Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA

Ciel variable 73 – THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA

[Fall 2006]

Portfolios : GREGORY CREWDSON, MATTHIEU BROUILLARD, JANIETA EYRE.
Focus : La tyrannie paysagère, Gabor Szilasi’s photographs of Exile and Return.
Reviews : Imaging a global culture, CONTACT Photography Festival, BGL – Effet de mode et autres pirateries du genre, Mark Ruwedel, Maryse Larivière, Hala Elkoussy.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Cyril Thomas, Jean-Pierre Vidal, James D. Campbell, Suzanne Paquet, Sharon Murray, David Balzer, Ariane Noël de Tilly, Sylvain Campeau, SB Edwards, Michèle Cohen Hadria.

Staging Anxiety

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2006] by Jacques Doyon The images brought together in this issue fall under the rubric of the “staged” photography. They are inscribed within a current that has flowed throughout the history of photography, as the exhibition Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, currently on at the National Gallery of Canada, brilliantly demonstrates. These practices […]

Gregory Crewdson, Beneath the roses – Cyril Thomas, La part mystérieuse de Gregory Crewdson, dévoilement et construction de l’image photographique

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Portfolios
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Gregory Crewdson

[Fall 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 article outlines the career of Gregory Crewdson on the occasion of his retrospective at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur. Through an analysis of six photographic series, the author attempts to […]

Matthieu Brouillard, Les cadavres anticipés – Jean-Pierre Vidal, Le regard atterré et l’envol de l’imaginaire

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Matthieu Brouillard

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With the real artificiality, the true “falseness,” of his images, Matthieu Brouillard eloquently captures the imagination while deflecting the spectator’s regard toward what must be called a reflection on the […]

Janieta Eyre, What I haven’t told you – James D. Campbell, Her own private spectres, Janieta Eyre’s “Melancholy Grotesque”

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Janita Eyre

[Fall 2006] With this recent series of photographs, Janieta Eyre continues her phantasmic exploration of her inner world, her psychic fantasies, and the twists and turns of her personality, distancing herself from the self-portrait and transposing her mises en scene into models. The torments and fears of childbirth are portrayed, with the shame of the […]

La tyrannie paysagère – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Essays

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Since the nineteenth century, the rule for collecting photographic “landscapes” has allowed a certain “tyranny of the landscape” to endure and proliferate, making it so that the capturing of places […]

Recollecting home, Gabor Szilasi’s photographs of Exile and Return – Sharon Murray

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Essays
Authors: Sharon Murray | Artists: Gabor Szilasi

[Fall 2006] What is less well known is that he photographed in Hungary around the time of his flight to Canada in 1957 and again during his return to Budapest more than twenty years later. Photography was fundamental to Szilasi’s experience: it acted as a means for him to both articulate and negotiate the disjunction […]

CONTACT Photography Festival, Imaging a global culture – David Balzer

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: David Balzer | Artists: David Maisel, John Ganis, Rita Leistner

[Fall 2006] Toronto May 1 – 31, 2006 The CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival’s tenth-anniversary theme was “Imaging a Global Culture,” a reasonable choice for a festival that, like the city that hosts it, likes to underscore perspectives from a range of locales, customs and ethnicities. The theme also has an optimistic, ingenuous ring to it, a possible […]

BGL, Effet de mode et autres pirateries du genre – Ariane Noël de Tilly

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: BGL

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Optica, Montréal du 28 avril au 3 juin 2006

Mark Ruwedel, Written on the Land – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Mark Ruwedel

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée de Joliette du 12 février au 16 avril 2006

Maryse Larivière, Wild is the Wind – SB Edwards

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: SB Edwards | Artists: Maryse Larivière

[Fall 2006] Galerie Clark, Montreal March 9 – April 22, 2006 The rhythmic sound of waves lapping against the shore pervades the small back room of Galerie Clark in Montreal. It accompanies a wall-size video projection of a couple embracing tightly at the water’s edge. Only the young woman’s pale face is visible as she stares silently […]

Hala Elkoussy, Peripheral (and Other Stories) – Michèle Cohen Hadria

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Hala Elkoussy

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam du 2 avril au 14 mai 2006