Are you looking for interviews or an artist’s portfolios? Would you like to reread an exhibition or book review? In this section, you can access the content of archived Ciel variable issues by exploring different types of articles published in the magazine.
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Clément
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence du 16 mai au 18 juin 2000
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Graham | Artists: Alain Chagnon
[Summer 2000] by Robert Graham In June of 1998, fifty-year-old Quebec photographer Alain Chagnon undertook a journey. As a man and as a photographer, he was propelled in flight from the “here” of home in search of what must be found away and somewhere else. From this particular corner of the continent, he set out […]
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Xavier Ribas | Artists: Xavier Ribas
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Our leisure activities are less and less distinguishable from models of productivity. Organized leisure has tentacles. It is probably to escape this logic that people meet spontaneously in less domesticated […]
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Robin Laurence | Artists: Wanda Koop
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Best known as a painter, Wanda Koop is also a gifted videographer who produces scrolls of video stills as well as large-scale installations combining video projections and painting. Many of […]
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Essays
Authors: Olivier Asselin | Artists: Eugène Atget
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Asselin recalls the various modem figures of the walker and the modalities of their aesthetic contemplation. The photographer bears a resemblance to the Baudelairean figure of the flâneur, torn between […]
[Summer 2000]
Portfolios : WANDA KOOP, XAVIER RIBAS, ALAIN CHAGNON.
Focus : Une esthétique de chiffonnier (le photographe itinérant).
Reviews : Serge Clément – Persona, André Martin – Mes modèles. Autoportraits, Dominique Baqué – La photographie plasticienne. Un art paradoxal, Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Olivier Asselin, Robin Laurence, Xavier Ribas, Robert Graham, Mona Hakim, Sylvain Campeau, Christine Desrochers, Martha Langford.
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
by Jacques Doyon Travel is an inherent aspect of contemporary civilization. Whatever the distance, we have to see other places. We are all tourists, in one way or another, always foreigners to someone or some society, which we observe with mixed feelings of curiosity, empathy, rejection, or fear. The image has become the heart of […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers, Edmond Couchot
[Spring 2000] This text was originally published in French. No translation is available. Edmond Couchot, Nîmes, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon coll. Rayon Photo, 1998, 271 pages.
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Sylvie Readman
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Optica, Montréal du 29 octobre au 4 décembre 1999
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2000] by Gary Michael Dault Power Plant, Toronto from December 11, 1999, to February 20, 2000. Given the scope and ambition of the two photo-works that Angela Grauerholz presented recently at Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (which extend the inventiveness of her photo-installations for Documenta IX and the 1995 Carnegie International), it is […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Guy Lafontaine
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Since 1995, Guy Lafontaine has been working on a series of photographs examining transitional zones on the border of residential and industrial districts, mainly in neighbourhoods on the outskirts of […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Nicole Jolicoeur | Artists: Nicole Jolicoeur
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Geoffrey James
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The Lethbridge Project looks at both the city and nature, and at their transformations. Geoffrey James evokes the way in which landscape, whether in the heart of the city or […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Essays
Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Jeffrey Thomas
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Summary A double artistic meaning is superimposed on the notion of landscape: invented images and real cultural territories. Adopting horizontality as a visual point of reference, Civilisation by Quebecer Ivan Binet and Cold City Frieze by Iroquois Jeffrey Thomas wander nomadically […]
[Spring 2000]
Portfolios : GEOFFREY JAMES, NICOLE JOLICOEUR, GUY LAFONTAINE.
Focus : Une esthétique de chiffonnier (le photographe itinérant).
Reviews : Angela Grauerholz – Sententia I-LXII and Schriftbilder, Sylvie Readman – Convergences élémentaires, Edmond Couchot – La technologie dans l’art.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Guy Siou Durand, Nicole Jolicoeur, Suzie Larivée, Gary Michael Dault, Mona Hakim, Christine Desrochers.
