CONTACT Photography Festival, Imaging a global culture – David Balzer

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: David Balzer | Artists: David Maisel, John Ganis, Rita Leistner

[Fall 2006] Toronto May 1 – 31, 2006 The CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival’s tenth-anniversary theme was “Imaging a Global Culture,” a reasonable choice for a festival that, like the city that hosts it, likes to underscore perspectives from a range of locales, customs and ethnicities. The theme also has an optimistic, ingenuous ring to it, a possible […]

Recollecting home, Gabor Szilasi’s photographs of Exile and Return – Sharon Murray

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Essays
Authors: Sharon Murray | Artists: Gabor Szilasi

[Fall 2006] What is less well known is that he photographed in Hungary around the time of his flight to Canada in 1957 and again during his return to Budapest more than twenty years later. Photography was fundamental to Szilasi’s experience: it acted as a means for him to both articulate and negotiate the disjunction […]

La tyrannie paysagère – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Essays

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Since the nineteenth century, the rule for collecting photographic “landscapes” has allowed a certain “tyranny of the landscape” to endure and proliferate, making it so that the capturing of places […]

Janieta Eyre, What I haven’t told you – James D. Campbell, Her own private spectres, Janieta Eyre’s “Melancholy Grotesque”

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Janita Eyre

[Fall 2006] With this recent series of photographs, Janieta Eyre continues her phantasmic exploration of her inner world, her psychic fantasies, and the twists and turns of her personality, distancing herself from the self-portrait and transposing her mises en scene into models. The torments and fears of childbirth are portrayed, with the shame of the […]

Matthieu Brouillard, Les cadavres anticipés – Jean-Pierre Vidal, Le regard atterré et l’envol de l’imaginaire

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Matthieu Brouillard

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With the real artificiality, the true “falseness,” of his images, Matthieu Brouillard eloquently captures the imagination while deflecting the spectator’s regard toward what must be called a reflection on the […]

Gregory Crewdson, Beneath the roses – Cyril Thomas, La part mystérieuse de Gregory Crewdson, dévoilement et construction de l’image photographique

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Portfolios
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Gregory Crewdson

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The article outlines the career of Gregory Crewdson on the occasion of his retrospective at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur. Through an analysis of six photographic series, the author attempts to […]

Staging Anxiety

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2006] by Jacques Doyon The images brought together in this issue fall under the rubric of the “staged” photography. They are inscribed within a current that has flowed throughout the history of photography, as the exhibition Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, currently on at the National Gallery of Canada, brilliantly demonstrates. These practices […]

Ciel variable 73 – THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA

[Fall 2006]

Portfolios : GREGORY CREWDSON, MATTHIEU BROUILLARD, JANIETA EYRE.
Focus : La tyrannie paysagère, Gabor Szilasi’s photographs of Exile and Return.
Reviews : Imaging a global culture, CONTACT Photography Festival, BGL – Effet de mode et autres pirateries du genre, Mark Ruwedel, Maryse Larivière, Hala Elkoussy.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Cyril Thomas, Jean-Pierre Vidal, James D. Campbell, Suzanne Paquet, Sharon Murray, David Balzer, Ariane Noël de Tilly, Sylvain Campeau, SB Edwards, Michèle Cohen Hadria.

Point & Shoot, Performance and Photography – Anna Carlevaris

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Book Reviews
Authors: Anna Carlevaris | Artists: Diana Nemiroff, Doyon/Demers, Jan Peacock, Karen Henry, Rebecca Shneider

[Summer 2006] Point & Shoot Performance and Photography edited by France Choinière et Michèle Thériault Éditions Dazibao 2005 The latest in Galerie Dazibao’s series of publications on “hybrid” photographic practices introduces a timely subject: the relationship between photography and performance in Canadian art. Presented from both historical and theoretical perspectives, the collection of writings attempts […]

Angela Grauerholz, Reading Room for the Working Artist – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Summer 2006] VOX image contemporaine, Montreal January 28–March 18, 2006 There are two fantasmatic limits of the book to come, two extreme, final, eschatic figures of the end of the book, the end as death, or the end as telos and achievement. ⎯ Jacques Derrida, Paper Machine1 The archive unfolds in a lush, moving and […]

Laura Letinsky, Somewhere, Somewhere – Jessica Wyman

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jessica Wyman | Artists: Laura Letinsky

[Summer 2006] Oakville Galleries January 28–March 26, 2006 Even an anonymous hotel room speaks volumes of its transient guest after only a few hours. A place inhabited by the same person for a certain duration draws a portrait that resembles this person based on objects (present or absent) and the habits that they imply.1 Several […]

Sunil Gupta – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Sunil Gupta

[Summer 2006] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography November 25, 2005–April 23, 2006 Sunil Gupta is a storyteller. In decided contrast to Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment,” Gupta opts to engage the viewer with photographs that act as a series of narrative spaces – they are clues to moments in time as opposed to ruptures of time – suggesting a sense that […]

Guy Blackburn, Touche – Christine Gauthier

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christine Gauthier | Artists: Guy Blackburn

