Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Portfolios
Authors: Élisabeth Recurt | Artists: Denis Farley
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Portfolios
Authors: Dot Tuer | Artists: Jeff Wall
[Spring 1999] In Jeff Wall’s photographs, there is an attraction and deflection – a push and pull of ideological thrusts and formal repartées – that entraps the viewer. Standing in front of a large-scale back-lit Cibachrome, one is caught in the middle of an exquisitely choreographed duel between painting and photography. by Dot Tuer In […]
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Portfolios
Authors: Leo Kandl | Artists: Josef Wais
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Andrea Szilasi
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Circa Du 9 janvier au 13 février 1999
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Clara Gutsche
[Printemps 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art de Joliette Du 18 octobre 1998 au 10 janvier 1999
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction de France Choinière et Yves O’Reilly, Oxford, Dazibao, les essais. 1998.
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers | Artists: Man Ray
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction d’Emmanuelle de l’Écotais et Alain Sayag, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou/Seuil, avril 1998, 260 pages.
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Editorial
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle
[Summer 1999] by Jennifer Couëlle It serves sometimes friendship, sometimes love. It is synonymous with both tenderness and desire. It conveys kindness and can lead to passion, but also subsists in simple pleasure. For affection, above all, means interest: in a person, a place, a climate, a phenomenon, and – why not? – an object. […]
[Summer 1999]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Essays
Authors: Sylvie Laliberté
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Carl Bouchard
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Carl Bouchard’s self-portraits are fictitious, emotional mises en scène, in which the laying bare of the body corresponds to the laying bare of feelings. Bouchard is a multi-disciplinary artist, and […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Laura Letinsky
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The author examines the expression and the modalities of communicating affection in a selection of Laura Letinsky’s works in which the complexity of the love relationships between men and women […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Portfolios
Authors: Serge Tisseron | Artists: Bernard Plossu
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary As we all know, the family is in crisis. Like a company that is running out of steam, it needs images to exalt its specificity. It is indisputable that affection […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers | Artists: Ghenadi Gatev
[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Observatoire 4 10 avril au 8 mai 1999
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1999] by Franck Michel To mark Mois de la Photo à Montréal and the end of the millennium, issue 48 of CVphoto takes stock of Quebec photography in the nineties.Texts by Martha Langford and Mona Hakim and an interview with Élène Tremblay by Jennifer Couëlle sketch a portrait of a decade that was particularly […]
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Élène Tremblay
[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: Ariane Thézé, Donigan Cumming, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Sylvie Readman
[Fall 1999] by Martha Langford Last time (the first time), millennial anxiety was deferred by a strategic announcement from the church fathers: the population’s fears of the apocalypse were premature, for the year to worry about was not 1000, but 1033. Logical enough, and pretty clever, for by then one could expect the people to […]
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement, Carol Dallaire, Loren Williams, Lucie Lefebvre, Nathalie Caron
[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1999-2000] by Franck Michel All objects are both bases for relations and communications, signposts for our dreams, admitted or secret, and tools that we use to assimilate the world.1 — Serge Tisseron We have not often dealt with objects in these pages. Following a suggestion by Jennifer Couëlle, we decided that it was high […]
[Winter 1999-2000]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Essays
Authors: Peter Dubé
[Winter 1999-2000] by Peter Dubé One I clear my mind to walk into an empty room; a triumph of austerity. Carefully hung photographs line the shiny walls. Each frame is carefully positioned in relation to its neighbour, gracefully distanced. The glass atop the paper does not disrupt. Landscapes in soft, though oddly brilliant, colours. A […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Robert ParkeHarrison
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Paradoxical: This is how Sylvain Campeau defines the works of Robert ParkeHarrison. It is a paradox of a Resurrection that cannot help but take part in the Apocalypse; the paradox […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Bertrand Carrière, Michel Campeau | Artists: Robert Pelletier
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Intriguing, Wordless Stories from a Strange Reliquary The multi-paneled, serial works in Curiosité – Le Chercheur de trésor were the last made by Robert Pelleter before his death. They were […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Émile Verdier | Artists: Johanne Gagnon
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Fonds culinaire is a photographic stock-taking of the physical congestion caused by kitchen objects. Since 1990, Johanne Gagnon has been working on creating a legitimate description of a kitchen from […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertien Van Manen, Pelle Kronestedt
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction de Pierre Blache, Marie-Josée Jean et Anne-Marie Ninacs, publié par Vox, centre de la diffusion de la photographie et Les 400 coups, Montréal, 1999, 233 pages.
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2000] by Jacques Doyon The city, a constant subject of photography, distills all of the issues of society. It is both centre and periphery, a nucleus made of contradictory and hierarchical strata shooting out roots to invade an ever-broader territory. In this issue, we find images that are concerned not so much with the […]
[Spring 2000]
Portfolios : GEOFFREY JAMES, NICOLE JOLICOEUR, GUY LAFONTAINE.
Focus : Une esthétique de chiffonnier (le photographe itinérant).
Reviews : Angela Grauerholz – Sententia I-LXII and Schriftbilder, Sylvie Readman – Convergences élémentaires, Edmond Couchot – La technologie dans l’art.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Guy Siou Durand, Nicole Jolicoeur, Suzie Larivée, Gary Michael Dault, Mona Hakim, Christine Desrochers.
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Essays
Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Jeffrey Thomas
[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Summary A double artistic meaning is superimposed on the notion of landscape: invented images and real cultural territories. Adopting horizontality as a visual point of reference, Civilisation by Quebecer Ivan Binet and Cold City Frieze by Iroquois Jeffrey Thomas wander nomadically […]
