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Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Penny Cousineau-Levine McGill-Queen’s University Press Montréal/Kingston 2003
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire, Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Dennis Adams
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maintenant. Images du temps présent sous la direction de Vincent Lavoie Le Mois de la photo à Montréal 2003, 320 p.
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Wojciech Prazmowski
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Photographies de la Communauté française de Belgique, de Pologne, du Québec Organisé par le centre VU, Québec 16 janvier au 15 février 2004
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: Elizabeth Menon | Artists: Jason Salavon
[Summer 2004] Jason Salavon employs computers and code to transform material appropriated from popular culture. His work ranges from digital video installations to Web-based interactive works and works on computers to create paintings that blur the line between manmade and machine aesthetic. His photo and video-based print works cultivate a dual aesthetic of painterly veils […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: George Bogardi | Artists: Louis Joncas
[Summer 2004] The Detritus series is an ongoing investigation of Joncas’s material existence, informed by still-life painting and vanitas. The series depicts the detritus of domestic life and everyday survival. It questions rituals and banal chores – such as cleaning, eating, grooming, and consuming – that leave behind an endless trail of detritus. The objects […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Ève Charron | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Gwenaël Bélanger’s series Chutes follows in the spirit of early-twentieth-century studies on transcription of movement. Each series uses a sequential modality to reconstitute the trajectory of everyday objects abandoned in […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2004] by Jacques Doyon The optical devices, the renderings of light and perspectives, and the compositional modes inherited from the pictorial tradition form, even today, one of the foundations of our modes of representation, including for media based on the recording of the real and on digitization. The search for artistic legitimacy has long […]
[Summer 2004]
Portfolios : GWENAËL BÉLANGER, LOUIS JONCAS, JASON SALAVON.
Focus : La disparition, Maintenant. Images du temps présent, FAKING DEATH Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination.
Reviews : The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Alexandre Castonguay, Digitale, Éveil / Fabulation, Peter Greenaway, Thomas Kneubühler, Bettina Hoffmann, Spoilsport / Trouble-fête, David Rokeby.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Marie-Ève Charron, George Bogardi, Elizabeth Menon, Suzanne Paquet, Serge Allaire, Hélène Samson.
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Book Reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau (dir.) Fondation J. Armand Bombardier Valcourt, 2003, 97 p.
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Book Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala
[Spring 2004] Earle, Edward W., et al., eds. (New York: International Center for Photography and Göttigen: Steidl Publishers, 2003). ICP Exhibition dates: 12 September–30 November 2003. The International Center for Photography offered its first foray into the proliferation of international art festivals with its recent exhibition, Strangers. It is somewhat surprising that New York does […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Krystel Wallet, Sophie Mendelsohn | Artists: Sorel Cohen
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract During a stay in Paris, Sorel Cohen set up her camera in different psychoanalysts’ offices. The result was a series of images around the analyst’s couch, the body that we […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Nikki S. Lee
[Spring 2004] par Dayna McLeod In “Image #6” of Nikki Lee’s The Punk Project series, two punks are seated on the cement steps of an innocuous building. He has a closely cropped mohawk and wears camouflage pants with a leather jacket thrown across his lap. She wears ripped net stockings over striped tights, and a […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Massimo Guerrera | Artists: Massimo Guerrera
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Eduardo Ralickas | Artists: Yinka Shonibare
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Yinka Shonibare’s works can be characterized in terms of their powerful deconstruction of Western notions of identity. In this light, the artist’s embrace of the figure of the dandy is […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2004] by Jacques Doyon The works brought together in this issue offer a variety of avenues for understanding the ways in which the mise en scène of the self is created in response to the other and how this representation is received. Their grounds of exploration are diametrically opposed: from aristocratic dandyism to the […]
[Spring 2004]
Portfolios : YINKA SHONIBARE, MASSIMO GUERRERA, NIKKI S. LEE, SOREL COHEN.
Readings: Strangers – The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, Jocelyne Alloucherie – Glissements.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Eduardo Ralickas, Massimo Guerrera, Dayna McLeod, Sophie Mendelsohn, Krystel Wallet, Johanna Mizgala, Suzanne Paquet.
