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Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY

  [Spring-Summer 2014] Three approaches to the portrait sustained by pictorial references and knowledge manifested in chiaroscuro, framings and poses, texture and draping of fabrics, head positions, and, above all, the gazes. And techniques that ennoble their subjects.   EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXHIBITIONS READINGS VOICES   Purchase this issue

Dignity and Distinction

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Christian Tagliavini, Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, Pierre Gonnord

What, in fact, could the people (gypsies, miners, aristocrats, models, night owls, and others) gathered here in portraits have in common but the dignity conferred upon them by the photographers who took their picture? These artists’ approaches also share crossreferences, as well as photographic and pictorial skills displayed in chiaroscuros, framings, poses, textures and drapings […]

Portrait Gallery

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Portfolios
Artists: Christian Tagliavini, Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, Pierre Gonnord

Three approaches to the portrait sustained by pictorial references and knowledge manifested in chiaroscuro, framings and poses, texture and draping of fabrics, head positions, and, above all, the gazes. And techniques that ennoble their subjects. PIERRE GONNORD Portraits Strong presences with imposing gazes, and yet revealed with a sort of humility. Pierre Gonnord approached anonymous […]

Pierre Gonnord, Portraits – Pierre Rannou, The Intensity of the Gaze

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Rannou | Artists: Pierre Gonnord

November 5, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Pierre Gonnord’s photographic portraits are fascinating for the experience that they offer us. The models gaze straight at the photographer’s lens, and we are taken aback: we feel like they are staring at us…

Christian Tagliavini, 1503 | Dame di cartone – Johanna Mizgala, Mannerism, Medici, and Madmen: Christian Tagliavini’s Photographic Mise-en-scène

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Portfolios
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Christian Tagliavini

November 2, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Portraits are deceptively alluring: we are immediately attracted to admiring the faces of others. As we are drawn under their spell, the images reveal themselves to be carefully crafted manifestations that must be decoded to be fully understood…

Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, The Way of the Willows – Claire Moeder, A New Wrinkle in Portraiture

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Portfolios
Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Gabriel Coutu-Dumont

October 29, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — In Glasgow, the artist Gabriel Coutu-Dumont set up a minimal photography studio on Sauchiehall Street, a street frequented by the city’s night owls. For several nights, he drew these passersby away from the tumult of the street and asked them to pose in front of an analog camera for a twenty-minute session. The result was The Way of the Willows, a gallery of eighty anachronistic portraits in which the classical composition contrasts with the signs of the models’ contemporary lives…

Family of Man | New Topographics, Audacity by Proxy : The Reiteration of Exhibitions – Bénédicte Ramade

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Essays
Authors: Bénédicte Ramade

October 24, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — The two last decades have seen the growth of a complex phenomenon: exhibition reproductions. A reprise produced as the inclusion of a “period room” doesn’t have the same effects as a complete restaging of a famous precedent in twentieth-century art history…

The Quebec Photobook, Thoughts on a History to Be Uncovered – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Essays
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

October 22, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — I discovered Marcel Cognac by chance – a chance presented to those who know how to wait for it, to those who want to understand something about their culture and their country. When I came across a copy of his book Visages du Québec, published in 1964, with text by Jean-Charles Harvey…

Tacita Dean, Out of Time: A Seeing that Touches – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Essays
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Tacita Dean

October 17, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — This was Winnicott’s response to the difficult challenge of reconciling oneself to one’s own temporality, a favoured problem for artists from On Kawara to Ann Hamilton to Tacita Dean. Artists have tended to handle this challenge in one of two ways: through an art practice that cultivates a relationship with the past or, conversely, by exploring new forms of subjectivity…

Robert Burley, La disparition de l’obscurité / Michel Campeau, Icônes de l’obsolescence – Louis Cummins

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Louis Cummins | Artists: Michel Campeau, Robert Burley

October 15, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Dominique Blain, Blancs de mémoire – Pierre Rannou

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Pierre Rannou | Artists: Dominique Blain

October 12, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Antoni Muntadas, Entre/Between – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Antoni Muntadas

October 10, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Warning: Perception Requires Involvement, in bold white text on a red background, covers the wall of the Canada Line transit station in downtown Vancouver. It is both a statement about the commitment needed to understand something and a public warning about the tendency these days to limit the onslaught of information to what can be gleaned in a ten-second media clip or an advertising image…

Michel Lamothe, Fréquenter le paysage – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Michel Lamothe

October 3, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Lorraine Gilbert, Paysages canadiens 1988-2013 – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Lorraine Gilbert

October 1, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Laura Letinsky, Still Life Photographs 1997–2012 – Robert Evans

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Robert Evans | Artists: Laura Letinsky

September 26, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — For over a decade, Winnipeg-born photographer Laura Letinsky has pursued still-life photography as a means to explore social structures and the world around us. These works are drawn from five series and range from early compositions that owe obvious debts to the traditional still-life genre to more recent images that challenge the viewer’s understanding of picture space and the nature of photographic representation…

Raymond Depardon, Un moment si doux – Franck Michel

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Raymond Depardon

September 24, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jocelyne Alloucherie, Dédale / Yann Pocreau, Projections – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie, Yann Pocreau

September 19, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. – Ivan Tanzer

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ivan Tanzer | Artists: Alan Michelson

September 17, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Although he did not set out to organize a comprehensive history of activism in Aboriginal art, guest curator and National Visiting Trudeau Fellow Steve Loft has mounted a significant exhibition that strengthens the living discourse surrounding Aboriginal art production…

Claire Beaugrand-Champagne. Émouvante vérité, Photographies de 1970 à 2013 – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Claire Beaugrand-Champagne

September 14, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Yan Giguère, Visites libres – Julie Gagné

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Julie Gagné | Artists: Yan Giguère

September 12, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Michael Flomen, NYX/1993*2013 – John K. Grande

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Michael Flomen

September 7, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — The origins of camera-less photography go back to the beginnings of photography, with William Henry Fox Talbot’s photogenic drawings, the process for which he described in 1839: “It is a little bit of magic realized: – of natural magic. You make the powers of nature work for you, and no wonder that your work is well and quickly done…”

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Book Reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Spring-Summer 2014] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV97 – Ouvrages à souligner. Par Sonia Pelletier What Is a Photograph?, New York: International Center of Photography, 2013, 256 pp., Eng. Art and The Internet, London, U.K.: Black Dog Publishing, 2013, 224 pp., Eng. Chantal […]

Martha Langford, About Speaking of Photography – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Interviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon, Martha Langford | Artists: Clifford Owens

September 5, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Martha Langford is the research chair and director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and a professor of art history at Concordia University in Montreal. Her books on photography include Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (2001); Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art (2007)…

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