Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Taysir Batniji
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Raqs Media Collective
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Maryse Goudreau
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur
November 9, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — This compelling exhibition of the works of Isabelle Hayeur, Thomas Kneubühler, Jean-François Lemire, Valerian Mazataud, and Andreas Rutkauskas was notable for the trenchant criticality of its thematic engagement with sundry social and environmental issues…
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset | Artists: Milo Rau
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Charles Gagnon
September 7, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — The exhibition Camerart, produced by Galerie Optica and presented in Montreal from December 16, 1974, to January 14, 1975, was a pivotal event in the photography/art debate in Quebec…
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Debi Cornwall
August 31, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — By Érika Nimis. Every summer since 2010, Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie has literally pushed art photography into parks and forests and onto beaches, inviting visitors to a true treasure hunt along the legendary Route 132…
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Essays
Authors: Laurie Milner | Artists: Marisa Portolese
August 3, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — By Laurie Milner. Kinship, broadly defined, is a core concept in Montreal artist Marisa Portolese’s photographic practice…
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Bert Danckaert
June 21, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — By James D. Campbell. The photographs of Belgian artist Bert Danckaert have been likened to abstract paintings, but the family resemblance resides more in the facture than in the finished work of art…
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Portfolios
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Jessica Eaton
June 21, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — By Stephen Horne. A number of Montreal artists are proposing ambitious responses to the dissolution of traditional artistic genres in what is clearly a “post-medium world.” Jessica Eaton is one of these, as evidenced by her recent exhibition titled Iterations (I) at Galerie Ertaskiran..
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Portfolios
Authors: Bénédicte Ramade | Artists: Yann Pocreau
June 14, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — By Bénédicte Ramade. In one of his most recent series, Réponses à la peinture, Yann Pocreau establishes an interplay of brightly coloured superimpositions, transparencies, and opacities…
[Winter 2019] From the manipulation of light (through filtering, combination, or diffraction) to work on the supporting medium (film, photographic paper, walls) to searching out pictorial compositions on city streets, a space of exploration opens up for photography around the various manifestations of colour. The result is images that challenge our perceptions. Often, the referent […]
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2019] By Jacques Doyon From the manipulation of light (through decomposition, combination of layers, or diffraction effects) to work on the supporting medium (film, photographic paper, walls) to searching out pictorial compositions on city streets, a space of exploration opens up for photography around the various manifestations of colour. The result is images that […]
[Winter 2019]
From the manipulation of light (through filtering, combination, or diffraction) to work on the supporting medium (film, photographic paper, walls) to searching out pictorial compositions on city streets, a space of exploration opens up for photography around the various manifestations of colour. The result is images that challenge our perceptions. Often, the referent for these works is abstract painting, with its long tradition of experimentation, but the real also bears its share of perceptual ambiguity with regard to the impact of colours.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Interviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon, Louise Déry
May 10, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — An interview by Jacques Doyon. Louise Déry holds a PhD in art history and has been director of the Galerie de l’UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) since 1997; previously, she was director of the Musée régional de Rimouski and curator of contemporary art at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Kristine Potter
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Guillaume Simoneau
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Lucie Rocher
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: René Viau | Artists: Joey Morgan
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Eva Brandl
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Julien St-Georges Tremblay | Artists: Donigan Cumming
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Nathalie Bachand | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Rania Matar
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Andreas Gursky
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: David Goldblatt
[Fall 2018] —This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Michel Campeau
February 22, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — The exhibition Michel Campeau – Life before Digital, a retrospective of Michel Campeau’s approach in the early 1970s, offers a wellrounded view of his ideas on photography, on the figure of the photographer, and on that of the collector who finally took over from the producer of images…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Essays
Authors: Ellen Tolmie
February 16, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — A recent show at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) challenges conventional notions of the lone photographer, the roles of subjects, and even the exhibition space. The idea of the photograph made by an individual, the photographer, now also lionized as artist and auteur, has long been embedded in the essential idea of what photography is…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Essays
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Afterlife
February 9, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — In a remarkable group exhibition at Optica, Raymonde April, one of Canada’s finest living photographers, marshalled the talents of an intrepid group of itinerant fellow travellers – and to radiant effect…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Émilie Serri | Artists: Émilie Serri
February 2, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — In March 2017, I crossed the country by train. On board The Canadian, I travelled a total distance of 8,932 kilometres on a return trip as a way to get moving on writing my master’s thesis…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Mosse
January 26, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — As he had first done in 2011 and 2013 for Infra and The Enclave, Mosse uses a military tracking technology. In those series, it was an infrared film camera capable of detecting human presences in dense foliage…