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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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 […]
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 […]
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 – […]
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…
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 […]
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.
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…
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.
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.
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Claire Blais, Pascal Grandmaison
February 5, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Thomas Ruff
February 10, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — A desire to produce and circulate images drove the invention of photography. Almost two centuries later, the dream verges on nightmare as archivists and image theorists scramble to find space and meaning for all the photographs that have been produced. It’s a good time for collectors…
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Guillaume Lafleur | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann
February 12, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Emanuel Licha
March 1, 2017 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — With his new feature film, Hotel Machine, artist Emanuel Licha, based in Paris and Montreal, continues his questioning of the place of media and the mediatization of place. His process takes him to the “front lines” of recent warfare – at least, the front lines in the sense of media communications. Taking the relationship between architecture and mass media as a topography, Hotel Machine is a cinematic inquiry into …
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Walid Raad
February 18, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Andrew Esiebo, François-Xavier Gbré, Mimi Cherono Ng'ok
February 20, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Essays
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Carl Trahan
February 24, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — The arts were turned upside down by the advent of the internet and social media, and photography perhaps more than any other art. The uninterrupted flow of images on the Web creates both anxiety and saturation…
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Essays
Authors: Robert Evans | Artists: Robert Bean
February 26, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — Robert Bean’s photographs in the series Études (for Marconi), though seemingly straightforward in content, continue the artist’s investigations of obsolescence, its myriad relationships with and the surprisingly malleable notions of past, present, and future, and their outcomes…
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Essays, Interviews
Authors: Bénédicte Ramade, Jacques Doyon
March 3, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — The Edge of the Earth focuses on contributions by various artists and journalists to the recognition and consideration of issues linked to climate change, with a particular emphasis on the challenges posed by recognition of the central role played by humans in the disruption of their environment in what is now known as the Anthropocene Era.
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Marisa Portolese
March 5, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — Montreal-based fine-art photographer Marisa Portolese has garnered well-deserved acclaim for the clarity and lush chromatic and emotional dimensionality of her images. The third instalment of her photographic series of portraits of women and girls titled Belle de jour marks something…