Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2003] by Jacques Doyon The artworks presented in this issue make manifest the constraints intrinsic to the tools of vision. They inscribe in the image itself traces of the prostheses, framings, and postures inherent to the photographic act, and in opposition to the referential consensus they offer an exploration of the conditions of the […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION
Authors: André Clément | Artists: Jean-Philippe Lemay
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract After linking the genesis of the artist Jean-Philippe Lemay’s work to his own personal experience with early mechanisms for capturing light, André Clément analyzes the paradoxical nature of Lemay’s photographs, […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With Parages, Alain Paiement continues his research on the modes of apprehension and representation of space in his main fields of interest, dealing with photography, architecture, cartography, and painting. Here, […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION
Authors: Brian Massumi | Artists: Luc Courchesne
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The panoramic photography of Luc Courchesne introduces, within the conventions of traditional panoramic painting, formal and technical variations that significantly alter the aesthetic basis of the genre and require a […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Danielle Schwartz | Artists: Melvin Charney
[Spring 2003] Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal February 22 to April 28, 2002 Even in his earliest photographs, which he shot as a teen – portraits of alleyways, façades, and streets – Melvin Charney, the Montreal-based architect-painter-photographer-intellectual, was examining the relationship between local and international vernacular architecture and daily life. As this show reveals, the […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Ken Lum
[Spring 2003] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography 21 September 2002 – 12 January 2003 Ken Lum Works With Photography. The title of a retrospective exhibition of Lum’s photographic works at the CMCP in Ottawa this fall mimics the way Lum uses text and aptly describes his practice. Lum works with photography. Rather than exploring the […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Simon Blais du 4 septembre au 5 octobre 2002
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Art Gallery of York University, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art et The Koffler Gallery, Toronto 12 mai au 30 juin 2002 Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal 12 septembre au […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Interviews
Authors: Hubertus von Amelunxen | Artists: Alain Paiement
[Spring 2003] tangent e – Alain Paiement is the first exhibition of a series, curated by Hubertus von Amelunxen, Senior Visiting Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, that aims to establish a dialogue with the photography collection of the CCA by the creation of new works. From a selection of some two hundred photographs […]
[Summer 2003]
Portfolios : MARIK BOUDREAU, ARNI HARALDSON, STÉPHANE COUTURIER.
Reviews: Foto Biënnale Rotterdam, Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes, Geneviève Cadieux – Barcelone, Doyon-Rivest, Vos experts en gestion des utopies 2, Patrick Altman and Vid Ingelevics.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, André Lamarre, Jordan Strom, Emmanuel Hermange, Petra Halkes, Johanna Mizgala, Colette Tougas, Viviane Paradis.
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2003] by Jacques Doyon In this issue, we delve into modern and vernacular architecture in countries, regions, and cities on the margins of the industrialized West. Architecture, the landscape, and the city are captured in a distanced way. No ethnographic inquiry, no deep documentary research, few interior photographs; instead, the emphasis is on façades […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Portfolios
Authors: André Lamarre | Artists: Marik Boudreau
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With Miradors, which bears the subtitle Essai photographique sur l’érosion (Photographic essay on erosion), Marik Boudreau has produced a synthesis of her work on abandoned sites and urban ruins. An […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Jordan Strom | Artists: Arni Haraldsson
[Summer 2003] In parallel to his continuing dozen-year-long project, which addresses the livedness, context, and peculiarities of space in modernist architecture, Haraldsson’s recent photographic works focus on other grounds inherent to modernism, built space, and our relationships to them. In these recent parallel projects – the photographs of Jerusalem’s cityscapes and the Via Dolorosa, the […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Emmanuel Hermange | Artists: Stéphane Couturier
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Stéphane Couturier’s Villes génériques series is a continuation of the photographic work on urban sites under construction that he has been producing for a number of years. This archaeology of […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Bruce Mau Design, Francis Summers
[Summer 2003] March 13–April 21, 2003 Anyone looking for photographs at the fifth international Foto Biënnale Rotterdam (FBR), titled Experience, would have left the two main exhibition sites in a hurry. Photo aficionados would have had better luck at the many participating galleries and museums throughout the city that opted for more traditional exhibitions. Few […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Edward Burtynsky
[Summer 2003] National Gallery of Canada 31 January–4 May 2003 The photograph – the colour photograph in particular – seems to have taken on gigantic proportions. Monumental images are a consequence of technological advances, but, more importantly, the shifting proportions are born from the work’s relationship to its place of reception: the gallery. Scale provokes […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Geneviève Cadieux
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie René Blouin du 26 mars au 3 mai 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Viviane Paradis | Artists: Doyon-Rivest
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU, Québec du 2 mai au 1er juin 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Patrick Altman, Vid Ingelevics
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Gallery 44, Toronto du 6 février au 8 mars 2003
[Winter 2003-2004]
Portfolios : YANN MINGRAD, ALBAN KAKULYA, LINEA DI CONFINE, SCOTT WALDEN, KAREN LOVE.
