Anne Bénichou – Renouer avec l’esthétique de l’archive photographique

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 […]

Patrick Altman, Musées et archives : les collections revisitées – Louise Déry, La déposition de l’image

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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 […]

Catherine Poncin, Du champ des hommes, territoires – Michèle Cohen Hadria, « Du champ des hommes »…

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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 […]

Vid Ingelevics, Between art and Art – Elizabeth Legge

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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 […]

Ciel variable 59 – ARCHIVES

Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES

[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.

Activating the Archive

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, […]

Livres reçus – Jacques Doyon

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, […]

Dominique Baqué, Mauvais genre(s). Érotisme, pornographie, art contemporain – Jacques Doyon

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

Martha Langford, Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums – Cheryl Simon

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 […]

Emmanuelle Léonard, Les travailleurs – Anite de Carvalho

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.

Lynne Cohen, No Man’s Land: The Photographs of Lynne Cohen – Johanna Mizgala

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 […]

Olivier Christinat, Portraits et nus – Lyne Crevier, Dévisager

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 […]

Marisa Portolese, Belle de jour – Dayna McLeod, Tattooed innocence with post-punk appeal

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. […]

Evergon, Evergon, Margaret and I – Alain Laframboise, Le miroir d’Evergon

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 […]

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[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.

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE

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[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.

Poses and Gazes

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 […]

Vincent Lavoie, L’instant-monument. Du fait divers à l’humanitaire – Guy Bellavance

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

Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Corps de lumière / Bodies of Light – Sylvain Campeau

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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.)

Marc Audette, Écran – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

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 […]

Herbert List ou « la mise en présence de l’absence » – Adriana Kolar

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 […]

Isabelle Hayeur, Paysages incertains – Suzanne Paquet, Quelques fêlures

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 […]

Manuel Piña, On Monuments – Petra Watson, The Photographs of Manuel Piña

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 […]

Ivan Binet, Répertoire d’horizons – Sonia Pelletier, Nulle part chez nous

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 […]

A Constructed Landscape

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 […]

Javier Vallhonrat, Obras, 1995-2001 – Sylvain Campeau

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.)

No man’s land, Les photographies de Lynne Cohen – Catherine Pomparat

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)

Bill Vazan, Ombres cosmologiques – Suzanne Paquet

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

Le pouvoir de l’image, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2001 – Guy Bellavance

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.

Ramona Ramlochand, Once Upon a Time . . . Ever After, a digital photographic panorama, 2001 – Ramona Ramlochand, Fragmentation

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. […]