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 […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Massimo Guerrera | Artists: Massimo Guerrera
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Nikki S. Lee
[Spring 2004] par Dayna McLeod In “Image #6” of Nikki Lee’s The Punk Project series, two punks are seated on the cement steps of an innocuous building. He has a closely cropped mohawk and wears camouflage pants with a leather jacket thrown across his lap. She wears ripped net stockings over striped tights, and a […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Portfolios
Authors: Krystel Wallet, Sophie Mendelsohn | Artists: Sorel Cohen
[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 During a stay in Paris, Sorel Cohen set up her camera in different psychoanalysts’ offices. The result was a series of images around the analyst’s couch, the body that we […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Book Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala
[Spring 2004] Earle, Edward W., et al., eds. (New York: International Center for Photography and Göttigen: Steidl Publishers, 2003). ICP Exhibition dates: 12 September–30 November 2003. The International Center for Photography offered its first foray into the proliferation of international art festivals with its recent exhibition, Strangers. It is somewhat surprising that New York does […]
Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Book Reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau (dir.) Fondation J. Armand Bombardier Valcourt, 2003, 97 p.
[Summer 2004]
Portfolios : GWENAËL BÉLANGER, LOUIS JONCAS, JASON SALAVON.
Focus : La disparition, Maintenant. Images du temps présent, FAKING DEATH Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination.
Reviews : The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Alexandre Castonguay, Digitale, Éveil / Fabulation, Peter Greenaway, Thomas Kneubühler, Bettina Hoffmann, Spoilsport / Trouble-fête, David Rokeby.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Marie-Ève Charron, George Bogardi, Elizabeth Menon, Suzanne Paquet, Serge Allaire, Hélène Samson.
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2004] by Jacques Doyon The optical devices, the renderings of light and perspectives, and the compositional modes inherited from the pictorial tradition form, even today, one of the foundations of our modes of representation, including for media based on the recording of the real and on digitization. The search for artistic legitimacy has long […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Ève Charron | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Gwenaël Bélanger’s series Chutes follows in the spirit of early-twentieth-century studies on transcription of movement. Each series uses a sequential modality to reconstitute the trajectory of everyday objects abandoned in […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: George Bogardi | Artists: Louis Joncas
[Summer 2004] The Detritus series is an ongoing investigation of Joncas’s material existence, informed by still-life painting and vanitas. The series depicts the detritus of domestic life and everyday survival. It questions rituals and banal chores – such as cleaning, eating, grooming, and consuming – that leave behind an endless trail of detritus. The objects […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: Elizabeth Menon | Artists: Jason Salavon
[Summer 2004] Jason Salavon employs computers and code to transform material appropriated from popular culture. His work ranges from digital video installations to Web-based interactive works and works on computers to create paintings that blur the line between manmade and machine aesthetic. His photo and video-based print works cultivate a dual aesthetic of painterly veils […]
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Wojciech Prazmowski
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Photographies de la Communauté française de Belgique, de Pologne, du Québec Organisé par le centre VU, Québec 16 janvier au 15 février 2004
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire, Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Dennis Adams
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maintenant. Images du temps présent sous la direction de Vincent Lavoie Le Mois de la photo à Montréal 2003, 320 p.
Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Penny Cousineau-Levine McGill-Queen’s University Press Montréal/Kingston 2003
[Fall 2004]
Portfolios : ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ, RAYMONDE APRIL.
Focus : Between Heaven and Earth, the Loci and the Cosmos, Angela Grauerholz et ses livres (extraits), Raymonde April – Bifurcations. Notes et matériaux.
Reviews : The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Alexandre Castonguay, Digitale, Éveil / Fabulation, Peter Greenaway, Thomas Kneubühler, Bettina Hoffmann, Spoilsport / Trouble-fête, David Rokeby.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Cheryl Simon, Colette Tougas, Chen Tamir, Vid Ingelevics, Sylvain Campeau, Michel Hellman, Colin Burnett, SB Edwards, Marie Fraser, Jessica Fung, Jean-Claude Rochefort.
Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2004] by Jacques Doyon This issue contains examples of current portrait practices that can be associated with various sub-categories of the genre: group of young people posing in the studio, series of self-portraits inspired by a play on the mask, the figure of the artist in the presence of his working materials. As different […]
Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Christine Bernier | Artists: Pascal Grandmaison
[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Pascal Grandmaison’s photographic and videographic work is often defined as renewing the concept of the portrait. This text explains that the innovation of Grandmaison’s portraits is situated more in the […]
Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Lyne Crevier | Artists: Hicham Benohoud
[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In his series of self-portraits Version soft, the Moroccan artist Hicham Benohoud has metamorphosed his features by “martyrizing” his head in harsh photographs recalling those in Photomatons or mug shots. […]
Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Portfolios
Authors: Reinhard Braun | Artists: Klaus Scherübel
[Fall 2004] In his series Untitled (The Artist at Work), Klaus Scherübel presents a paradoxical system of references to myths and phantasms of modernism and to descriptive contexts of current art. To take the title or the visual appearance as a starting point already implies taking part in a discourse that is subverted by the […]
Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Adad Hannah, Carl Bouchard, Martin Dufrasne, Vito Acconci
[Fall 2004] March 4–May 22, 2004 Dazibao, Montréal Performance and Photography: POINT & SHOOT is a three-part exhibition project curated by Michèle Thériault and France Choinière that examines the photograph as performance prop, subject, and object, and the photographic process as performative act, witness, and documentarian. Shown at Dazibao in March, April, and May 2004, […]
Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Sadko Hadzihasanovic
[Fall 2004] 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 avril au 2 mai 2004
Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Book Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim
[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
[Spring 2005] + CIEL VARIABLE 66B – RAYMONDE APRIL [May 2005]
Portfolios : ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ, RAYMONDE APRIL.
Focus : Between Heaven and Earth, the Loci and the Cosmos, Angela Grauerholz et ses livres (extraits).
Reviews : The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Alexandre Castonguay, Digitale, Éveil / Fabulation, Peter Greenaway, Thomas Kneubühler, Bettina Hoffmann, Spoilsport / Trouble-fête, David Rokeby.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Cheryl Simon, Colette Tougas, Chen Tamir, Vid Ingelevics, Sylvain Campeau, Michel Hellman, Colin Burnett, SB Edwards, Marie Fraser, Jessica Fung, Jean-Claude Rochefort.
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue of CV ciel variable is extraordinary in more than one way. Our portfolio pages are devoted exclusively to presenting a work that we feel is particularly important, Reading Room for the Working Artist, Angela Grauerholz’s most recent piece. This issue also includes an insert, produced in collaboration with […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Essays
Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
by Cheryl Simon The relation of language to the world is one of analogy rather than of signification; or rather, [the value of words] as signs and their duplicating function are superimposed; they speak the heaven and the earth of which they are the image. Language possesses a symbolic function; but since the disaster at […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] There is no question of inventing the flaneuse: the essential point is that such a character was rendered impossible by the sexual divisions of the nineteenth century. Nor is it appropriate to reject totally the existing literature on modernity, for the experiences it describes certainly defined a good deal of the lives of […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Essays
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 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 this essay, the author stresses two characteristics of Angela Grauerholz’s photographic corpus: the fortuitous and the systematic. The author highlights the important role played by desire on the part […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] World-view and self-image are indissolubly intertwined with each other. The way man sees the world is the way he sees himself; the way he conceives himself is the way he conceives the world. Alterations in his view of the world lead to alterations in his view of himself and vice versa. ⎯ Christopher […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Portfolios
Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] The question today is, however – perhaps has always been – how somebody can appropriate (in fact steal) somebody else’s doing and yet make something of it that is uniquely his own. In other words, the question is not what are the models to be followed or that are being followed, but what […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vid Ingelevics | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay
