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From Charcoal to Aerosol. Street Art in Montreal


Artists: Robert Walker

January 19, 2022 — Robert Walker explores various manifestations of street art in the neighborhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve where he lives. A colorful project in which graffiti and murals compete with superheros and other comic book characters to attest of a vibrant popular culture.

Robert Walker

Gabor, by Joannie Lafrenière


Authors: Michel Hardy-Vallée

[7 décembre 2021 — Exclusive Web Content] By Michel Hardy-Vallée. Surely, photographer Gabor Szilasi needs no introduction! He has worked in every genre, in addition to teaching and being involved in the community. He has made a huge and warm mark, and his images still have the power to move us…

now & beyond


April 7, 2021 — Mourning the untimely loss of a dear friend and art writer, James D. Campbell, photographer Ewa Monika Zebrowski has created a narrative that considers the impermanence of life, as reflected in images of a Mediterranean island.

Adam Basanta – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Adam Basanta

November 26, 2019 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Adam Basanta

Developing Historical Negatives — Robert Anderson

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Robert Anderson | Artists: Deanna Bowen, Hajra Waheed, Jacqueline Hóang Nguyễn, Krista Belle Stewart, Morris Lum

September 30, 2019 — In Developing Historical Negatives, OCAD University professor Gabrielle Moser (Photography and Belonging in the British Empire, Penn State UP, 2019) commissions artists who explore the ‘racialized body.’ …

Deanna Bowen, Hajra Waheed, Jacqueline Hóang Nguyễn, Krista Belle Stewart, Morris Lum

Martin Désilets, Matière noire / L’index – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Martin Désilets

April 3, 2019 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Martin Désilets

Linda Rutenberg, The Garden at Night | The Untamed Garden – Christian Roy

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Linda Rutenberg

November 16, 2018 — Does the floral motif, so frequent throughout the history of art, still have a place in contemporary art? As a matter of fact, it did recur in a couple of Montreal exhibitions of the spring and summer of 2018. If one of these gathered artists in several mediums under this theme, this motif will be dealt with here by dwelling on two other ones, that afforded the local public an overview of the body of floral work that secured photographer Linda Rutenberg’s international reputation…

Linda Rutenberg

Dak’Art 2018. Focus sur la photographie – Érika Nimis

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Alun Be, Anastasie Langu, Babacar Traoré (Doli), Benjamin Bayienda, Émilie Régnier, Franck Fanny, Ishola Akpo, Laeïla Adjovi, Loïc Hoquet, Oumar Ka, Pierre-Christophe Gam

October 19, 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Alun Be, Anastasie Langu, Babacar Traoré (Doli), Benjamin Bayienda, Émilie Régnier, Franck Fanny, Ishola Akpo, Laeïla Adjovi, Loïc Hoquet, Oumar Ka, Pierre-Christophe Gam

Jacynthe Carrier, Paysage : Faire le jour – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier

September 10, 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jacynthe Carrier

Myriam Yates, Gander Islands – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Myriam Yates

15 mai 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Myriam Yates

Jean-François LeBlanc. Revisiting Montreal’s Backstage at the End of a Century – Tema Stauffer

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Tema Stauffer | Artists: Jean-François Leblanc

March 1, 2017 — A retrospective of ninety-five black-and-white photographs by Jean-François LeBlanc was recently exhibited at Maison de la culture Côtes-des-Neiges, presenting a look back at a fertile decade of life in Montreal beginning in the mid-1980s…

Jean-François Leblanc

Reactions to the Article on the Exhibition The Rebel Yells…

Essays

January 20, 2016 — We received two long letters to the editor, by Hannah Claus and by Lori Beavis, written in reaction to Bénédicte Ramade’s essay on the exhibition The Rebel Yells: Dress and Political Re-dress in Contemporary Indigenous Art, published in issue 101 of the magazine (autumn 2015).

Reading Ciel variable: The Magazine as Site of Photographic History – Zoë Tousignant

Essays
Authors: Zoë Tousignant

November 26, 2015 — I have been reading Ciel variable since 1996. A while ago, its editor-in-chief, Jacques Doyon, asked me to write an essay, destined for the Archives section of the magazine’s website, that would demonstrate “the importance of the magazine as a medium and space of exploration for photography.” And so, over the past few weeks, I have been re-reading…

Some views, some perspectives – Suzanne Paquet

Essays
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Fred Herzog, Greg Girard, Isabelle Hayeur, Jessica Auer

October 22, 2015 [originally published on May 31, 2010] — “Landscape” photography – that which depicts the territory, the environment, places – is no doubt one of the most widely practised photographic genres, by various categories of picture takers: topographers, explorers, artists, tourists, and amateur photographers.

Fred Herzog, Greg Girard, Isabelle Hayeur, Jessica Auer

Form: Experimentation and Transformation – Sylvain Campeau

Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Paiement, Bertrand Carrière, Bill Vazan, Isabelle Hayeur, Luc Courchesne, Nicolas Baier, Raymonde April

October 15, 2015 [originally published on March 31, 2010] — Looking back over twenty years and trying to retrace the path of experiments with images, we start in the early 1990s, when a couple of newcomers, Alain Paiement and Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, were already starting to turn heads. In an essay published in 1992, Denis Lessard tried to show what these artists owed to the heritage of Pierre Boogaerts, Bill Vazan, and Serge Tousignant.1 He also mentioned the work, then new, of Raymonde April, Lucie Lefebvre, and Denis Farley. This effort at historical perspective was out of place at the time, when the lion’s share of attention in the critical environment was being paid to the rebirth of installation art and the manner in which photography and, soon, the photographic would be inserted into it.

Alain Paiement, Bertrand Carrière, Bill Vazan, Isabelle Hayeur, Luc Courchesne, Nicolas Baier, Raymonde April

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