Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson, Joan Fontcuberta
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Photography. Crisis of History sous la direction de Joan Fontcuberta, Barcelone, Actar, 2004, 253 p.
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Bernard Lamarche | Artists: Édouard Isidore Buguet, Eugène Thiebault
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Le troisième oeil. La photographie et l’occulte Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine, Denis Canguilhem, Sophie Schmit Paris, Gallimard, 2004, 287 p.
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine Éditions J’ai Vu, collection L’opposite, Québec, 2004, 111 p.
[Summer 2005]
Portfolios : MELVIN CHARNEY, BERTRAND CARRIÈRE, LIZA NGUYEN, DENIS FARLEY.
Reviews : Claude-Philippe Benoît, Thomas Demand, Karen Henderson, Michel de Broin et Ève K. Tremblay.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Anne Bénichou, Gary Michael Dault, Octave Debary, Johanna Mizgala, Suzanne Paquet, Johanna Mizgala, Sylvain Campeau, Natalie Olanick.
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2005] by Jacques Doyon The works in this issue fall under the sign of things that are beyond comprehension. The list of catastrophic events that have left bitter traces on our democratic ideals in the last half-century is long. Current events dealt with in contemporary visual arts bring to mind some of these unimaginable […]
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Anne Bénichou | Artists: Melvin Charney
[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In the early 1970s, Melvin Charney began a work in progress, UN DICTIONNAIRE…, a collection of press-agency photographs, published in newspapers, in which buildings and cities involved in current events […]
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Bertrand Carrière
[Summer 2005] In three recent interrelated works, Bertrand Carrière explores ways of expressing the memories embedded in the landscape at the site of the Dieppe Raid of 1942. The Caux series constitutes a long meditation on the sense of purposelessness and loss embodied by that very landscape. It was preceded by Jubilee, an installation in […]
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Octave Debary | Artists: Liza Nguyen
[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract What meaning should be given to the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon? This text analyzes how Souvenirs du Vietnam, a work by Liza Nguyen, offers […]
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Denis Farley
[Summer 2005] In his Irradiations series as in his earlier works, Denis Farley partakes in an ongoing investigation of the nature of photography as a self-conscious gesture. In a string of works produced following a site-specific group exhibition in the Canadian government’s once top-secret underground bunker, and now a decommissioned relic of the Cold War, […]
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Claude-Philippe Benoît
[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Lilian Rodriguez Du 19 mars au 23 avril 2005
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Thomas Demand
[Summer 2005] The Museum of Modern Art, New York 4 March – 30 May, 2005 Looking at one of Thomas Demand’s photographs of a carefully replicated environment provokes a strange sensation of simultaneous recognition and disavowal. The composition contains familiar objects, and it seems familiar because it stems from seeing a similar image in another […]
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay, Michel de Broin
[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Honeymoons Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain, Du 6 novembre au 18 décembre 2004
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Natalie Olanick | Artists: Karen Henderson
[Summer 2005] Optica Centre for Contemporary Arts, Montréal March 5 to April 9, 2005 There has always been a quiet elegance to Karen Henderson’s works. The artist, generally working with photo-based installations, is interested in the creation of carefully executed, labour-intensive works, in which consideration of the materials used moves beyond the object itself and […]
[Fall 2005]
Portfolios : SYN-, PIERRE GRANCHE, CHERYL SOURKES.
Reviews : Instandstillnessence, Donigan Cumming – Moving Pictures, Damage Done. Materializing the Photographic Image, The Venice Biennale : 51st International Art Exhibition.
Readings : André Rouillé, Emmanuelle Léonard, David Tomas, Peter MacCallum.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Johanne Sloan, Alain Laframboise, Jessica Wyman, Vincent Bonin, David Balzer, Kim Simon, Jean-François Bélisle, Johanna Mizgala, Vincent Lavoie, Pavel Pavlov, Gary Michael Dault.