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Sagamie, Alma 8 décembre 2005 au 29 juin 2006

Jennifer Long, Doubt – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Jennifer Long

[Summer 2006] La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal 20 January–26 February 2006 The nine medium-scale colour photographs of women in this exhibition are akin to a searchlight focused on a troubling affliction of the heart that few today have not experienced at first hand: lover’s doubt. The images are powerfully interrogatory, offering an up-close and personal […]

Sylvie Readman – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre d’exposition Plein sud du 4 mars au 15 avril 2006 Centre d’exposition Expression du 18 mars au 23 avril 2006

Shirin Neshat, Zarin – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Shirin Neshat

[Summer 2006] Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin October 1–December 4, 2005 Through poetry/art humans have survived. – Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat’s chromatic single-channel projection Zarin (2005) had its premiere in Berlin. This 35 mm film, transferred to dvd, does not catapult viewers onto the seashore and into musical expanse – as does Passage – […]

Edward Burtynsky – Bruno Chalifour, L’oeil d’un coloriste sur le sublime contemporain

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Essays
Authors: Bruno Chalifour | Artists: Edward Burtynsky

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract This article addresses the new work by Edward Burtynsky as it was presented, in part, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In this exhibition, twenty-four images on contemporary China were […]

Manon De Pauw, Prendre position – Hélène Brunet Neumann, Le corps conjugué

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Portfolios
Authors: Hélène Brunet Neumann | Artists: Manon De Pauw

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Manon De Pauw’s photographic and videographic work stands out for its ludic liveliness, the richness of its formal compositions, and its poetically evocative power. De Pauw explores the playful relationship […]

Annie Baillargeon, Arabesques et grotesques – Guy Sioui Durand, L’image au corps, L’allégorie luxuriante des performances photos chez Annie Baillargeon

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Portfolios
Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Annie Baillargeon

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In today’s generalized culture of screen images, new “nondisciplines” are entering the visual arts, media arts, action art, and art theory. Digital technologies, in particular, are multiplying in inventiveness and […]

Erwin Wurm, Déséquilibre et inertie – Patrice Duhamel, Cet emploi du temps de l’entropie, du provisoire

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Portfolios
Authors: Patrice Duhamel | Artists: Erwin Wurm

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The situations in which Erwin Wurm involves us can be fully inscribed under the sign of potentiality. Beyond metaphysics, Wurm is interested in making the actual physique of bodies speak. […]

Image as Performance

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Summer 2006] by Jacques Doyon Instructions: define a field of operations that is compatible with the camera’s field, determine the procedures for choosing objects and the type of actions to produce, decide on a duration, insert a body into the recording field, perform the planned manipulations or interactions, and then re-evaluate the results of the […]

Ciel variable 72 – PHOTO PERFORMANCE

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE

[Summer 2006]

Portfolios : ERWIN WURM, ANNIE BAILLARGEON, MANON DE PAUW.
Focus :Edward Burtynsky – L’oeil d’un coloriste sur le sublime contemporain.
Reviews : Shirin Neshat, Sylvie Readman, Jennifer Long, Guy Blackburn, Sunil Gupta, Laura Letinsky, Angela Grauerholz, Point & Shoot, Performance and Photography.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Patrice Duhamel, Guy Sioui Durand, Hélène Brunet Neumann, Bruno Chalifour, Maria Zimmermann Brendel, Suzanne Paquet, James D. Campbell, Christine Gauthier, Johanna Mizgala, Jessica Wyman, Anna Carlevaris.

Arborealis. Thaddeus Holownia – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Thaddeus Holownia

[Spring 2006] Arborealis Thaddeus Holownia Anchorage Press 2005 The panoramic format in photography simultaneously poses delicate problems and offers sumptuous opportunities. The problems tend to centre around compositional matters – the way that the image, often more than twice as wide as it is high, is usually informed either by a conventional recourse to the […]

Controlled Disturbance, Donigan Cumming – Vincent Bonin

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Controlled Disturbance, Donigan Cumming Montréal, Vidéographe Coffret DVD 2005

Feintes_ doutes + fictions – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Feintes_ doutes + fictions Réflexions sur la photographie numérique Québec, éditions J’ai VU 2005

Covering the Real – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews
Authors: Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Martha Rosler

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Covering the Real Art and the Press Picture from Warhol to Tillmans Kunstmuseum Basel DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag 2005

Doyon-Rivest – Kevin Temple

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Kevin Temple | Artists: Mathieu Doyon, Simon Rivest

[Spring 2006] Doyon-Rivest thanks for being there October 27–November 26, 2005 Gallery TPW The work of Doyon-Rivest asks the simple question, If the world of advertising can exploit art and artists for financial benefit, then why can’t artists appropriate the tools of advertising in their art practice? When you set aside the alleged lofty goals […]

Jeff Wall – Cyril Thomas

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Jeff Wall

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Tate Modern, Londres du 21 octobre 2005 au 8 janvier 2006

Diana Thorneycroft – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Diana Thorneycroft

