Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY

[Fall 2005]

Portfolios : SYN-, PIERRE GRANCHE, CHERYL SOURKES.
Reviews : Instandstillnessence, Donigan Cumming – Moving Pictures, Damage Done. Materializing the Photographic Image, The Venice Biennale : 51st International Art Exhibition.
Readings : André Rouillé, Emmanuelle Léonard, David Tomas, Peter MacCallum.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Johanne Sloan, Alain Laframboise, Jessica Wyman, Vincent Bonin, David Balzer, Kim Simon, Jean-François Bélisle, Johanna Mizgala, Vincent Lavoie, Pavel Pavlov, Gary Michael Dault.

Beholding the City

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue is about our ways of apprehending, representing, and acting in the contemporary city. The works presented here are all characterized by the inclusion within the images of a multiplicity of points of view and a distinct process of observation. They examine different aspects of an urbanity that is […]

SYN- : Prospectus, Ville intérieure, randonnée dans un hyperbâtiment – Johanne Sloan, Appropriating the Megastructure

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Johanne Sloan | Artists: SYN–

[Fall 2005] By Johanne Sloan SYN–’s Prospectus (2003–04)1 points to contradictions in the relationship between contemporary artists and the city. This sequence of eighty-one photographs shows the SYN– members wandering around and engaged in play at various locations in the “hyperbuilding” otherwise known as Montreal’s underground city. Their sensibility might be akin to that of […]

Pierre Granche, Miroirs / reflets / trouées – Alain Laframboise, Dans la ville instable

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Alain Laframboise | Artists: Pierre Granche

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Highlighting the similarities between the convex mirror used by Pierre Granche in his series of photographs and Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1524), the mirror that Brunelleschi used in […]

Cheryl Sourkes: Cam Work – Jessica Wyman, Cheryl Sourkes: Surveilling the Field

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Jessica Wyman | Artists: Cheryl Sourkes

[Fall 2005] Cheryl Sourkes has been surfing and capturing webcam images for several years, and her work serves to articulate for viewers some of the ponderous questions that emerge in seeing the world differently through this particular technology. Sourkes’s current practice is not one of making images so much as it is one of selecting […]

Instandstillnessence – Vincent Bonin

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: John Oswald

[Fall 2005] 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 du 7 avril au 14 août 2005

Donigan Cumming, Moving Pictures – David Balzer

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Donigan Cumming | Artists: David Balzer

[Fall 2005] April 9–May 22, 2005 Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art The word “harrowing” readily pops to mind when viewing Donigan Cumming’s work. This word has broad, stock associations with both individual and empathic suffering: a lengthy battle with an illness, one’s experience nursing a friend through an illness, and, perhaps most oddly, an affecting, […]

Damage Done. Materializing the Photographic Image – Kim Simon

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Kim Simon | Artists: Jennifer Givogue

[Fall 2005] Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto May 5–June 11, 2005 Photographer and curator Vid Ingelevics is becoming known for his smart and poetic exhibitions. His installations often form wonderful intertexts, implicitly exploring the complex relationship between photography, its institutions of collection and dissemination, and the production and retention of knowledge. On its surface, […]

The Venice Biennale : 51st International Art Exhibition – Jean-François Bélisle

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Caio Reisewitz, George Hadjimichalis, Natalija Vujosevic, Oscar Muñoz, Rebecca Belmore

[Fall 2005] Venice, Italy June 12 – November 6, 2005 The cutting edge of today’s art ought to be the stuff of tomorrow, or so the contemporary belief goes. A visit to the fifty-first edition of the Venice Biennale highlights the importance and complexity of the relationship between the two elements of this belief: time […]

André Rouillé : La photographie – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Vincent Lavoie

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. André Rouillé : La photographie Paris, Gallimard 2005

Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Fall 2005] Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies Montréal, Occurrence 2005 Emmanuelle Léonard has exhibited a growing body of work since 1996, steadily evolving into a contemporary photographer whose next project is eagerly anticipated. Her complex images not only explore the theoretical terrain between photographer, subject, and viewer, but also serve to disentangle pervasively […]

David Tomas : A Blinding Flash of Light – Pavel Pavlov

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Pavel Pavlov | Artists: David Tomas

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. David Tomas:A Blinding Flash of Light Photography Between Disciplines and Media Dazibao 2004

Peter MacCallum : Material World – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Peter MacCallum

[Fall 2005] Peter MacCallum:Material World YYZ Books and Museum London 2004 Since the late 1960s, Toronto photographer Peter MacCallum has been devoting a great deal of his time to documenting the work of other visual artists. It has been a long, exacting sojourn in alternate sensibilities that might well have exhausted anyone less determined than […]