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue is about our ways of apprehending, representing, and acting in the contemporary city. The works presented here are all characterized by the inclusion within the images of a multiplicity of points of view and a distinct process of observation. They examine different aspects of an urbanity that is […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Johanne Sloan | Artists: SYN–
[Fall 2005] By Johanne Sloan SYN–’s Prospectus (2003–04)1 points to contradictions in the relationship between contemporary artists and the city. This sequence of eighty-one photographs shows the SYN– members wandering around and engaged in play at various locations in the “hyperbuilding” otherwise known as Montreal’s underground city. Their sensibility might be akin to that of […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Alain Laframboise | Artists: Pierre Granche
[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Highlighting the similarities between the convex mirror used by Pierre Granche in his series of photographs and Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1524), the mirror that Brunelleschi used in […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Portfolios
Authors: Jessica Wyman | Artists: Cheryl Sourkes
[Fall 2005] Cheryl Sourkes has been surfing and capturing webcam images for several years, and her work serves to articulate for viewers some of the ponderous questions that emerge in seeing the world differently through this particular technology. Sourkes’s current practice is not one of making images so much as it is one of selecting […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: John Oswald
[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal du 7 avril au 14 août 2005
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Donigan Cumming | Artists: David Balzer
[Fall 2005] April 9–May 22, 2005 Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art The word “harrowing” readily pops to mind when viewing Donigan Cumming’s work. This word has broad, stock associations with both individual and empathic suffering: a lengthy battle with an illness, one’s experience nursing a friend through an illness, and, perhaps most oddly, an affecting, […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Kim Simon | Artists: Jennifer Givogue
[Fall 2005] Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto May 5–June 11, 2005 Photographer and curator Vid Ingelevics is becoming known for his smart and poetic exhibitions. His installations often form wonderful intertexts, implicitly exploring the complex relationship between photography, its institutions of collection and dissemination, and the production and retention of knowledge. On its surface, […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Caio Reisewitz, George Hadjimichalis, Natalija Vujosevic, Oscar Muñoz, Rebecca Belmore
[Fall 2005] Venice, Italy June 12 – November 6, 2005 The cutting edge of today’s art ought to be the stuff of tomorrow, or so the contemporary belief goes. A visit to the fifty-first edition of the Venice Biennale highlights the importance and complexity of the relationship between the two elements of this belief: time […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Vincent Lavoie
[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. André Rouillé : La photographie Paris, Gallimard 2005
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard
[Fall 2005] Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies Montréal, Occurrence 2005 Emmanuelle Léonard has exhibited a growing body of work since 1996, steadily evolving into a contemporary photographer whose next project is eagerly anticipated. Her complex images not only explore the theoretical terrain between photographer, subject, and viewer, but also serve to disentangle pervasively […]
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Pavel Pavlov | Artists: David Tomas
[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. David Tomas:A Blinding Flash of Light Photography Between Disciplines and Media Dazibao 2004
Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Peter MacCallum
[Fall 2005] Peter MacCallum:Material World YYZ Books and Museum London 2004 Since the late 1960s, Toronto photographer Peter MacCallum has been devoting a great deal of his time to documenting the work of other visual artists. It has been a long, exacting sojourn in alternate sensibilities that might well have exhausted anyone less determined than […]
[Winter 2005-2006]
Portfolios : MICHAEL FLOMEN, MARIE-JEANNE MUSIOL, CLAUDIA FÄHRENKEMPER, PAUL LACROIX.
Reviews : Le mois de la photo à Montréal: Image and Imagination, Dieter Appelt Forth Bridge – Cinema. Metric Space, Iain Baxter&, Nobuyoshi Araki, Territoires urbains.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, James D. Campbell, Sylvain Campeau, AnnThomas, Lisanne Nadeau, Anna Carlevaris, Ann Thomas, Serge Bérard, Cyril Thomas, Serge Bérard.
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2005-2006] by Jacques Doyon Seeing better, seeing farther; disrupting the representation, dissolving it: these approaches seem contradictory. Yet, paradoxically, they hew to a single frontier: that of the visible and representable, that of the limit of our capacity to see and our perceptual expectations. They meet in a common exploration of light as a […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Michael Flomen
[Winter 2005-2006] Michael Flomen’s works encompass an abstract, oneiric space that we cannot easily reference, for it is openly ambiguous, hovering somewhere between the dream and the waking moment. Whether rain and snowfalls registering at night on handmade photograms (Teeming), the evidentiary bioluminescence of fireflies caught on photographic flypaper in the dead of night as […]
Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol
[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Campeau examines the scope and consequences of what seems to be implied by the possibility that objects can produce their own visible radiation, thereby challenging the very notion of photographic […]