[Spring 2006] The Canadiana Martyrdom Series Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal November 17 – December 21, 2005 I make of Her an image of Death so as not to be shattered through the hatred I bear against myself when I identify with Her. . . . Thus the feminine as image of death is not only […]

(Un)framing Interior Views Cultural Geography in the Work of Lynne Cohen – Jean-François Bélisle

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Essays
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Spring 2006] by Jean-François Bélisle Since the early 1970s, Cohen has lived and worked in no fewer than nine countries, photographing unpopulated interiors in public and private establishments such as schools, spas, and laboratories. Her practice has been informed by her nomadic lifestyle. Her mostly black-and-white images may seem to be documentations of specific awkward […]

Roy Arden, The World as Will and Representation – Dieter Roelstraete, Les mots et les choses, Alternating Currents in Roy Arden’s Net.art

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: Dieter Roelstraete | Artists: Roy Arden

[Spring 2006] by Dieter Roelstraete In The World as Will and Representation, his first-ever online/Internet art project, acclaimed Vancouver artist Roy Arden returns to the archival tropes, modes, and motifs that helped give decisive shape to his landmark works from the mid-1980s, the best known of which are the Rupture, Abjection, and Mission “series” or […]

Roy Arden, The World as Will and Representation – Roy Arden, Notes on The World as Will and Representation (Archive, 2004–)

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Artists: Roy Arden

[Spring 2006] Roy Arden’s piece presents a kaleidoscopic flux of some 10,000 images extracted from the web, depicting different manifestations of the concrete world. Structured around arbitrary entries, it deploys so many numerous variations that we are left in a state of amazement and confusion. By Roy Arden I have collected images since I was […]

Emmanuelle Léonard, Resguárdeme – André-Louis Paré, Emmanuelle Léonard : une histoire de l’œil

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: André-Louis Paré | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard, Sean Reuthler

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The author bases himself on Michel Foucault’s analysis of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon to examine the works of Emmanuelle Léonard – more specifically, the video installation Guardia, resguárdeme (Guard, protect me), […]

Chih-Chien Wang, The Centre of the Forest Is a Lake Like Mirror – Alice Ming Wai Jim, Domestic Trajectories

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: Alice Ming Wai Jim | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

[Spring 2006] The piece, initially presented at Dazibao, covered the entire walls of the gallery with dozens of images and two video works. Each photography is like a suspended moment in time, extracted from a continuous flux in which perception, memory and culture intermingle to create a personal trajectory and identity. Newspaper Wrap, on the […]

Image World

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Spring 2006] by Jacques Doyon In this issue, we feature works that, in their profusion and scope, offer a glimpse at the condition of the world as it is manifested and revealed through the mechanisms for fabrication and circulation of images. These image systems are of different dimensions, ranging from identity as it is defined […]

Ciel variable 71 – IMAGE WORLD

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD

[Spring 2006]

Portfolios : CHIH-CHIEN WANG, EMMANUELLE LÉONARD, ROY ARDEN.
Focus : (Un)framing Interior Views Cultural Geography in the Work of Lynne Cohen.
Reviews : Diana Thorneycroft, Jeff Wall, Doyon-Rivest, Covering the Real, Feintes_ doutes + fictions, Donigan Cumming – Controlled Disturbance, Arborealis.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Alice Ming Wai Jim, André-Louis Paré, Roy Arden, Dieter Roelstraete, Jean-François Bélisle, James D. Campbell, Cyril Thomas, Kevin Temple, Vincent Lavoie, Vincent Bonin, Sylvain Campeau, Gary Michael Dault.

Territoires urbains – Serge Bérard

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Christian Barré, Emmanuelle Léonard, Isabelle Hayeur, Martin Désilets, Myriam Yates, Pavel Pavlov

[Winter 2005-2006] 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 Montréal 7 octobre 2005 au 8 janvier 2006

Nobuyoshi Araki – Cyril Thomas

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Araki Nobuyoshi

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Palais de Tokyo Paris 8 octobre 2005

Iain Baxter& – Serge Bérard

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Iain Baxter&, N.E. Thing Co.

[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine Montréal 10 septembre au 22 octobre 2005

Dieter Appelt Forth Bridge — Cinema. Metric Space – Ann Thomas

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ann Thomas | Artists: Dieter Appelt

[Winter 2005-2006] Canadian Centre for Architecture March 9–May 22, 2005 Ever since Dieter Appelt dedicated his career to making photographs in the early 1970s, he has addressed ontological issues relating to the nature of life, death, and the transmission of experience and memory. He has done this not only by developing complex sequencing structures for […]

Le mois de la photo à Montréal: Image and Imagination – Anna Carlevaris

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anna Carlevaris | Artists: Adad Hannah, Diane Borsato, Michael Snow, Mike Yuhasz, Polixeni Papapetrou, Rafael Goldchain

[Winter 2005-2006] Le mois de la photo à Montréal September 8–October 10, 2005 Montreal’s biennial of photography marks its ninth edition this year under the artistic stewardship of Martha Langford, founding director and former chief curator of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (1983–94). It takes someone with Langford’s expertise to curate what has become […]