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2000] by Jacques Doyon The city, a constant subject of photography, distills all of the issues of society. It is both centre and periphery, a nucleus made of contradictory and hierarchical strata shooting out roots to invade an ever-broader territory. In this issue, we find images that are concerned not so much with the […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertien Van Manen, Pelle Kronestedt
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction de Pierre Blache, Marie-Josée Jean et Anne-Marie Ninacs, publié par Vox, centre de la diffusion de la photographie et Les 400 coups, Montréal, 1999, 233 pages.
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Émile Verdier | Artists: Johanne Gagnon
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Fonds culinaire is a photographic stock-taking of the physical congestion caused by kitchen objects. Since 1990, Johanne Gagnon has been working on creating a legitimate description of a kitchen from […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Bertrand Carrière, Michel Campeau | Artists: Robert Pelletier
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Intriguing, Wordless Stories from a Strange Reliquary The multi-paneled, serial works in Curiosité – Le Chercheur de trésor were the last made by Robert Pelleter before his death. They were […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Robert ParkeHarrison
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Paradoxical: This is how Sylvain Campeau defines the works of Robert ParkeHarrison. It is a paradox of a Resurrection that cannot help but take part in the Apocalypse; the paradox […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Essays
Authors: Peter Dubé
[Winter 1999-2000] by Peter Dubé One I clear my mind to walk into an empty room; a triumph of austerity. Carefully hung photographs line the shiny walls. Each frame is carefully positioned in relation to its neighbour, gracefully distanced. The glass atop the paper does not disrupt. Landscapes in soft, though oddly brilliant, colours. A […]
[Winter 1999-2000]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1999-2000] by Franck Michel All objects are both bases for relations and communications, signposts for our dreams, admitted or secret, and tools that we use to assimilate the world.1 — Serge Tisseron We have not often dealt with objects in these pages. Following a suggestion by Jennifer Couëlle, we decided that it was high […]
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement, Carol Dallaire, Loren Williams, Lucie Lefebvre, Nathalie Caron
[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: Ariane Thézé, Donigan Cumming, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Sylvie Readman
[Fall 1999] by Martha Langford Last time (the first time), millennial anxiety was deferred by a strategic announcement from the church fathers: the population’s fears of the apocalypse were premature, for the year to worry about was not 1000, but 1033. Logical enough, and pretty clever, for by then one could expect the people to […]
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Élène Tremblay
[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1999] by Franck Michel To mark Mois de la Photo à Montréal and the end of the millennium, issue 48 of CVphoto takes stock of Quebec photography in the nineties.Texts by Martha Langford and Mona Hakim and an interview with Élène Tremblay by Jennifer Couëlle sketch a portrait of a decade that was particularly […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers | Artists: Ghenadi Gatev
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Observatoire 4 10 avril au 8 mai 1999
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Portfolios
Authors: Serge Tisseron | Artists: Bernard Plossu
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary As we all know, the family is in crisis. Like a company that is running out of steam, it needs images to exalt its specificity. It is indisputable that affection […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Laura Letinsky
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The author examines the expression and the modalities of communicating affection in a selection of Laura Letinsky’s works in which the complexity of the love relationships between men and women […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Carl Bouchard
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Carl Bouchard’s self-portraits are fictitious, emotional mises en scène, in which the laying bare of the body corresponds to the laying bare of feelings. Bouchard is a multi-disciplinary artist, and […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Essays
Authors: Sylvie Laliberté
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
[Summer 1999]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Editorial
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle
[Summer 1999] by Jennifer Couëlle It serves sometimes friendship, sometimes love. It is synonymous with both tenderness and desire. It conveys kindness and can lead to passion, but also subsists in simple pleasure. For affection, above all, means interest: in a person, a place, a climate, a phenomenon, and – why not? – an object. […]
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers | Artists: Man Ray
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction d’Emmanuelle de l’Écotais et Alain Sayag, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou/Seuil, avril 1998, 260 pages.
