
Ciel variable 70 – MATERIA ET LUMEN
[Winter 2005-2006] EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS EXHIBITIONS Purchase this issue
[Winter 2005-2006] EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS EXHIBITIONS Purchase this issue
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2005-2006] by Jacques Doyon Seeing better, seeing farther; disrupting the representation, dissolving it: these approaches seem contradictory. Yet, paradoxically, they hew to a single frontier: that of the visible and representable, that of the limit of our capacity to see and our perceptual expectations. They meet in a common exploration of light as a […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Michael Flomen
[Winter 2005-2006] Michael Flomen’s works encompass an abstract, oneiric space that we cannot easily reference, for it is openly ambiguous, hovering somewhere between the dream and the waking moment. Whether rain and snowfalls registering at night on handmade photograms (Teeming), the evidentiary bioluminescence of fireflies caught on photographic flypaper in the dead of night as […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol
[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Campeau examines the scope and consequences of what seems to be implied by the possibility that objects can produce their own visible radiation, thereby challenging the very notion of photographic […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: Ann Thomas | Artists: Claudia Fährenkemper
[Winter 2005-2006] German photographer Claudia Fährenkemper’s powerful black and white photomicrographs are a contemporary expression of the centuries-old human need to know what lies beneath the surface of things. Taken with a scanning electron microscope, her photographs of insects, crystals and planktons provide a sensual encounter with the microcosm and its morphology that lead to […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: Lisanne Nadeau | Artists: Paul Lacroix
[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract All of Paul Lacroix’s works are imbued with his fascination with the marking of a vast, luminous surface of paper. From drawing to photogram, he attracts us with an unvarying, […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Anna Carlevaris | Artists: Adad Hannah, Diane Borsato, Michael Snow, Mike Yuhasz, Polixeni Papapetrou, Rafael Goldchain
[Winter 2005-2006] Le mois de la photo à Montréal September 8–October 10, 2005 Montreal’s biennial of photography marks its ninth edition this year under the artistic stewardship of Martha Langford, founding director and former chief curator of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (1983–94). It takes someone with Langford’s expertise to curate what has become […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ann Thomas | Artists: Dieter Appelt
[Winter 2005-2006] Canadian Centre for Architecture March 9–May 22, 2005 Ever since Dieter Appelt dedicated his career to making photographs in the early 1970s, he has addressed ontological issues relating to the nature of life, death, and the transmission of experience and memory. He has done this not only by developing complex sequencing structures for […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Iain Baxter&, N.E. Thing Co.
[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine Montréal 10 septembre au 22 octobre 2005
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Nobuyoshi Araki
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Palais de Tokyo Paris 8 octobre 2005
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Christian Barré, Emmanuelle Léonard, Isabelle Hayeur, Martin Désilets, Myriam Yates, Pavel Pavlov
[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain Montréal 7 octobre 2005 au 8 janvier 2006