[Winter 2007] Today’s global tourism industry has developed a cultural structure that orients how we see. The works presented here address various aspects of that structure and offer new perspectives on a global phenomenon. The subjects approached range from the political nature of the Venice Biennale to the recently acquired monumental status of certain sites. […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2007] by Jacques Doyon Ciel variable is twenty years old! Over the years, the magazine has undergone several metamorphoses in order to better reflect the evolution in photographic practice, the broadening of its field of application, its recognition by the art world, and changes in its institutional environment. As the only bilingual photography magazine […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Portfolios
Authors: Reesa Greenberg | Artists: Antoni Muntadas, I Giardini
[Fall 2007] On Translation is an all-encompassing site-specific series of projects that Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas has been exhibiting since 1995. The 2005 instalment of the project – On Translation: I Giardini – was composed of a central interactive installation work, as well as photographic, video, and Web-based components. Produced on the occasion of Muntadas’s selection […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Portfolios
Authors: Alain Laframboise | Artists: Jana Sterbak
[Fall 2007] Produced in 2005–06, Waiting For High Water is the latest instalment of Jana Sterbak’s video projects with Stanley as camera-dog. Through a canine view of Venice, this work suggests a completely new perspective on this pre-eminent tourist destination. Exhibited as a triptych video projection, the edited video that resulted from the dog’s view […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Portfolios
Authors: Michelle Kasprzak | Artists: Jessica Auer
[Fall 2007] Popular sites and tourism fascinate Jessica Auer. She has produced a series of photographic works that were shot in North and South America in which landscapes and architecture have been preserved, renovated, altered, or built from scratch for the benefit of tourism. Through novel perspectives and intriguing details, she invites viewers to appreciate […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Essays
Authors: Sylvie Parent | Artists: Charles Pratt, Dan Phiffer, Don Sinclair, Kati London, Marketa Bankova, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Ran Tao, Thomas Duc
[Fall 2007] by Sylvie Parent An awareness of geography has never been totally absent from the Web. At first, however, it tended to be obscured behind utopian discourses on planetary connectivity. As the early enthusiasm about the Internet developed, regional places and specificities tended to become blurred. In recent years, though, free, user-friendly cartography tools […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Essays
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2007] by Jacques Doyon This is the first part of our review of twenty years of Ciel variable. It offers an overview of the metamorphoses that the magazine has had over the years as photographic practices evolved, their field of application broadened, they were increasingly recognized by the art world, and their institutional environment […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: David Goldblatt
[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 4 mai – 16 juin 2007
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Patrice Duhamel | Artists: Guy Ben-Ner
[Fall 2007] 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 de Montréal, 10 février – 22 avril 2007
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Gyorgy Kepes, Roger Ballen, Stan Denniston
[Fall 2007] Toronto, May 1 – 31, 2007 Every May, Toronto is almost entirely given over to photography, in the guise of the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival. This past May was the festival’s eleventh annual incarnation. The theme this year was “The Constructed Image” – which, in my estimation, is more or less code for […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: David Garneau | Artists: Jin-Me Yoon, Mitch Robertson, Roger Minick
[Fall 2007] online exhibition by Gallery TPW, Toronto, ongoing The emerging phenomenon of the virtual exhibition is creating both tremendous possibilities and challenges, particularly for photographers. Virtual venues offer new ways to disseminate and consider pictures, but current formats tend to privilege the curatorial imaginary. Dubious Views houses two online exhibitions produced by Gallery TPW. […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yan Giguère
[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, espace d’art et d’essai contemporains, du 17 mars au 21 avril 2007
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay
[Fall 2007] Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal, April 7 – May 12, 2007 The photographic speculative fictions that Eve K. Tremblay exhibited at Galerie Donald Browne bore the same enigmatic hallmark as has all her earlier work. Set in some day-after-tomorrow but finally in an indeterminate tense, these works challenge the viewer, who must interpret what […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Allan Sekula, CK Rajan, George Osodi, Luis Jacob, Zoe Leonard, Zofia Kulik
[Fall 2007] Kassel, Germany, June 16 – September 23, 2007 “The big exhibition has no form.” This statement, the first sentence of a preface to the catalogue by curators Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack, set the tone for this year’s Documenta. This exhibition was indeed formless, sprawling from the heights of the Cascades at […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Book Reviews
Authors: Elitza Dulguerova, Olivier Asselin | Artists: Charles Gagnon
[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Montréal, Dazibao, collection « Études », 2006, 134 p.
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Interviews
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Vik Muniz
[Fall 2007] Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist whose major retrospective exhibition Reflex will be on view at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from October 4th 2007 to January 6th 2008. Now living and working in New York City, Muniz produces extremely rich and intricate photo works that are based on models made with […]