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction de France Choinière et Yves O’Reilly, Oxford, Dazibao, les essais. 1998.
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Clara Gutsche
[Printemps 1999] 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 de Joliette Du 18 octobre 1998 au 10 janvier 1999
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Andrea Szilasi
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Circa Du 9 janvier au 13 février 1999
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Portfolios
Authors: Leo Kandl | Artists: Josef Wais
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Portfolios
Authors: Dot Tuer | Artists: Jeff Wall
[Spring 1999] In Jeff Wall’s photographs, there is an attraction and deflection – a push and pull of ideological thrusts and formal repartées – that entraps the viewer. Standing in front of a large-scale back-lit Cibachrome, one is caught in the middle of an exquisitely choreographed duel between painting and photography. by Dot Tuer In […]
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Portfolios
Authors: Élisabeth Recurt | Artists: Denis Farley
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Spring 1999] by Franck Michel In 1997, Jean Beaudry began to shoot a documentary on Quebec photography.1 Featuring an introduction that traces the history of photography in Quebec, interviews with people active in the photography milieu, and exhibition scenes, the film, L’objectif subjectif, follows three Montreal photographers – Raymonde April, Pierre Guimond, and Gilbert Duclos […]
Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Lynne Marsh, Sandra Haar
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. La Centrale, Montréal Du 3 octobre au 8 novembre 1998
Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Joachim Mogarra, Lucy Gunning, Sally Mann
[Winter 1998-1999] 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 la 1ère Biennale de Montréal Du 27 août au 18 octobre 1998
Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA)
Authors: Denis Lessard | Artists: Clara Gutsche
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Denis Lessard introduces his essay by defining what motivated Clara Gutsche to explore the world of cloistered nuns, its characteristic culture of welcoming, and the myths that surround it. Lessard […]
Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Portfolios
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Yan Giguère
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary It has never been the aim of art photography to provide simple testimony to the unfurling of daily life – at least, not of its substance, its insipid ordinariness. The […]
Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Leo Divendal
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary As a photographer, Leo Divendal is known for his recapturing of archival images, without added legend. In the series presented here, he accumulates portraits, park scenes, children’s games – all […]
Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Essays
Authors: Jean-Pierre Latour
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
[WINTER 1998-1999]
Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1998-1999] by Franck Michel The second edition of the Salon Paris-Photo recently took place in France. Presented at the same time as the Mois de la Photo à Paris, this event involved more than eighty exhibitions from all over the world, especially Europe and North America. Most of them were oriented toward sales and […]
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Fall 1998] This text was originally published in French.You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Oxford, Éditions Oxford University Press, Collection History of Art, 1997, 247 pages.
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Ides & Calendes, Collection Polychrome, 1997, 93 pages.
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Charles Gagnon
[Fall 1998] 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 mai au 27 septembre 1998
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Exhibition reviews
[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Barcelone, Espagne
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Duane Michals
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available Summary We think of him when we think of photographic mise en scène – and of narrative sequences, and of the integration of handwriting into photographs. When Duane Michals made his first photographic fictions in the mid-sixties, the practice was not entirely without […]
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Francine Dagenais | Artists: Andrea Szilasi
This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Andrea Szilasi finds her inspiration in science magazines and anatomy books. But however fascinated she may be with the inner workings of the human body, how it is quantified or depicted, hers […]
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Holly King
[Fall 1998] by Gary Michael Dault Every photograph is constructed. In the usual order of events, however, a photograph is “constructed” first perceptually, then chemically or is otherwise processed in the tiny silicon bath of the computer and, finally, as an artefact. Holly King’s photographs represent an amplification and a reversal of this order of […]
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Essays
Authors: Régine Robin
[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary This article discusses the new developments in autobiography, the featuring of the self in literature and photography, in a hybrid genre that Serge Doubrovsky has called “self-fiction.” The examples used […]
