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New and worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Book Reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Spring-Summer 2013] By Sonia Pelletier Des monographies Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography (London UK: Black Dog Publishing; Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2012, 352 pp., Eng.) This publication, which accompanies the eponymous exhibition curated by Daina Augaitis, is the most comprehensive publication devoted to the work of Canadian artist Ian Wallace. Reflecting […]

Mikhael Subotzky, Retinal Shift – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

February 5, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Light Years, Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964-1977 – Felicity Tayler

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Book Reviews
Authors: Felicity Tayler

February 8, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — The title phrase of this catalogue, Light Years, is a pun on an oft-misused term. Although widely thought to refer to a measurement of time, it is actually an astronomic unit measuring the distance travelled by light over one year. What meanings can this term have when applied to a historical survey exhibition of photographic practices around 1970? Aside from the obvious…

Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection – Andrea Carson Barker

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Andrea Carson | Artists: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Michael Snow

February 12, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — Curator Peggy Gale and Ryerson Image Centre director Doina Popescu smartly chose to inaugurate Ryerson University’s new building and gallery with an exhibition specifically about “The Archive.” In this case, the focus was the world-renowned Black Star Collection, comprising over 290,000 photojournalistic prints, which had been donated anonymously to Ryerson University in 2005.

Charles-Antoine Blais-Métivier et Serge-Olivier Rondeau, After Faceb00k – Christelle Proulx

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Christelle Proulx | Artists: Charles-Antoine Blais-Métivier, Serge-Olivier Rondeau

February 14, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Birthe Piontek, The Idea of North – Gentiane La France

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Gentiane La France | Artists: Birthe Piontek

February 19, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Lorna Bauer, Grey is a Colour, Gray is a Color – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Lorna Bauer

February 21, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — The title of Lorna Bauer’s exhibition at Galerie Nicolas Robert offers a simple paradigm for what she explores with her series of photographs. Bauer initially sets us up for a documentary-style tour of some storefronts in New York’s celebrated garment district. Storefronts have been a tried-and-true subject for photographers since the early days of the technology…

Alain Laframboise, Figures – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Laframboise

February 26, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jacynthe Carrier, Parcours – Manon Tourigny

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Manon Tourigny | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier

February 28, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Robert Duchesnay, Le studio et l’anti-studio de Joseph Beuys et de Buckminster Fuller – Pierre Rannou

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Pierre Rannou | Artists: Robert Duchesnay

March 5, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Agence Stock Photo – Jérôme Delgado

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Caroline Hayeur, Jean-François Leblanc

March 7, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Milutin Gubash, Consolation, Les faux-semblants – Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre | Artists: Milutin Gubash

March 12, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

SITEGEIST – THE SPIRIT OF A PLACE – Ciel variable’s first fund-raising campaign

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Essays
Artists: Alain Paiement, Angela Grauerholz, Chuck Samuels, Gabor Szilasi

[Spring/summer 2013] Works created for the first Ciel variable fund-raising campaign This campaign is based on the idea of bringing together a collector and a photographer to create an original artwork on the theme “the spirit of a place” – a place selected by the collector and interpreted by the artist. The exercise offers a […]

Omer Fast, Continuous Coverage – Blake Fitzpatrick

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Essays
Authors: Blake Fitzpatrick | Artists: Omer Fast

March 14, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — Omer Fast is not a documentarian, but his solo exhibition at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery did draw attention to the strategies of an artist working, as Jeff Wall put it, “near documentary.” Spanning the last decade, the exhibition referenced sites of recent global conflict with three video works that quoted documentary or journalistic convention…

Anticoste of Richard Baillargeon, Fragments for a History – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Richard Baillargeon

March 19, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — Richard Baillargeon’s Anticoste is presented as a complex composition of heterogeneous materials organized in groups to create vast networks of significances, echoes, and resonances and to constitute a reflection both on the history of Anticosti and on the narrative processes implemented in knowledge and the relationship with the past.

Patrick Dionne et Miki Gingras, Identité Centre-Sud – Pierre Rannou, Beyond a Neighbourhood, a Community

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Rannou | Artists: Miki Gingras, Patrick Dionne

March 21, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — Far from fitting the image of picture chasers and big-time reporters, Patrick Dionne and Miki Gingras seem, rather, to present themselves as pedagogues of photography, as their projects are intended both to document the contemporary world and to teach the rudiments of photography…

Dominique Auerbacher, Scratches – Emmanuel Hermange, Through a Tramcar Window-Screen

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Portfolios
Authors: Emmanuel Hermange | Artists: Dominique Auerbacher