Paul Lacroix, Pulsations – Lisanne Nadeau, Paul Lacroix : l’œuvre au noir

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: Lisanne Nadeau | Artists: Paul Lacroix

[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract All of Paul Lacroix’s works are imbued with his fascination with the marking of a vast, luminous surface of paper. From drawing to photogram, he attracts us with an unvarying, […]

Claudia Fährenkemper, Microcosms – AnnThomas, Interpreting the Microcosm through Photographs

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: Ann Thomas | Artists: Claudia Fährenkemper

[Winter 2005-2006] German photographer Claudia Fährenkemper’s powerful black and white photomicrographs are a contemporary expression of the centuries-old human need to know what lies beneath the surface of things. Taken with a scanning electron microscope, her photographs of insects, crystals and planktons provide a sensual encounter with the microcosm and its morphology that lead to […]

Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Prélèvements – Sylvain Campeau, Conduction lumineuse du vivant

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Campeau examines the scope and consequences of what seems to be implied by the possibility that objects can produce their own visible radiation, thereby challenging the very notion of photographic […]

Michael Flomen, Photograms – James D. Campbell, A Palimpsest of Pale Fire: The Fabulist Photography of Michael Flomen

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Michael Flomen

[Winter 2005-2006] Michael Flomen’s works encompass an abstract, oneiric space that we cannot easily reference, for it is openly ambiguous, hovering somewhere between the dream and the waking moment. Whether rain and snowfalls registering at night on handmade photograms (Teeming), the evidentiary bioluminescence of fireflies caught on photographic flypaper in the dead of night as […]

That which we cannot see

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Winter 2005-2006] by Jacques Doyon Seeing better, seeing farther; disrupting the representation, dissolving it: these approaches seem contradictory. Yet, paradoxically, they hew to a single frontier: that of the visible and representable, that of the limit of our capacity to see and our perceptual expectations. They meet in a common exploration of light as a […]

Ciel variable 70 – MATERIA ET LUMEN

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN

[Winter 2005-2006]

Portfolios : MICHAEL FLOMEN, MARIE-JEANNE MUSIOL, CLAUDIA FÄHRENKEMPER, PAUL LACROIX.
Reviews : Le mois de la photo à Montréal: Image and Imagination, Dieter Appelt Forth Bridge – Cinema. Metric Space, Iain Baxter&, Nobuyoshi Araki, Territoires urbains.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, James D. Campbell, Sylvain Campeau, AnnThomas, Lisanne Nadeau, Anna Carlevaris, Ann Thomas, Serge Bérard, Cyril Thomas, Serge Bérard.

Peter MacCallum : Material World – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Peter MacCallum

[Fall 2005] Peter MacCallum:Material World YYZ Books and Museum London 2004 Since the late 1960s, Toronto photographer Peter MacCallum has been devoting a great deal of his time to documenting the work of other visual artists. It has been a long, exacting sojourn in alternate sensibilities that might well have exhausted anyone less determined than […]

David Tomas : A Blinding Flash of Light – Pavel Pavlov

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Pavel Pavlov | Artists: David Tomas

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. David Tomas:A Blinding Flash of Light Photography Between Disciplines and Media Dazibao 2004

Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Fall 2005] Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies Montréal, Occurrence 2005 Emmanuelle Léonard has exhibited a growing body of work since 1996, steadily evolving into a contemporary photographer whose next project is eagerly anticipated. Her complex images not only explore the theoretical terrain between photographer, subject, and viewer, but also serve to disentangle pervasively […]

André Rouillé : La photographie – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Vincent Lavoie

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. André Rouillé : La photographie Paris, Gallimard 2005

The Venice Biennale : 51st International Art Exhibition – Jean-François Bélisle

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Caio Reisewitz, George Hadjimichalis, Natalija Vujosevic, Oscar Muñoz, Rebecca Belmore

[Fall 2005] Venice, Italy June 12 – November 6, 2005 The cutting edge of today’s art ought to be the stuff of tomorrow, or so the contemporary belief goes. A visit to the fifty-first edition of the Venice Biennale highlights the importance and complexity of the relationship between the two elements of this belief: time […]

Damage Done. Materializing the Photographic Image – Kim Simon

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Kim Simon | Artists: Jennifer Givogue

[Fall 2005] Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto May 5–June 11, 2005 Photographer and curator Vid Ingelevics is becoming known for his smart and poetic exhibitions. His installations often form wonderful intertexts, implicitly exploring the complex relationship between photography, its institutions of collection and dissemination, and the production and retention of knowledge. On its surface, […]

Donigan Cumming, Moving Pictures – David Balzer

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Donigan Cumming | Artists: David Balzer

[Fall 2005] April 9–May 22, 2005 Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art The word “harrowing” readily pops to mind when viewing Donigan Cumming’s work. This word has broad, stock associations with both individual and empathic suffering: a lengthy battle with an illness, one’s experience nursing a friend through an illness, and, perhaps most oddly, an affecting, […]

