Denis Farley, Espaces aériens – Daniel Fiset, Photographs Like Clouds

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Authors: Daniel Fiset | Artists: Denis Farley

September 1, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — Espaces aériens marks a turning point in Farley’s aesthetic, developed since the 1980s, of working mainly in documentation of landscape and architecture. In this series, he gradually abandons horizontal composition and aims his lens upward, letting layers of clouds dictate the composition and perturb the unified reading…

Alain Lefort, Eidôlon – Francine Paul, Hunting for Landscapes in the Spring of Glacial Figures

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Authors: Francine Paul | Artists: Alain Lefort

September 8, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — Since 2010, Lefort’s photographic series have evidenced his desire to go to increasingly remote regions alone to photograph natural phenomena; most recently, he has been intrigued by icebergs, huge in both dimensions and appeal…

Jocelyn Philibert, Arbres – Franck Michel, The Depths of the Landscape

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Jocelyn Philibert

September 15, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — For more than ten years, Jocelyn Philibert has been photographing trees at night. This near-obsession was triggered during a summer spent in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, on the bank of the St. Lawrence River. Having just acquired a small digital camera, he decided to go out and explore the vicinity of his cottage, photographing everything around him, after the sun went down…

TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Artists: Alain Lefort, Denis Farley, Jocelyn Philibert

At first glance, the works presented here might seem to be simply about work on a motif. A more attentive look, however, shows that what is indicated here, in this focus on trees, or icebergs, or clouds, is the shaping of natural elements by human action on a landscape that has become an environment. Jocelyn […]

Metonymic Motifs

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Alain Lefort, Denis Farley, Jocelyn Philibert

Each series of images in this issue presents, in a way, work on a motif – a live view of the landscape, in the tradition of landscape painters. Capturing the infinite variations of trees, icebergs, or clouds under different conditions certainly testifies to an interest in nature, but perhaps even more in how it is […]

Ciel variable 106 – TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

  [Spring-Summer 2017] At first glance, the works presented here might seem to be simply about work on a motif. A more attentive look, however, shows that what is indicated here, in this focus on trees, or icebergs, or clouds, is the shaping of natural elements by human action on a landscape that has become […]

Hélène Samson, Exhibiting Notman – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Interviews
Authors: Hélène Samson, Jacques Doyon | Artists: William Notman

March 18, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — Hélène Samson has been the curator of the photography collection at the McCord Museum since 2006. She is interested in collecting vernacular Canadian photographs and updating nineteenth-century photographic archives…

New and Worthy

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Book Reviews

[Winter 2017] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Download this article (Free of charge)

Holly King – Christian Roy

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Holly King

March 25, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Mutations – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard, Isabelle Hayeur, Sébastien Cliche

March 31, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Rencontre Photographique du Kamouraska – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Pierre Dessureault

April 2, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Loin des Yeux – Daniel Fiset

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset

April 7, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Harry Callahan – Ariane Noël De Tilly

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Harry Callahan

April 14, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

The Edge of the Earth – Leo Hsu

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Leo Hsu | Artists: Adrien Missika, Paul Walde

April 16, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video grapples with our changing understanding of the connection between human activity and the destiny of this planet. The title does not begin to suggest the exhibition’s ambitions, which go far beyond surveying work related to climate change…

Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles – Erika Nimis

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Ethan Levitas, William Kentridge, Zanele Muholi

April 21, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Caroline Hayeur et D. Kimm – Jean Gagnon

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: Caroline Hayeur, D. Kimm

April 23, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

ARTGEIST II – FREE FIGURES

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Essays
Artists: Angela Grauerholz, Benoit Aquin, Éliane Excoffier, Marisa Portolese, Pascal Grandmaison

[Winter 2017] Artworks created as part of the find-raising campaign (2015-2016) Ciel variable presents the artworks created and acquired during its second fund-raising campaign, conducted in 2015–16. In the same spirit as Sitegeist, the 2012–13 campaign, Artgeist proposed that collectors support the magazine by acquiring an original work created specifically for them. This project also […]