March 26, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — Dominique Auerbacher’s early career was bound up in the emergence of photographic commissions devoted to landscape in Europe, starting with the Mission photographique de la Datar, which brought her to the public eye in the mid-1980s. She sparked a lively debate by choosing, against all expectations, to photograph a number of major European cities…

Nicolas Baier, Autoportrait – Sylvain Campeau, Transiting through Photography

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Nicolas Baier

March 26, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — To judge by his works, Nicolas Baier has never been anything but a photographer, as these works are replete with all the potentialities, components, and mechanisms of the medium. This is so even when the works he creates are not photographic…

Public Art

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Portfolios
Artists: Dominique Auerbacher, Miki Gingras, Nicolas Baier, Patrick Dionne

[Spring/summer 2013] A thematic section on public art featuring the works of nicolas baier, dominique auerbacher, and patrick dionne and Miki gingras, highlighting the issues of community affirmation in the public space and the revelation, or contestation, of its customs and regulations. Somewhere between group portrait, “objective” self-portrait, and urban anti-aesthetic . . . NICOLAS […]

Other Ways of Inscribing Public Art in the City

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Dominique Auerbacher, Nicolas Baier

[Spring/summer 2013] In this issue, we return to the question of public art, a subject we previously addressed in issues 82 and 90. The artworks chosen for this portfolio stand out for the acuity with which their context for integration has been managed. Each of these artworks, in its way, offers an exemplary response to […]

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART

[Spring-Summer 2013] A thematic section on public art featuring the works of Nicolas Baier, Dominique Auerbacher, and Patrick Dionne and Miki Gingras, highlighting the issues of community affirmation in the public space and the revelation, or contestation, of its customs and regulations. Some where between group portrait, “objective” selfportrait, and urban antiaesthetic . . […]

Joan Fontcuberta, Photography in the Era of Meteorites – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Interviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés, Joan Fontcuberta | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

November 6, 2017 [originally published in CV93 in Winter 2013] — After forty years of international recognition and numerous exhibitions, today catalonian artist Joan Fontcuberta is a major voice in the discourse on photographic issues in the era of Web 2.0. In 2011, he was co-curator of the controversial exhibition “From Here On,” presented at the rencontres d’Arles…

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Book Reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Winter 2013] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Par Sonia Pelletier Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012; edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky, 264 pp., Eng.) Le langage des […]

David Tomas, Live rightly, die, die . . . – Bernard Schütze

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Book Reviews
Authors: Bernard Schütze

November 8, 2017 [originally published in CV93 in Winter 2013] — Live rightly, die, die…, the book that accompanies the two-part exhibition organized by the artist-curator David Tomas at Dazibao, is no ordinary exhibition catalogue with its requisite visual documentation and explanatory theoretical essay. Live rightly, die, die… does in fact contain ample visuals and a lengthy essay, but instead of cataloguing and contextualizing the exhibition the book is an experimental extension and integral part of the overall Live rightly, die, die… project. The unusual nature of the publication is made immediately apparent as one opens the book and flips to the page facing the title page…

Chantal Pontbriand, Mutations: Perspectives on Photography – Carol Payne

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Book Reviews
Authors: Carol Payne

November 13, 2017 [originally published in CV93 in Winter 2013] — Mutations : Perspectives sur la photographie / Perspectives on Photography, the major publication marking the 2011 edition of the Paris Photo biennial exhibition, is an omnibus collection of current thinking about photography theory and recent photo-based art. Edited by Chantal Pontbriand, founder and editor of the now defunct (and still much lamented) Montreal-based journal Parachute…

Ivan Binet, Bribes – Catherine Lebel Ouellet

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Catherine Lebel Ouellet | Artists: Ivan Binet

November 15, 2017 [originally published in French in CV93 in Winter 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Edward Curtis, Un projet démesuré – Guy Sioui Durand

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Edward Curtis

November 20, 2017 [originally published in French in CV93 in Winter 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Larry Clark, C|O Berlin – Eloi Desjardins

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Eloi Desjardins | Artists: Larry Clark

November 22, 2017 [originally published in French in CV93 in Winter 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Berenice Abbott: Photographs – John K. Grande

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Berenice Abbott

November 27, 2017 [originally published in CV93 in Winter 2013] — Toronto, being such an architectural and photographic city, seems the perfect venue for a Berenice Abbott show. In collaboration with the Jeu de Paume in Paris, Toronto’s Ryerson Image Centre mounted a fine, comprehensive survey exhibition of Abbott’s life in photography. Early on, Abbott got to know Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray in Greenwich Village, New York, before heading for Paris to become Man Ray’s apprentice and assistant…

Making History, Ray 2012 Fotografieprojekte – Serge Allaire

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire | Artists: Luc Delahaye, Simon Norfolk

November 29, 2017 [originally published in French in CV93 in Winter 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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