Instandstillnessence – Vincent Bonin

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: John Oswald

[Fall 2005] 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 du 7 avril au 14 août 2005

Cheryl Sourkes: Cam Work – Jessica Wyman, Cheryl Sourkes: Surveilling the Field

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Jessica Wyman | Artists: Cheryl Sourkes

[Fall 2005] Cheryl Sourkes has been surfing and capturing webcam images for several years, and her work serves to articulate for viewers some of the ponderous questions that emerge in seeing the world differently through this particular technology. Sourkes’s current practice is not one of making images so much as it is one of selecting […]

Pierre Granche, Miroirs / reflets / trouées – Alain Laframboise, Dans la ville instable

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Alain Laframboise | Artists: Pierre Granche

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Highlighting the similarities between the convex mirror used by Pierre Granche in his series of photographs and Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1524), the mirror that Brunelleschi used in […]

SYN- : Prospectus, Ville intérieure, randonnée dans un hyperbâtiment – Johanne Sloan, Appropriating the Megastructure

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Johanne Sloan | Artists: SYN–

[Fall 2005] By Johanne Sloan SYN–’s Prospectus (2003–04)1 points to contradictions in the relationship between contemporary artists and the city. This sequence of eighty-one photographs shows the SYN– members wandering around and engaged in play at various locations in the “hyperbuilding” otherwise known as Montreal’s underground city. Their sensibility might be akin to that of […]

Beholding the City

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue is about our ways of apprehending, representing, and acting in the contemporary city. The works presented here are all characterized by the inclusion within the images of a multiplicity of points of view and a distinct process of observation. They examine different aspects of an urbanity that is […]

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY

[Fall 2005]

Portfolios : SYN-, PIERRE GRANCHE, CHERYL SOURKES.
Reviews : Instandstillnessence, Donigan Cumming – Moving Pictures, Damage Done. Materializing the Photographic Image, The Venice Biennale : 51st International Art Exhibition.
Readings : André Rouillé, Emmanuelle Léonard, David Tomas, Peter MacCallum.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Johanne Sloan, Alain Laframboise, Jessica Wyman, Vincent Bonin, David Balzer, Kim Simon, Jean-François Bélisle, Johanna Mizgala, Vincent Lavoie, Pavel Pavlov, Gary Michael Dault.

Karen Henderson – Natalie Olanick

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Natalie Olanick | Artists: Karen Henderson

[Summer 2005] Optica Centre for Contemporary Arts, Montréal March 5 to April 9, 2005 There has always been a quiet elegance to Karen Henderson’s works. The artist, generally working with photo-based installations, is interested in the creation of carefully executed, labour-intensive works, in which consideration of the materials used moves beyond the object itself and […]

Michel de Broin et Ève K. Tremblay – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay, Michel de Broin

[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Honeymoons Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain, Du 6 novembre au 18 décembre 2004

Thomas Demand – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Thomas Demand

[Summer 2005] The Museum of Modern Art, New York 4 March – 30 May, 2005 Looking at one of Thomas Demand’s photographs of a carefully replicated environment provokes a strange sensation of simultaneous recognition and disavowal. The composition contains familiar objects, and it seems familiar because it stems from seeing a similar image in another […]

Claude-Philippe Benoit – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Claude-Philippe Benoît

[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Lilian Rodriguez Du 19 mars au 23 avril 2005

Denis Farley, Irradiations – Johanna Mizgala, Wanderings through Light

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Denis Farley

[Summer 2005] In his Irradiations series as in his earlier works, Denis Farley partakes in an ongoing investigation of the nature of photography as a self-conscious gesture. In a string of works produced following a site-specific group exhibition in the Canadian government’s once top-secret underground bunker, and now a decommissioned relic of the Cold War, […]

Liza Nguyen, Souvenirs du Vietnam – Octave Debary, Vietnam : photographies et éthique du souvenir

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Octave Debary | Artists: Liza Nguyen

[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract What meaning should be given to the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon? This text analyzes how Souvenirs du Vietnam, a work by Liza Nguyen, offers […]

Bertrand Carrière, Caux – Gary Michael Dault, CAUX: Photographs by Bertrand Carrière

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Summer 2005] In three recent interrelated works, Bertrand Carrière explores ways of expressing the memories embedded in the landscape at the site of the Dieppe Raid of 1942. The Caux series constitutes a long meditation on the sense of purposelessness and loss embodied by that very landscape. It was preceded by Jubilee, an installation in […]

Melvin Charney, UN DICTIONNAIRE… série 100 : New York, 9/11/2001 – Anne Bénichou, Des ruines et des corps pour penser le monde, un entretien avec Melvin Charney

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Anne Bénichou | Artists: Melvin Charney

[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In the early 1970s, Melvin Charney began a work in progress, UN DICTIONNAIRE…, a collection of press-agency photographs, published in newspapers, in which buildings and cities involved in current events […]

Memories of the Disaster

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Summer 2005] by Jacques Doyon The works in this issue fall under the sign of things that are beyond comprehension. The list of catastrophic events that have left bitter traces on our democratic ideals in the last half-century is long. Current events dealt with in contemporary visual arts bring to mind some of these unimaginable […]

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER

[Summer 2005]

Portfolios : MELVIN CHARNEY, BERTRAND CARRIÈRE, LIZA NGUYEN, DENIS FARLEY.
Reviews : Claude-Philippe Benoît, Thomas Demand, Karen Henderson, Michel de Broin et Ève K. Tremblay.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Anne Bénichou, Gary Michael Dault, Octave Debary, Johanna Mizgala, Suzanne Paquet, Johanna Mizgala, Sylvain Campeau, Natalie Olanick.

Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine Éditions J’ai Vu, collection L’opposite, Québec, 2004, 111 p.

Le troisième œil. La photographie et l’occulte – Bernard Lamarche

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Bernard Lamarche | Artists: Édouard Isidore Buguet, Eugène Thiebault

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Le troisième oeil. La photographie et l’occulte Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine, Denis Canguilhem, Sophie Schmit Paris, Gallimard, 2004, 287 p.

Photography. Crisis of History – Hélène Samson

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson, Joan Fontcuberta

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Photography. Crisis of History sous la direction de Joan Fontcuberta, Barcelone, Actar, 2004, 253 p.

Michael Snow: Digital Snow – Mario Côté

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Mario Côté | Artists: Michael Snow

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michael Snow: Digital Snow Collection Anarchives Collection Anarchives (sous la direction d’Anne-Marie Duguet) Paris, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002

Rodney Graham : A Little Thought – Tetsuomi Anzai

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Tetsuomi Anzai | Artists: Rodney Graham

[Spring 2005] March 30–June 27, 2004 Art Gallery of Ontario Earlier this year, the Art Gallery of Ontario played host to a major retrospective of Rodney Graham’s work, featuring over twenty-five works from an artistic practice dating back to the 1970s. While much of the focus was on his recent film and video installations, also […]

Manon Labrecque: Raid – Jean-Pierre Vidal

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Manon Labrecque

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi, du 9 septembre au 10 octobre 2004.

Roberto Pellegrinuzzi: Foliacées – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Roberto Pellegrinuzzi

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Thérèse Dion Art contemporain, Montréal du 3 septembre au 2 octobre 2004

Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala

[Spring 2005] International Center for Photography, New York 17 September – 28 November 2004 From its earliest days, photography has been used to bear witness to acts of violence and inhumanity. Its strength lies in the power to capture events as they transpire, to cast these events in a mantle of truth, and to circulate […]

Raymonde April: Bifurcations – Serge Bérard

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre culturel Yvonne L. Bombardier, Valcourt (Québec), du 19 octobre 2004 au 20 février 2005

Life on the Edge of Perception: Immobility in Recent Video Installations – Randolph Jordan

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Essays
Authors: Randolf Jordan | Artists: David Claerbout, NomIg

[Spring 2005] by Randolph Jordan Frame-by-frame analysis confirms that beneath the apparent non-movement of the plant world, the most awful and violent things are brewing: heart-rending torsions, horrible intertwinings, endless growth . . . such is Man. No moment is ever as intense as when there is no more outward bodily agitation to hide the infinitesimal speed […]

David Claerbout, Moments réflexifs – Valérie Lamontagne, David Claerbout : le spectre du temps

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Valérie Lamontagne | Artists: David Claerbout

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The author considers David Claerbout’s work in relation to the overlapping histories of cinema and photography and suggests that the etymological and perceptive frictions that have developed between these media […]

Stan Denniston, Time Passages – Cheryl Sourkes, Stan Denniston: Stills

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Cheryl Sourkes | Artists: Stan Denniston

[Spring 2005] Using long, continuous video takes and the static camera position of the still photographer to capture what at first appears to be inert subject matter–geological formations, deserted highways and other abandoned sites—Stan Denniston’s ‘fixed focus’ movies invoke an uncanny temporal sensibility. Subject movement is minimal and unpredictable, defined as it is by the […]

Tetsuomi Anzai, Still Breathing – Cheryl Simon, Time Travels: Mixed-Media Works by Tetsuomi Anzai

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Tetsuomi Anzai

[Spring 2005] Each the product of a very particular combination of media generated imagery, Tetsuomi Anzai’s mixed media installation works offer unique perspectives on a world increasingly apprehended through pictures. Whether stills enlivened through video animation techniques, video loops upturned to approximate the live streaming of camera obscura technology, or satellite renderings rolled, spun and […]

Fiona Tan, Déprises identitaires – Vincent Bonin, L’emploi du temps : travail et désœuvrement dans Countenance de Fiona Tan

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: Fiona Tan

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In the installation Countenance (2001), Fiona Tan uses film to quote the archiving and photographing methods behind August Sander’s photographic recension project Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Men of the twentieth […]

Adad Hannah, Surface Tension – Will Straw, Adad Hannah: Struggling Against Time

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Will Straw | Artists: Adad Hannah