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1998] by Franck Michel As we all know, photography now plays a preponderant role on the contemporary-art scene. The autumn cultural season in Quebec provides ample proof of this with a particularly rich programme of photographic exhibitions. To begin with, there is the first Biennale de Montréal, organized by the Centre international d’art contemporain, […]
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Millon, Collection Krisis, 1996, 187 pages. 39.00$
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions Taschen, Allemagne, 1996, Avant-propos de Mark Scheps, 760 pages. 39.95$
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anne-Marie Garceau | Artists: Andy Goldsworthy
[Summer 1998] 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 8 avril au 7 juin 1998
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: David Rasmus
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox, Montréal Du 19 mars au 19 avril 1998
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Mark Ruwedel | Artists: Mark Ruwedel
[Summer 1998] by Mark Ruwedel Once, from eastern ocean to western ocean, the land stretched away without names. Nameless headlands split the surf; nameless lakes reflected nameless mountains; and nameless rivers flowed through nameless valleys into nameless bays. — George R. Stewart, Names on the Land1 Devil’s Garden. The Devil’s Playground. The Devil’s Corral. Devil’s […]
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Robin Metcalfe | Artists: Marlene Creates
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. by Robin Metcalfe The photography-based art of Marlene Creates has long dealt with the relationship between marking and landscape. Her photographs function as a means of documenting that relationship and posing […]
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Eileen Leir
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Eileen Leier’s Sur la piste de la ruée vers l’or (On the gold-rush route) is a evidentiary installation that deals with the presence of remains and of photography in various […]
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Essays
Authors: Éric Devlin
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
[Summer 1998]
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Summer 1998] by Franck Michel During a recent trip abroad, I had an opportunity to meet with a number of photography specialists, including publishers from various countries. These meetings enabled me to take stock of the state of contemporary-photography magazines throughout the world. The situation is not wonderful. Over the last two years, many of […]
[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, l’Harmattan, coll. «Champs visuels», 1996, 269 pages.
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Raymonde April
[Spring 1998] 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 de Joliette 21 septembre 1997 – 4 janvier 1998
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Emmanuel Galland
[Spring 1998] 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 17 octobre 1997 – 4 janvier 1998
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Daniel Béland
[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Du 3 octobre 1997 au 31 mai 1998 Événement organisé par le centre VU, Québec
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Portfolios
Artists: Petra Mueller
[Spring 1998] Petra Mueller lives and works in Montreal. In 1992, she earned a master’s degree in fine arts from Concordia University, and she is currently teaching in a course on media and technology in Concordia’s communications department. Her work has been exhibited in Montreal and throughout Canada over the last number of years, and […]
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Portfolios
Artists: Nathalie Caron
[Spring 1998] Nathalie Caron was born in Montreal. A multidisciplinary artist, she is a poet, photographer, and actor. Her work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, art centres, and museums in Quebec and Europe. Among her most recent exhibitions are Les Personnes, produced in collaboration with video artist Charles Guilbert and presented in […]
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Portfolios
Artists: Gerald Van Der Kaap
[Spring 1998] KaapEngine (Prototype), ca. 1996 http://www.stedelijk.nl/capricorn/øøkaap/start.html Gerald Van Der Kaap lives and works in the Netherlands. His works have appeared in many museums, galleries, and contemporary art biennales throughout the world, and been widely published. He is currently working on transforming a new waste incinerator near the town of Enschede, the Netherlands, into a […]
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Essays
Authors: Anne Cauquelin
[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
[Spring 1998]
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Spring 1998] by Franck Michel The Internet, that network of networks, is now a part of daily life for many of us; we surf the ’Net looking for things or just for entertainment. For artists, this communications tool comprises a new area of exploration with immense potential. Some use it as the main support for […]
Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin
[Winter 1997-1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Hazan, coll. «Lumières», 1997, 198 pages 4” x 6”, 128 reproductions photographiques, 19,95$ traduit de l’anglais par Dominique Lablanche
Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle
[Winter 1997-1998] Centre des arts Saidye Bronfman, Montréal Du 11 septembre au 26 octobre 1997 Nobuyoshi Araki, Krass Clement, Donigan Cumming, Hans Danuser, Sue Fox, Leslie Hakim-Dowek, Louis Jammes, Maxime Jourdan, Rudolf Schäfer, Bastienne Schmidt, Andres Serrano, Clare Strand, Annet van der Voort, Nick Waplington, Belinda Whiting, Neil Winokur, Thomas Wrede, Franco Zecchin et Xavier […]
[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. septembre 1997
Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Portfolios
Authors: Céline Mayrand | Artists: Eugénie Shinkle
[Winter 1997-1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary With her exacerbated sensitivity and exposed emotions, Eugénie Schinkle draws us into the whirlpool of her febrile energy. She leads us to think of the photographic act as a form […]
Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Portfolios
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie
[Winter 1997-1998] by Gary Michael Dault She wanders the streets of twilight cities, Jocelyne Alloucherie tells me, Montreal and her native Quebec City, yes, and also the early-evening cities of Europe. She wanders, flâneuse, with a camera, exploring, as the cities turn haptic in the diminishing light and thickening darkness, the absorbing demineralization of a […]
Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Georges Rousse
[Winter 1997-1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Essays
Authors: Francine Dagenais
[Winter 1997-1998] by Francine Dagenais Authenticity as it relates to representation has always been associated with the concept of essence circumscribed, at least in part, by its opposite, non-essence. We have established, quite logically, marked differentiations between essence, purity, truth, and uniqueness, on the one hand, and fusion, hybridity, compromise, and multiplicity, on the other. […]
[Winter 1998] EDITORIAL FOCUS PORTFOLIOS EXHIBITIONS READINGS
Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1997-1998] by Franck Michel As I was writing this editorial, I learned that Claude Thibeault, curator of the photography collection at the Musée du Québec, has lost his job. Four years ago, the Musée du Québec set up a collection dedicated exclusively to photography and appointed Mr. Thibeault to run it, showing its desire […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Jean-Luc Moulène
[Fall 1997] Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris April 25–June 22, 1997 “The historian, like the camera, always lies.” In discussing history’s inevitable inaccuracies, historian Norman Davies recalls how the impossible task of the historian has been likened to that of the photographer. The former must collate as many sources as possible in […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire | Artists: John Max
[Fall 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox, du 20 mars au 20 avril 1997
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin
[Fall 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michael Ondaatje, Coming through Slaughter, Toronto, Anansi, 1976, 156 p. Peter Galassi & Sherry Turner DeCarava, Roy DeCarava : A retrospective, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1996, 280 p. Milt […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Loren Williams
[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Born in Creston, British Columbia, Loren Williams studied photography at David Thompson University, B.C., and at Concordia University, Montreal. For several years, her work has been closely tied the “found objects” that she collects and arranges according to a personal taxonomic system. In this context, she is interested in the […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Mia Weinberg
[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Mia Weinberg has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, where she lives. Her artistic practice revolves around three axes: the notion of cultural displacement (diaspora), links between generations, and the influence of identity. In Fractured Legacy, she examines the […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Xuân-Huy Nguyen
[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A Montrealer of Vietnamese origin, Xuân-Huy Nguyen earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (photography major) from Concordia University. With Compositions, Nguyen casts a critical eye on Quebec photography, which he feels is distant and bland. Appropriating images made by well-known photographers, he plays with irony and irreverence to shake […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Janita Eyre
[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Janieta Eyre studied photography at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, and has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto. She lives and works in Toronto. Her work mixes fiction, history, culture, and memory in symbolically charged portraits. Reality loses its footing in these disturbing scenes, in […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Ethan Eisenberg
[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Ethan Eisenberg has a master’s degree in fine arts (photography) from Concordia University, Montreal. He currently lives in Toronto, where he has been a freelance photographer since 1993. For the last three years, he has been involved in a documentary photography project in the heart of the occupied territory of […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Allan Edgar