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christopher Brayshaw | Artists: Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Thomas Struth
[Winter 2003] Vancouver Art Gallery 15 March–1 September 2003 Curated by Bruce Grenville and Melanie O’Brian “With the recent acquisition of more than sixty works by sixteen internationally acclaimed artists, the Vancouver Art Gallery now holds one of the most comprehensive contemporary photo-based art collections in North America.” So begins the curatorial apologia for the […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Nan Goldin
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal du 22 mai au 7 septembre 2003
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Karen Love | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay, Allan MacKay, Arnaud Maggs, Barbara Woodley, Charles Gagnon, Chris Lund, Chris Mikula, David Barbour, David Cation, Duncan Cameron, Evergon, Germaine Koh, Jeffrey Thomas, Jerry Grey, Justin Wonnacott, Ken Lum, Larissa Fassler, Lynn Ball, Max Dean, Michael Schreier, Michael Snow, Paul Couvrette, Rod MacIvor, Sylvain Cousineau, Tony Fouhse, Trevor Gould
[Winter 2003] The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa, organized for the Ottawa Art Gallery by Karen Love, gathers together over 200 Ottawa portraits by 78 image-makers, presented thematically in order to provoke a range of questions about how we understand the idea of a portrait. No longer simply an accurate depiction of physical characteristics or […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Scott Walden | Artists: Scott Walden
[Winter 2003] Scott Walden’s Unsettled was produced following a summer spent in Newfoundland photographing the remnants of abandoned coastal communities, casualties of government programs seeking to centralize the new province’s scattered population. The resulting book, Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities, gathers some forty images reproduced in duotone, along with many vintage photographs […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Guido Guidi, Marco Signorini, Paola Di Bello, Sergio Buffini, William Guerrieri
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The Linea de Confine movement in Emilie Romagne (northern Italy), both conceptual and empirical in its relationship with the territory, follows the lineage of Italian photography of the 1970s – […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Alban Kakulya, Yann Mingard | Artists: Alban Kakulya, Yann Mingard
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract From the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea stretches a strip of land more or less six hundred kilometres wide, inhabited by more than sixty million people belonging to seven […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2003] by Jacques Doyon Territory is one of the bases of identity. We are made of the places where we grow up and the communities into which we integrate ourselves, whether they are local or national, professional, personal, or linked to daily life. Each dimension of our pluralistic identities is materialized in concrete spaces, […]
[Winter 2003-2004]
Portfolios : YANN MINGRAD, ALBAN KAKULYA, LINEA DI CONFINE, SCOTT WALDEN, KAREN LOVE.
Reviews: Nan Goldin, The Big Picture: Recent Acquisition from the Collection of Alison & Alan Schwartz.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Yann Mingard, Alban Kakulya, Michèle Cohen Hadria, Scott Walden, Karen Love, Colette Tougas, Christopher Brayshaw.
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Patrick Altman, Vid Ingelevics
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Gallery 44, Toronto du 6 février au 8 mars 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Viviane Paradis | Artists: Doyon-Rivest
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU, Québec du 2 mai au 1er juin 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Geneviève Cadieux
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie René Blouin du 26 mars au 3 mai 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Edward Burtynsky
[Summer 2003] National Gallery of Canada 31 January–4 May 2003 The photograph – the colour photograph in particular – seems to have taken on gigantic proportions. Monumental images are a consequence of technological advances, but, more importantly, the shifting proportions are born from the work’s relationship to its place of reception: the gallery. Scale provokes […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Bruce Mau Design, Francis Summers
[Summer 2003] March 13–April 21, 2003 Anyone looking for photographs at the fifth international Foto Biënnale Rotterdam (FBR), titled Experience, would have left the two main exhibition sites in a hurry. Photo aficionados would have had better luck at the many participating galleries and museums throughout the city that opted for more traditional exhibitions. Few […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Emmanuel Hermange | Artists: Stéphane Couturier
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Stéphane Couturier’s Villes génériques series is a continuation of the photographic work on urban sites under construction that he has been producing for a number of years. This archaeology of […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Jordan Strom | Artists: Arni Haraldsson
[Summer 2003] In parallel to his continuing dozen-year-long project, which addresses the livedness, context, and peculiarities of space in modernist architecture, Haraldsson’s recent photographic works focus on other grounds inherent to modernism, built space, and our relationships to them. In these recent parallel projects – the photographs of Jerusalem’s cityscapes and the Via Dolorosa, the […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Portfolios
Authors: André Lamarre | Artists: Marik Boudreau
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With Miradors, which bears the subtitle Essai photographique sur l’érosion (Photographic essay on erosion), Marik Boudreau has produced a synthesis of her work on abandoned sites and urban ruins. An […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2003] by Jacques Doyon In this issue, we delve into modern and vernacular architecture in countries, regions, and cities on the margins of the industrialized West. Architecture, the landscape, and the city are captured in a distanced way. No ethnographic inquiry, no deep documentary research, few interior photographs; instead, the emphasis is on façades […]
[Summer 2003]
Portfolios : MARIK BOUDREAU, ARNI HARALDSON, STÉPHANE COUTURIER.