Ensemble, United Images – Guy Sioui Durand

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Essays
Authors: Guy Sioui Durand

April 28, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — Two forms of orality opened and then closed the exhibition Ensemble at VU in Quebec City in October 2016. At the opening, an Indigenous talking circle, led by Nadia Myre, was performed in the large gallery called Espace américain. At the end of the exhibition was a roundtable in the centre of the same gallery, moderated by curator Anne-Marie Proulx…

Jessica Eaton, Colour Is a Verb – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Essays
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Jessica Eaton

April 30, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — Jessica Eaton, a fast-rising star in the photographic world, has for some time now explored the notion of “colour is a verb” with rare verve, intensity, and thematic abandon. In her recent dovetailing series of works shown at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran in Montreal as part of an exhibition aptly titled Transmutations, Eaton, already celebrated as a doyenne of colour theory…

Canadian Photography Magazines, 1970–1990. Reconsidering a History of Photography in Print – Zoë Tousignant

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Essays
Authors: Zoë Tousignant

May 5, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — The essay reprinted here was written for an exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant and presented at Artexte. The exhibition was developed as part of Tousignant’s long-term research project, which examines histories and relationships between photography and the printed document in Canada…

Images of Montreal. Some notable projects on Montreal neighbourhoods – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, Clara Gutsche, David Miller, Gabor Szilasi, Michel Campeau, Miki Gingras, Patrick Dionne, Roger Charbonneau

May 12, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — Over the years, Montreal has been the subject of a number of major documentary projects. We might think of Gabor Szilasi’s prolific production – in particular, as he recorded development in the city, his photographs of St. Catherine Street (1977–79) in which he immortalized the configuration of the stores along the street…

Robert Walker, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Observations and Recollections – Pierre Dessureault, Looking at Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Robert Walker

February 5, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — For ten years, Robert Walker has been working on a project called Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: Observations and Recollections. The subtitle conveys the two aspects of his approach…

Montrealities

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, Clara Gutsche, David Miller, Gabor Szilasi, Michel Campeau, Miki Gingras, Patrick Dionne, Robert Walker, Roger Charbonneau

[Winter 2017] Over the years, many photographers have explored Montreal and its neighbourhoods. Their images have captured portraits of residents, the colour and composition of the streets and commercial arteries, and the mixture of cultures that contribute to the quality and diversity of a city, as well as the commitment of residents who create the […]

Neighbourhood Lives

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Winter 2017] It is particularly interesting to present the series of images that Robert Walker has made on the subject of the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood – where he was born and currently lives – in light of the festivities for Montreal’s 375th anniversary. The focus of these celebrations – optimistic and perhaps a bit facile – […]

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES

May 14, 2020 [originally published in Winter 2017] — The complete content of CV105 is now available online including porfolios of Robert Walker and Images of Montreal, essays about Canadian Photography Magazines 1970-1990, Jessica Eaton, Ensemble and Artgeist II, an interview with Hélène Samson as well as several recent exhibition and publication reviews…

Ami Barak, Photography Beyond Evidence
 – Claire Moeder

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Interviews
Authors: Ami Barak, Claire Moeder

[Fall 2016] Ami Barak is the curator of the next edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, which will take place in September 2017. Invited to create a se­­ries of exhibitions and activities devoted to contemporary photography, he decided to explore the theme of the document and the ambiguity of images, and to […]

Nicolas Mavrikakis, La peur de l’image – Septembre Tiberghien

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Book Reviews
Authors: Septembre Tiberghien

January 20, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Geoffrey Batchen, Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph – Claude Baillargeon

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Book Reviews
Authors: Claude Baillargeon

January 22, 2020 [originally published in Fall 2016] — Published to coincide with and provide a broader context for a similarly titled exhibition, “Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph” surveys a vital form of image making traditionally relegated to the margins of the medium’s history…

Bonnie Baxter – Hélène Brunet Neumann

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Hélène Brunet Neumann | Artists: Bonnie Baxter

January 29, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture – Ariane Noël De Tilly

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Barbara Kruger, Hannah Höch, Hito Steyerl

February 3, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.