Miki Gingras – Anne-Marie Garceau, Against All Reason

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Authors: Anne-Marie Garceau | Artists: Miki Gingras

by Anne-Marie Garceau Aside from the demolition machines attacking a distant wing of the boarding school, the site is deserted. The photographer enters the condemned building, determined to make the silence speak. For some twenty years, the boarding school’s classrooms, dormitories, corridors, and bathrooms have been haunted by the dreams and fears of the children […]

The Photographic Activity of “Visual Culture” – Cheryl Simon

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Authors: Cheryl Simon

[Hiver 1996-1997] by Cheryl Simon Last summer, October magazine ran a special issue on “visual culture.” Offering an “initial account of [the] uses and abuses” of this emergent concept, co-editors Rosalind Krauss and Hal Foster defined the term as “both a partial description of a social world mediated by commodity images and visual technologies, and […]

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CV37

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Authors: Franck Michel

[Winter 1996-1997] by Franck Michel CVphoto, as our readers have undoubtedly noticed, has been progressively acquiring a new image; we have improved the overall graphic layout and made some changes to the cover page. As of this issue, the space allotted to exhibition reviews has been expanded. From now on, we will be able to […]

Travel Journals, Part I – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Geoffrey James

[Fall 1996] Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal May 2–July 28, 1996 From Homer’s Odyssey to Kerouac’s On the Road and beyond, travel has provided inspiration for countless tales. Part of the attraction lies in break­ing boundaries, in widening the realm of the imaginary. Then there is what Voltaire’s nomadic characters Candide and Cacambo recognized […]

Dieter Appelt : La catastrophe des choses – Suzie Larivée

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Authors: François Dion | Artists: Dieter Appelt

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal Du 17 avril au 4 août 1996

Pierre Fátúmbi Verger, Dieux d’Afrique – François Dion

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Authors: François Dion

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Revue Noire, 1995, 416 p. Disponible chez Olivieri-Musée ou chez DPLU.

La Photographie en France, textes et controverses : une anthologie 1818 -1871 – Manon Gosselin

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Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction d’André Rouillé, Paris, Macula, 1989, 543 p., illus., 80,00$.

Serge Clément – Jean-Claude Lemagny, De l’apparition à la présence

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Authors: Jean-Claude Lemagny | Artists: Serge Clément

[Fall 1996] Clément’s technique as an artist does not differ from his technique as a reporter-photographer, which he is as well. But it is absolutely enough to “bring the earth closer and establish a world,” to take up Martin Heidegger’s fundamental thought. “Bring the earth closer” means bringing to the surface that which is in […]

Katherine Knight, I became unconscious

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Artists: Katherine Knight

[Fall 1996] by Katherine Knight Looking down I saw that my left trouser leg was burned off. I pulled the rip cord of my parachute and checked my descent with a jerk. About twenty feet above the water I attempted to undo my parachute, failed and flopped into the sea with it billowing around me. […]

Arnaud Claass – Jean Arrouye, L’art aporétique d’Arnaud Claass

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Authors: Jean Arrouye | Artists: Arnaud Claass

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Les fins de l’ontologie photographique – Vincent Lavoie

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Authors: Vincent Lavoie

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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The Odour of the Planet

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Authors: Franck Michel

[Fall 1996] by Franck Michel Not one day passes that the media don’t mention the issues of globalization, internationalization, and disappearing borders. Our planet is, after all, becoming quite small. Starting with this issue, CVphoto has decided to join in the party. From now on, this magazine will no longer deal exclusively with photography from […]

Réal Lussier & Olivier Asselin, L’Effet cinéma – Marc J. Léger

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Authors: Marc J. Léger | Artists: Olivier Asselin, Réal Lussier

[Summer 1996] Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1995, 58 pp. Reproductions in black and white and colour. The catalogue L’Effet cinéma, addendum to the recent exhibition of Canadian, American, and European artists, outlines some of the theoretical issues that emerge from a consideration of the presence of cinematographic elements in contemporary art. As the doubly […]

Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation – Manon Gosselin

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Authors: Manon Gosselin, Sylvain Campeau

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation, Laval, Éditions Trois, 1995, 288 pages.