Reviews: Foto Biënnale Rotterdam, Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes, Geneviève Cadieux – Barcelone, Doyon-Rivest, Vos experts en gestion des utopies 2, Patrick Altman and Vid Ingelevics.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, André Lamarre, Jordan Strom, Emmanuel Hermange, Petra Halkes, Johanna Mizgala, Colette Tougas, Viviane Paradis.
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Interviews
Authors: Hubertus von Amelunxen | Artists: Alain Paiement
[Spring 2003] tangent e – Alain Paiement is the first exhibition of a series, curated by Hubertus von Amelunxen, Senior Visiting Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, that aims to establish a dialogue with the photography collection of the CCA by the creation of new works. From a selection of some two hundred photographs […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Art Gallery of York University, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art et The Koffler Gallery, Toronto 12 mai au 30 juin 2002 Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal 12 septembre au […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Simon Blais du 4 septembre au 5 octobre 2002
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Ken Lum
[Spring 2003] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography 21 September 2002 – 12 January 2003 Ken Lum Works With Photography. The title of a retrospective exhibition of Lum’s photographic works at the CMCP in Ottawa this fall mimics the way Lum uses text and aptly describes his practice. Lum works with photography. Rather than exploring the […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Danielle Schwartz | Artists: Melvin Charney
[Spring 2003] Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal February 22 to April 28, 2002 Even in his earliest photographs, which he shot as a teen – portraits of alleyways, façades, and streets – Melvin Charney, the Montreal-based architect-painter-photographer-intellectual, was examining the relationship between local and international vernacular architecture and daily life. As this show reveals, the […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION
Authors: Brian Massumi | Artists: Luc Courchesne
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The panoramic photography of Luc Courchesne introduces, within the conventions of traditional panoramic painting, formal and technical variations that significantly alter the aesthetic basis of the genre and require a […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With Parages, Alain Paiement continues his research on the modes of apprehension and representation of space in his main fields of interest, dealing with photography, architecture, cartography, and painting. Here, […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION
Authors: André Clément | Artists: Jean-Philippe Lemay
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract After linking the genesis of the artist Jean-Philippe Lemay’s work to his own personal experience with early mechanisms for capturing light, André Clément analyzes the paradoxical nature of Lemay’s photographs, […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2003] by Jacques Doyon The artworks presented in this issue make manifest the constraints intrinsic to the tools of vision. They inscribe in the image itself traces of the prostheses, framings, and postures inherent to the photographic act, and in opposition to the referential consensus they offer an exploration of the conditions of the […]
[Spring 2003]
Portfolios : JEAN-PHILIPPE LEMAY, ALAIN PAIEMENT, LUC COURCHESNE.
