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)
[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 | 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 […]
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
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) | 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) | 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) | 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.