Fabrications – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: David Rasmus

[Summer 1996] Galerie Dazibao, Montreal April 6–May 5, 1996 Issues of ethnic, racial, and gender identity have been riding high on the “top ten” of exhibition themes for quite some time now. As a result, art has increas­ingly adopted the documentary form to varying degrees. But in this cacophony of artistic commentary on the politics […]

Sarla Voyer, Objet de dérivation – Robert Legendre

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Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Sarla Voyer

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre des Arts contemporains à Montréal Du 22 mars au 20 avril 1996

Lucie Duval, 25 images/seconde ; photographies détournées – Suzie Larivée

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Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Lucie Duval

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox Du 15 février au 17 mars 1996

Marc Tessier – David Liss, Tarot

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Authors: David Liss | Artists: Marc Tessier

[Summer 1996] by David Liss Marc Tessier is a poet, a storyteller, an alchemist, an artist. His films, comics, and photographs are the matter by which he transforms mundane existence and ordinary reality into a mythological universe of imaginative possibility and adventure. He playfully fabricates magical landscapes, fairy-tale environments, and surrealistic worlds of wonder that […]

Marie-Jeanne Musiol- Marie-Josée Jean, Champs de l’apparition

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Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Été 1996] by Marie-Josée Jean Marie-Jeanne Musiol’s images invest the territory of invisibility by inscribing subtle traces of emanations on their surface – more precisely, the luminous emanations commonly known as “auras.” These auras, once sunk deep into the secret of their own invisibility, have been revealed thanks to the Kirlian apparatus, a vision-enhancing machine […]

André Clément, André Clément, Vues en abîmes

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Artists: Serge Clément

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Révolte, photographie et immatérialité : provocation ou manifeste ? – Marcel Blouin

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Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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The “ça a été” of the “Has Been”

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Authors: Robert Legendre

[Summer 1996] by Robert Legendre Recently I perused, not for the first time, La Matière, l’ombre, la fiction,1 a catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name presented in the Colbert Gallery of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1994 and 1995. Jean-Claude Lemagny, the exhibition curator, wrote most of the texts in […]

Simon Glass – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Simon Glass

[Spring 1996] Galerie Vox, Montreal January 11–February 11, 1996 With his recent exhibition Yahweh!, Toronto-based photographer Simon Glass virtually transforms the rather small and narrow space of Galerie Vox into a shrine bringing to mind, of course, the perennial analogy between museums and cathedrals or, in this case, between gallery and temple. Four different groups […]

Énergie et aménagement : les villes industrielles planifiées du Québec, 1890-1950 – Franck Michel

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Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Gabor Szilasi

[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Canadien d’Architecture Du 6 mars au 26 mai 1996

Sylvie Readman, Reviviscence – Franck Michel

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Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Samuel Lallouz du 25 novembre 1995 au 6 janvier 1996

Discovering the Secrets of Monsieur Pippin, F.R.A.C. Limousin – John Zeppetelli

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Authors: John Zeppetelli

[Spring 1996] Discovering the Secrets of Monsieur Pippin ISBBN 2 908257 17 3. Published on the occasion of Steven Pippin’s exhibition Les Coopérateurs at F.R.A.C. Limousin 1995 Ascribing mythic points of origin to an artist’s body of work has a dubious history. It follows that Steven Pippin’s childhood initiation into the elaborate rituals of processing […]

WODICZKO (Krzysztof). Art public, art critique. Textes, propos et documents – Marc J. Léger

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Authors: Marc J. Léger | Artists: Krzysztof Wodiczko

[Spring 1996] Compiled by Marie-Anne Sichère, translated from English by Michelle Herpe-Voslinsky and from Polish by Wojciech Kolecki. École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1995, 342 pp., 140 ill. This newly edited publication in the “Écrits d’artistes” series makes available a number of translated articles and statements written by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. The opening […]