Reviews : Melvin Charney, Ken Lum, Bertrand Carrière, Au regard du paysage (I et II)
Voices : Alain Paiement
Authors : Jacques Doyon, André Clément, Mona Hakim, Brian Massumi, Danielle Schwartz, Petra Halkes, Sylvain Campeau, Suzanne Paquet, Hubertus von Amelunxen
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Patrick Coutu
[Fall 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 6 juin au 13 octobre 2002
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: David Goldblatt
[Fall 2002] Kassel June 8 to September 15, 2002 A colour photo by South African photographer David Goldblatt, from a series titled Jo’Burg Intersections (1999–2002), shows high-rises of Johannesburg towering over an enormous garbage dump. Almost imperceptibly, two human shelters merge with the trash. Light fixtures and billboards in the middle ground indicate a sunken […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Robert Frank
[Fall 2002] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography June 22–September 12, 2002 Organized by the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, in cooperation with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. One of the greatest pleasures of this exhibition was to see Robert Frank’s photoworks in the context of his moving images and to experience […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Essays
Authors: Anne Bénichou | Artists: Angela Grauerholz, Melvin Charney
[Fall 2002] 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 1960s, a number of Western art practices have revived the æsthetic of the photographic archive as it was developed in the nineteenth century. Starting from the work of […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES
Authors: Louise Déry | Artists: Patrick Altman
[Fall 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Using abundant photographic documentation from various collections, Patrick Altman’s personal museum highlights the inventorying and classification systems used by museum collections. He allows generous contact with hundreds of photographs, which […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Catherine Poncin
[Fall 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Manifesting her propensity for memory, Catherine Poncin takes no photographs; instead, she draws from a corpus of urban and community archives to gather significant, often unperceived “layers.” In Bobigny, a […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES
Authors: Elizabeth Legge | Artists: Vid Ingelevics
[Fall 2002] Between art and Art deals with the peculiar aspects of the work of museum photographers, whose large-format photographs of works of art, exhibition installations, and other details of the museum’s operations and its architecture are neither purely technical documentation nor art photography. Ingelevics capitalizes on the dense detail of this photography, which often […]
[Fall 2002]
Portfolios : VID INGELEVICS, CATHERINE PONCIN, PATRICK ALTMAN.
Focus : Renouer avec l’esthétique de l’archive photographique.
Reviews: Robert Frank, Documenta 11, Patrick Coutu – Œuvres spatiales.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Elizabeth Legge, Michèle Cohen Hadria, Louise Déry, Anne Bénichou, Judith Parker, Petra Halkes, Sylvain Campeau.
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2002] by Jacques Doyon This issue features the works of contemporary artists whose work involves the photographic archive. Because of its documentary aspect, photography was put to use in archives early and became an important component. In fact, it was this aspect that long kept photography from being recognized by the art world. Paradoxically, […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Book Reviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Mireille Loup, Raymonde April
[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Marc Trivier, Le paradis perdu Yves Gevaert éditeur et le Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Bruxelles, 2001, 192 p. Raymonde April, L’eau renversée avec Patrick Coutu, Charles Guilbert, Serge Murphy, […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Book Reviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions du Regard, Paris, 2002, 200 p., 100 illustrations
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Book Reviews
Authors: Cheryl Simon
[Summer 2002] Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001, 241 p. Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums is a remarkable book. Distinguished not only by its range and depth, but by the passionate commitment of its researcher, the publication concludes a ten-year investigation into the oral dimensions of amateur photography. Primarily concerned with […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anite de Carvalho | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard
[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dans le cadre de l’exposition La vie en temps réel. Mode ralenti. Espace Vox, du 22 mars au 26 mai 2002.
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Lynne Cohen
[Summer 2002] National Gallery of Canada February 1 to May 12, 2002 No Man’s Land: The Photographs of Lynne Cohen, was organized by the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne. It was shown at the National Gallery of Canada, from February 1 to May 12, 2002, and is now […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Lyne Crevier | Artists: Olivier Christinat
[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 Olivier Christinat’s spare mises en scène form the canvas for portraits or nudes of young women in a sort of intimate encounter between artist and model that seems to overstep […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Marisa Portolese
[Summer 2002] Self-possessed women of all shapes, sizes, and ages, each fills the frame with intense looks, confidence, sex appeal, and power as she looks head-on into the camera’s lens and past, to the viewer. Compellingly seductive, these subjects pose for themselves and for the camera with a confronting gaze that is just as powerful. […]
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 […]
[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.
[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.
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 […]
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
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.)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.)
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)
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
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.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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.
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.)
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
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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.
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)
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 […]
[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 […]
Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES
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 […]
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. […]
Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES
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 […]
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, […]
[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
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 […]
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.
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
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
Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS
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 […]
Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
[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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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