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Authors: Ciel variable
[April 23, 2020] Even the huge Les Rencontres de la photographie in Arles is in limbo. Is the summer festival to be held, delayed, or cancelled? All scenarios are being reviewed and we are promised an answer before the end of the month. But “Les Rencontres d’Arles at home” is already underway. There’s something for […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Geneviève Cadieux
[April 22,2020] The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal wants to do its part: it has announced that it will devote its entire 2020 acquisition budget, $300,000, to Quebec art. Even better: it wants to double that amount. To reach this goal, the Fondation du MAC is inviting the museum’s major partners, collectors, and the public […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: John Latour
[April 22, 2020] The Toronto online sales platform FFOTO, active since 2015, is rising to prominence in this time of physical distancing, as a certain virus is forcing the closure of galleries and the cancellation of fairs. FFOTO is doing more, however, than purveying an inventory of forty thousand photographs. Since early April, “FFOTO’s Five […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Yasuyoshi Chiba
[April 16, 2020] They say the world will never be the same again. But will gatherings – happy and less happy, carnivals and demonstrations – really disappear? Year after year, the World Press Photo competition takes stock of what brings life and death on the planetary scale. The 2020 edition, the winners of which have […]
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Authors: Ciel variable
[April 14, 2020] Sent to the front to find evidence of the effects of the novel coronavirus, photojournalists were among the workers most exposed to the virus. Physician Jenell Stewart, specialist in infectious diseases and in a couple with a photographer, published a guide for image professionals. The list of things to do and not […]
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Authors: Ciel variable
[April 1, 2020] COVID-19 makes all cultural programs futile. MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image is nevertheless turned to the future, as “going forward with the next edition is a way of engaging in dialogue and interaction.” MOMENTA is therefore announcing that the 2021 edition will be organized by German curator Stefanie Hessler. The title of […]
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.
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.’ …
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Artworks created as part of the fund-raising campaigns ARTGEIST The Artgeist series proposed collectors to support the magazine by acquiring an original work created specifically for them. Rather than simply acquiring an already existing artwork, our project offered the unique experience of meeting with an artist of their choice in order to discuss their respective […]
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…
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).
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…
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.
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.