Reviews: Nan Goldin, The Big Picture: Recent Acquisition from the Collection of Alison & Alan Schwartz.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Yann Mingard, Alban Kakulya, Michèle Cohen Hadria, Scott Walden, Karen Love, Colette Tougas, Christopher Brayshaw.
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2003] by Jacques Doyon Territory is one of the bases of identity. We are made of the places where we grow up and the communities into which we integrate ourselves, whether they are local or national, professional, personal, or linked to daily life. Each dimension of our pluralistic identities is materialized in concrete spaces, […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Alban Kakulya, Yann Mingard | Artists: Alban Kakulya, Yann Mingard
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract From the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea stretches a strip of land more or less six hundred kilometres wide, inhabited by more than sixty million people belonging to seven […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Guido Guidi, Marco Signorini, Paola Di Bello, Sergio Buffini, William Guerrieri
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The Linea de Confine movement in Emilie Romagne (northern Italy), both conceptual and empirical in its relationship with the territory, follows the lineage of Italian photography of the 1970s – […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Scott Walden | Artists: Scott Walden
[Winter 2003] Scott Walden’s Unsettled was produced following a summer spent in Newfoundland photographing the remnants of abandoned coastal communities, casualties of government programs seeking to centralize the new province’s scattered population. The resulting book, Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities, gathers some forty images reproduced in duotone, along with many vintage photographs […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Portfolios
Authors: Karen Love | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay, Allan MacKay, Arnaud Maggs, Barbara Woodley, Charles Gagnon, Chris Lund, Chris Mikula, David Barbour, David Cation, Duncan Cameron, Evergon, Germaine Koh, Jeffrey Thomas, Jerry Grey, Justin Wonnacott, Ken Lum, Larissa Fassler, Lynn Ball, Max Dean, Michael Schreier, Michael Snow, Paul Couvrette, Rod MacIvor, Sylvain Cousineau, Tony Fouhse, Trevor Gould
[Winter 2003] The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa, organized for the Ottawa Art Gallery by Karen Love, gathers together over 200 Ottawa portraits by 78 image-makers, presented thematically in order to provoke a range of questions about how we understand the idea of a portrait. No longer simply an accurate depiction of physical characteristics or […]
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Nan Goldin
[Winter 2003] 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 contemporain de Montréal du 22 mai au 7 septembre 2003
Ciel variable 62 - TERRITORY | IDENTITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christopher Brayshaw | Artists: Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Thomas Struth
[Winter 2003] Vancouver Art Gallery 15 March–1 September 2003 Curated by Bruce Grenville and Melanie O’Brian “With the recent acquisition of more than sixty works by sixteen internationally acclaimed artists, the Vancouver Art Gallery now holds one of the most comprehensive contemporary photo-based art collections in North America.” So begins the curatorial apologia for the […]
[Spring 2004]
Portfolios : YINKA SHONIBARE, MASSIMO GUERRERA, NIKKI S. LEE, SOREL COHEN.
Readings: Strangers – The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, Jocelyne Alloucherie – Glissements.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Eduardo Ralickas, Massimo Guerrera, Dayna McLeod, Sophie Mendelsohn, Krystel Wallet, Johanna Mizgala, Suzanne Paquet.
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2004] by Jacques Doyon The works brought together in this issue offer a variety of avenues for understanding the ways in which the mise en scène of the self is created in response to the other and how this representation is received. Their grounds of exploration are diametrically opposed: from aristocratic dandyism to the […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Eduardo Ralickas | Artists: Yinka Shonibare
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Yinka Shonibare’s works can be characterized in terms of their powerful deconstruction of Western notions of identity. In this light, the artist’s embrace of the figure of the dandy is […]