[Spring 2005] On the very threshold of immobility, Adad Hannah’s works are initially interpreted by our eyes as being static images – only to eventually reveal subtle movements that betray their nature as works of video rather than of still photography. Recalling a history of negotiated relationships between the static and moving image, these revelations […]

Still moving

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Editorial
Authors: Cheryl Simon

[Spring 2005] by Cheryl Simon The photo-based installation projects featured in this special issue of Ciel variable exhibit a paradoxical sense of temporality. Although all are presented as time-based installations, hence moving imagery, the prevailing temporal logic characterizing this body of work is that of stillness. For this reason, the temporal sensibility here is more […]

Ciel variable 67 – STILL MOVING

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING

[Spring 2005]

Portfolios : ADAD HANNAH, FIONA TAN, TETSUOMI ANZAI, STAN DENNISTON, DAVID CLAERBOUT.
Reviews : Raymonde April, Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Manon Labrecque, Rodney Graham.
Readings : Michael Snow, Photography – Crisis of History, Le troisième œil, Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine.
Authors : Will Straw, Vincent Bonin, Cheryl Simon, Cheryl Sourkes, Valérie Lamontagne, Randolph Jordan, Serge Bérard, Johanna Mizgala, Sylvain Campeau, Jean-Pierre Vidal, Tetsuomi Anzai, Mario Côté, Hélène Samson, Bernard Lamarche.

Raymonde April – Jean-Claude Rochefort, Bifurcations. Notes et matériaux

Ciel variable 66B - RAYMONDE APRIL | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Claude Rochefort | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The author observes, first, that the artist maintains an emotional relationship with nature and that an ontology of the landscape is manifested in her work because there is a profound […]

New Directions

Ciel variable 66B - RAYMONDE APRIL | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue of CV ciel variable is extraordinary in more than one way. Our portfolio pages are devoted exclusively to presenting a work that we feel is particularly important, Reading Room for the Working Artist, Angela Grauerholz’s most recent piece. This issue also includes an insert, produced in collaboration with […]

Ciel variable 66B – RAYMONDE APRIL

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David Rokeby – Jessica Fung

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jessica Fung | Artists: David Rokeby

[Spring 2005] Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario 25 June to 17 October 2004 David Rokeby is perhaps one of Canada’s most important figures in the art world – certainly in the electronic art world. He has received the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, presented at the Venice Biennale, and the Governor General’s Award in Visual and […]

Bettina Hoffmann, Spoilsport / Trouble-fête – Marie Fraser

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Marie Fraser | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Spoilsport / Trouble-fête Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Montréal du 15 juillet au 26 septembre 2004

Thomas Kneubühler – SB Edwards

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: SB Edwards | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

[Spring 2005] Office 2000 Skol, Montréal du 3 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 The vivid night shots feature generic office-tower exteriors, often providing direct views into the cubicles within. The similarity between the buildings is eased by the variation in range from the subjects. The more distant vantages confront us with the sheer might and […]

Peter Greenaway – Colin Burnett

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colin Burnett | Artists: Peter Greenaway

[Spring 2005] Tulse Luper Suitcases (Parts I–III, 2003–04) The Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema October 14-24, 2004 Even under “normal” circumstances, Peter Greenaway is a “difficult” director. With Tulse Luper Suitcases, the filmmaker makes the viewer leap out of trenches to confront three films totalling seven hours in length – and not just any three, […]

Éveil / Fabulation – Michel Hellman

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michel Hellman | Artists: Mark Lewis, Mary Kunuk

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. commissaire : Marie Fraser Vox, Montréal 28 avril au 16 octobre et 8 mai au 10 juillet 2004

Alexandre Castonguay, Digitale – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain, Montréal du 17 juin au 11 septembre 2004

The Atlas Group and Walid Raad – Chen Tamir

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Chen Tamir, Vid Ingelevics | Artists: Atlas group, Walid Raad

[Spring 2005] I Was Overcome by a Momentary Panic at the Thought that They Were Right: Documents from the Nassar Files in the Atlas Group Archive Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 15 September–14 November, 2004 Mortar shells were almost a daily occurrence the year I was posted in Lebanon as part of my service […]

The Atlas Group and Walid Raad – Vid Ingelevics

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vid Ingelevics | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay

[Spring 2005] The Truth Will Be Known when the Last Witness Is Dead: Documents from the Fakhouri File at the Atlas Group Archive AGYU at Prefix ICA, Toronto, September 16–November 27, 2004 At the heart of history is a critical discourse that is antithetical to spontaneous memory. History is perpetually suspicious of memory, and its […]

Angela Grauerholz, images tirées du film Ephemeris (extraits)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] The question today is, however – perhaps has always been – how somebody can appropriate (in fact steal) somebody else’s doing and yet make something of it that is uniquely his own. In other words, the question is not what are the models to be followed or that are being followed, but what […]

Angela Grauerholz, Sans titre (washed water) (extraits)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005]

