays
Authors: Peter Dubé
[Winter 1999-2000] by Peter Dubé One I clear my mind to walk into an empty room; a triumph of austerity. Carefully hung photographs line the shiny walls. Each frame is carefully positioned in relation to its neighbour, gracefully distanced. The glass atop the paper does not disrupt. Landscapes in soft, though oddly brilliant, colours. A […]
[Winter 1999-2000]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1999-2000] by Franck Michel All objects are both bases for relations and communications, signposts for our dreams, admitted or secret, and tools that we use to assimilate the world.1 — Serge Tisseron We have not often dealt with objects in these pages. Following a suggestion by Jennifer Couëlle, we decided that it was high […]
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement, Carol Dallaire, Loren Williams, Lucie Lefebvre, Nathalie Caron
[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: Ariane Thézé, Donigan Cumming, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Sylvie Readman
[Fall 1999] by Martha Langford Last time (the first time), millennial anxiety was deferred by a strategic announcement from the church fathers: the population’s fears of the apocalypse were premature, for the year to worry about was not 1000, but 1033. Logical enough, and pretty clever, for by then one could expect the people to […]
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Élène Tremblay
[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1999] by Franck Michel To mark Mois de la Photo à Montréal and the end of the millennium, issue 48 of CVphoto takes stock of Quebec photography in the nineties.Texts by Martha Langford and Mona Hakim and an interview with Élène Tremblay by Jennifer Couëlle sketch a portrait of a decade that was particularly […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers | Artists: Ghenadi Gatev
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Observatoire 4 10 avril au 8 mai 1999
