Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Spring 1996] by Robert Legendre “Each person’s fate is linked to the source of his or her dignity.”1 And at the moment, CVphoto’s dignity is to survive with pleasure. That is why we are starting, with this issue, to publish texts the content of which will no doubt interest all of our readers. We believe […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary On September 23, 1995, Vox Populi, in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain, organized a conference entitled “The Presence of Photography in Museum Collections: Specificity of a Medium and […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Franck Michel
[Spring 1996] by Suzie Larivée The garden is an image of the world San for the mountain. Sui for water. The sand becomes water. The stone becomes a mountain. The Japanese garden is a theatre: in transposing a landscape, reducing an existing natural site, it brings together an ancient arrangement of water, stones, sand, hilly […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Ruth Kaplan
[Spring 1996] by Robert Legendre To look directly at Ruth Kaplan’s photographs, one must go beyond the “at first glance” voyeurism induced by curiosity. Instead, one must look closely at these works, which portray a world of tranquillity and peace, imbued with tender sensuality, where time moves slowly. Freed of the constraints of an outdated, […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Charles Perraton | Artists: Daniel Kieffer
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Daniel Kieffer’s photographs constantly transport the viewer from one side of the lens to the other. With his camera at the service of sensation rather than the “beautiful image,” Kieffer […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Bertrand Carrière
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Montréal, Éditions Les 400 coups, coll. «Images», 1995.
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Berkeley (Californie), University of California Press,1993, 632 p.
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
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 […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
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 […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Exhibition Reviews
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
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Exhibition Reviews
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
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Exhibition Reviews
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 […]