[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A native British Columbian, Allan Edgar has a fine-arts degree from Camosun Visual Arts College in Victoria and currently works and lives in Montreal. He works directly on large-format black-and-white negatives and on his final proofs, using, among other things, selective toning, varnishes, and abrasives. The result is very large […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Charles Bergeron
[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A native of La Tuque, Quebec, Charles Bergeron studied visual arts at Université Laval, Quebec City, and Université du Québec à Montréal. He currently lives in Montreal. Trained mainly in sculpture and installation, he only recently discovered the possibilities offered by photography. His photographic “centrings” (his term) are used for […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Dolores Baswick
[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Dolores Baswick has been working as a commercial photographer for almost twenty years. She studied at Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, in Oakville, Ontario, from 1976 to 1978, which enabled her to find work in corporate and advertising photography. In 1991, she registered at the Emily Carr College […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Sara Angelucci
[Fall 1997] Sara Angelucci was born in Guelph, Ontario, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts; she is currently studying for a master’s degree in visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. For the past several years, her multimedia works, which include photography, have explored the notion of […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Essays
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle
[Fall 1997] by Jennifer Couëlle An exhibition whose objective is to present the work of young and not so young, but above all relatively unknown artists raises expectations – if not particularly with regard to specifics of the works presented, then certainly with regard to what we could call trends. It is an exercise not […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1997] by Franck Michel Since its inception, CVphoto has favoured new currents in its choice of both artists and writers. In fact, we feel that a magazine dedicated to contemporary photography should provide some recognition to young artists and writers. And so, this year, our participation in LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO À MONTRÉAL […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Sally Mann
[Summer 1997] 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 6 mars au 1er juin 1997
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Benoit Aquin
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, centre d’art et d’essai contemporains
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Richard Baillargeon
[Summer 1997] Dazibao, Montreal, January 16–February 23 Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, January 23–February 23 While images, whether photographic or other, necessarily give us something to look at, only some remind us that we are looking. And in the case of photography, with its inherent potential for the voyeuristic “gaze,” the sense of sight […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Book Reviews
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Bill Vazan
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Bill Vazan et John K. Grande Peterborough, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1996
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Book Reviews
Authors: Marcel Blouin | Artists: Adàl
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, 1997, 255 pages.
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Jocelyne Lupien | Artists: Alain Laframboise
[Summer 1997] Alain Laframboise’s photographic stillevens are imbued with the specific rhetoric of the hyper-codified genre that is still-life: the deliberate placement of inanimate and enigmatic objects; directional, dramatic, theatrical illumination (chiaroscuro); flat, shallow background against which the objects are projected; striking trompe-l’œil effect (which photography does well); hidden symbolic content that invites reflection on […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Juliet Hotbridge | Artists: P. M. Hoblargan
[Été 1997] The true, the false, the original, the copy, the authentic, the forgery; to distinguish them, evaluate them, then universalize the values – a problem that is almost insoluble, calling for responses that are multiple, mobile, and sometimes contradictory, depending on the civilization whose choices and rejections they govern. by Juliet Hotbridge Still confused […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Russell Keziere | Artists: Arnaud Maggs
[Summer 1997] We live in a time when all communication happens under a cloud of erasure. We are conditioned instinctively to call into question vested interests and hidden, undisclosed motives. In this cloud of postmodern skepticism, words and representations are equivocal – until proven innocent. We negate before we can feel safe to affirm. By […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Essays
Authors: Michaël Lachance
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Summer 1997] by Franck Michel This issue of CVphoto is the first in a trilogy devoted to the overarching notion of authenticity. The growing use of digital technologies in the various fields of photography, and the upheavals this has caused, has made this debate particularly timely and essential. In this issue, we will explore more […]
Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Book Reviews
Authors: Marcel Blouin
[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. AFAA, Club d’investissement média, Interactive Fiction, Paris, 1996.