Angela Grauerholz, Sans titre (circular) (extraits)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Angela Grauerholz, Sans titre (artists regrouping) (extraits)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Angela Grauerholz, Sans titre (Courting death) (extraits)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Angela Grauerholz, Épiphytes (extraits)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] World-view and self-image are indissolubly intertwined with each other. The way man sees the world is the way he sees himself; the way he conceives himself is the way he conceives the world. Alterations in his view of the world lead to alterations in his view of himself and vice versa. ⎯ Christopher […]

Angela Grauerholz et ses livres (extraits) – Colette Tougas

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Essays
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In this essay, the author stresses two characteristics of Angela Grauerholz’s photographic corpus: the fortuitous and the systematic. The author highlights the important role played by desire on the part […]

Angela Grauerholz, Familiaris (extraits)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Angela Grauerholz, La flâneuse (extraits)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] There is no question of inventing the flaneuse: the essential point is that such a character was rendered impossible by the sexual divisions of the nineteenth century. Nor is it appropriate to reject totally the existing literature on modernity, for the experiences it describes certainly defined a good deal of the lives of […]

Angela Grauerholz, Vorbilder (modèles)

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005]

Between Heaven and Earth, the Loci and the Cosmos: At Work in the Reading Room for the Working Artist – Cheryl Simon

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Essays
Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

by Cheryl Simon The relation of language to the world is one of analogy rather than of signification; or rather, [the value of words] as signs and their duplicating function are superimposed; they speak the heaven and the earth of which they are the image. Language possesses a symbolic function; but since the disaster at […]

Angela Grauerholz: Salle de lecture de l’artiste au travail

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005]

Readings

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue of CV ciel variable is extraordinary in more than one way. Our portfolio pages are devoted exclusively to presenting a work that we feel is particularly important, Reading Room for the Working Artist, Angela Grauerholz’s most recent piece. This issue also includes an insert, produced in collaboration with […]

Ciel variable 66 – ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ

[Spring 2005] + CIEL VARIABLE 66B – RAYMONDE APRIL [May 2005]

Portfolios : ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ, RAYMONDE APRIL.
Focus : Between Heaven and Earth, the Loci and the Cosmos, Angela Grauerholz et ses livres (extraits).
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, Cheryl Simon, Colette Tougas, Chen Tamir, Vid Ingelevics, Sylvain Campeau, Michel Hellman, Colin Burnett, SB Edwards, Marie Fraser, Jessica Fung, Jean-Claude Rochefort.

Exposer la photographie – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Book Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim

[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sadko Hadzihasanovic: El Comandante – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Sadko Hadzihasanovic

[Fall 2004] 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 avril au 2 mai 2004

Photographic Memory: The Experience of Performance Performance and Photography: POINT & SHOOT – Dayna McLeod

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Adad Hannah, Carl Bouchard, Martin Dufrasne, Vito Acconci

[Fall 2004] March 4–May 22, 2004 Dazibao, Montréal Performance and Photography: POINT & SHOOT is a three-part exhibition project curated by Michèle Thériault and France Choinière that examines the photograph as performance prop, subject, and object, and the photographic process as performative act, witness, and documentarian. Shown at Dazibao in March, April, and May 2004, […]

Klaus Scherübel – Reinhard Braun, The Artist at Work

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Reinhard Braun | Artists: Klaus Scherübel

[Fall 2004] In his series Untitled (The Artist at Work), Klaus Scherübel presents a paradoxical system of references to myths and phantasms of modernism and to descriptive contexts of current art. To take the title or the visual appearance as a starting point already implies taking part in a discourse that is subverted by the […]

Hicham Benohoud, Version soft – Lyne Crevier, résister

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Lyne Crevier | Artists: Hicham Benohoud

[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In his series of self-portraits Version soft, the Moroccan artist Hicham Benohoud has metamorphosed his features by “martyrizing” his head in harsh photographs recalling those in Photomatons or mug shots. […]

Pascal Grandmaison, Portraits – Christine Bernier, Cet autre regard du portrait

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Christine Bernier | Artists: Pascal Grandmaison

[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Pascal Grandmaison’s photographic and videographic work is often defined as renewing the concept of the portrait. This text explains that the innovation of Grandmaison’s portraits is situated more in the […]

Enigmatic Portraits

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2004] by Jacques Doyon This issue contains examples of current portrait practices that can be associated with various sub-categories of the genre: group of young people posing in the studio, series of self-portraits inspired by a play on the mask, the figure of the artist in the presence of his working materials. As different […]

Ciel variable 65 – PORTRAITS

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS

[Fall 2004]

Portfolios : ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ, RAYMONDE APRIL.
Focus : Between Heaven and Earth, the Loci and the Cosmos, Angela Grauerholz et ses livres (extraits), Raymonde April – Bifurcations. Notes et matériaux.
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, Cheryl Simon, Colette Tougas, Chen Tamir, Vid Ingelevics, Sylvain Campeau, Michel Hellman, Colin Burnett, SB Edwards, Marie Fraser, Jessica Fung, Jean-Claude Rochefort.