Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD – Ciel variable Magazine

Ciel variable 71 – IMAGE WORLD

[Spring 2006]

Portfolios : CHIH-CHIEN WANG, EMMANUELLE LÉONARD, ROY ARDEN.
Focus : (Un)framing Interior Views Cultural Geography in the Work of Lynne Cohen.
Reviews : Diana Thorneycroft, Jeff Wall, Doyon-Rivest, Covering the Real, Feintes_ doutes + fictions, Donigan Cumming – Controlled Disturbance, Arborealis.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Alice Ming Wai Jim, André-Louis Paré, Roy Arden, Dieter Roelstraete, Jean-François Bélisle, James D. Campbell, Cyril Thomas, Kevin Temple, Vincent Lavoie, Vincent Bonin, Sylvain Campeau, Gary Michael Dault.

Image World

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Spring 2006] by Jacques Doyon In this issue, we feature works that, in their profusion and scope, offer a glimpse at the condition of the world as it is manifested and revealed through the mechanisms for fabrication and circulation of images. These image systems are of different dimensions, ranging from identity as it is defined […]

Chih-Chien Wang, The Centre of the Forest Is a Lake Like Mirror – Alice Ming Wai Jim, Domestic Trajectories

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: Alice Ming Wai Jim | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

[Spring 2006] The piece, initially presented at Dazibao, covered the entire walls of the gallery with dozens of images and two video works. Each photography is like a suspended moment in time, extracted from a continuous flux in which perception, memory and culture intermingle to create a personal trajectory and identity. Newspaper Wrap, on the […]

Emmanuelle Léonard, Resguárdeme – André-Louis Paré, Emmanuelle Léonard : une histoire de l’œil

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: André-Louis Paré | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard, Sean Reuthler

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The author bases himself on Michel Foucault’s analysis of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon to examine the works of Emmanuelle Léonard – more specifically, the video installation Guardia, resguárdeme (Guard, protect me), […]

Roy Arden, The World as Will and Representation – Roy Arden, Notes on The World as Will and Representation (Archive, 2004–)

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Artists: Roy Arden

[Spring 2006] Roy Arden’s piece presents a kaleidoscopic flux of some 10,000 images extracted from the web, depicting different manifestations of the concrete world. Structured around arbitrary entries, it deploys so many numerous variations that we are left in a state of amazement and confusion. By Roy Arden I have collected images since I was […]

Roy Arden, The World as Will and Representation – Dieter Roelstraete, Les mots et les choses, Alternating Currents in Roy Arden’s Net.art

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: Dieter Roelstraete | Artists: Roy Arden

[Spring 2006] by Dieter Roelstraete In The World as Will and Representation, his first-ever online/Internet art project, acclaimed Vancouver artist Roy Arden returns to the archival tropes, modes, and motifs that helped give decisive shape to his landmark works from the mid-1980s, the best known of which are the Rupture, Abjection, and Mission “series” or […]

(Un)framing Interior Views Cultural Geography in the Work of Lynne Cohen – Jean-François Bélisle

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Essays
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Spring 2006] by Jean-François Bélisle Since the early 1970s, Cohen has lived and worked in no fewer than nine countries, photographing unpopulated interiors in public and private establishments such as schools, spas, and laboratories. Her practice has been informed by her nomadic lifestyle. Her mostly black-and-white images may seem to be documentations of specific awkward […]

Diana Thorneycroft – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Diana Thorneycroft

[Spring 2006] The Canadiana Martyrdom Series Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal November 17 – December 21, 2005 I make of Her an image of Death so as not to be shattered through the hatred I bear against myself when I identify with Her. . . . Thus the feminine as image of death is not only […]

Jeff Wall – Cyril Thomas

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Jeff Wall

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Tate Modern, Londres du 21 octobre 2005 au 8 janvier 2006

Doyon-Rivest – Kevin Temple

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Kevin Temple | Artists: Mathieu Doyon, Simon Rivest

[Spring 2006] Doyon-Rivest thanks for being there October 27–November 26, 2005 Gallery TPW The work of Doyon-Rivest asks the simple question, If the world of advertising can exploit art and artists for financial benefit, then why can’t artists appropriate the tools of advertising in their art practice? When you set aside the alleged lofty goals […]

Covering the Real – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews
Authors: Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Martha Rosler

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Covering the Real Art and the Press Picture from Warhol to Tillmans Kunstmuseum Basel DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag 2005

Feintes_ doutes + fictions – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Feintes_ doutes + fictions Réflexions sur la photographie numérique Québec, éditions J’ai VU 2005

Controlled Disturbance, Donigan Cumming – Vincent Bonin

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Controlled Disturbance, Donigan Cumming Montréal, Vidéographe Coffret DVD 2005

Arborealis. Thaddeus Holownia – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Thaddeus Holownia

[Spring 2006] Arborealis Thaddeus Holownia Anchorage Press 2005 The panoramic format in photography simultaneously poses delicate problems and offers sumptuous opportunities. The problems tend to centre around compositional matters – the way that the image, often more than twice as wide as it is high, is usually informed either by a conventional recourse to the […]