[Spring 2005] The Truth Will Be Known when the Last Witness Is Dead: Documents from the Fakhouri File at the Atlas Group Archive AGYU at Prefix ICA, Toronto, September 16–November 27, 2004 At the heart of history is a critical discourse that is antithetical to spontaneous memory. History is perpetually suspicious of memory, and its […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Chen Tamir, Vid Ingelevics | Artists: Atlas group, Walid Raad
[Spring 2005] I Was Overcome by a Momentary Panic at the Thought that They Were Right: Documents from the Nassar Files in the Atlas Group Archive Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 15 September–14 November, 2004 Mortar shells were almost a daily occurrence the year I was posted in Lebanon as part of my service […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain, Montréal du 17 juin au 11 septembre 2004
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michel Hellman | Artists: Mark Lewis, Mary Kunuk
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. commissaire : Marie Fraser Vox, Montréal 28 avril au 16 octobre et 8 mai au 10 juillet 2004
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colin Burnett | Artists: Peter Greenaway
[Spring 2005] Tulse Luper Suitcases (Parts I–III, 2003–04) The Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema October 14-24, 2004 Even under “normal” circumstances, Peter Greenaway is a “difficult” director. With Tulse Luper Suitcases, the filmmaker makes the viewer leap out of trenches to confront three films totalling seven hours in length – and not just any three, […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: SB Edwards | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler
[Spring 2005] Office 2000 Skol, Montréal du 3 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 The vivid night shots feature generic office-tower exteriors, often providing direct views into the cubicles within. The similarity between the buildings is eased by the variation in range from the subjects. The more distant vantages confront us with the sheer might and […]
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Marie Fraser | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Spoilsport / Trouble-fête Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Montréal du 15 juillet au 26 septembre 2004
Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jessica Fung | Artists: David Rokeby
[Spring 2005] Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario 25 June to 17 October 2004 David Rokeby is perhaps one of Canada’s most important figures in the art world – certainly in the electronic art world. He has received the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, presented at the Venice Biennale, and the Governor General’s Award in Visual and […]
[May 2005] EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS Purchase this issue See also Ciel variable 66 – ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ
Ciel variable 66B - RAYMONDE APRIL | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Raymonde April
[Spring 2005] by Jacques Doyon This issue of CV ciel variable is extraordinary in more than one way. Our portfolio pages are devoted exclusively to presenting a work that we feel is particularly important, Reading Room for the Working Artist, Angela Grauerholz’s most recent piece. This issue also includes an insert, produced in collaboration with […]
Ciel variable 66B - RAYMONDE APRIL | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Claude Rochefort | Artists: Raymonde April
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The author observes, first, that the artist maintains an emotional relationship with nature and that an ontology of the landscape is manifested in her work because there is a profound […]
[Spring 2005]
Portfolios : ADAD HANNAH, FIONA TAN, TETSUOMI ANZAI, STAN DENNISTON, DAVID CLAERBOUT.
Reviews : Raymonde April, Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Manon Labrecque, Rodney Graham.
Readings : Michael Snow, Photography – Crisis of History, Le troisième œil, Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine.
Authors : Will Straw, Vincent Bonin, Cheryl Simon, Cheryl Sourkes, Valérie Lamontagne, Randolph Jordan, Serge Bérard, Johanna Mizgala, Sylvain Campeau, Jean-Pierre Vidal, Tetsuomi Anzai, Mario Côté, Hélène Samson, Bernard Lamarche.
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Editorial
Authors: Cheryl Simon
[Spring 2005] by Cheryl Simon The photo-based installation projects featured in this special issue of Ciel variable exhibit a paradoxical sense of temporality. Although all are presented as time-based installations, hence moving imagery, the prevailing temporal logic characterizing this body of work is that of stillness. For this reason, the temporal sensibility here is more […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Will Straw | Artists: Adad Hannah
[Spring 2005] On the very threshold of immobility, Adad Hannah’s works are initially interpreted by our eyes as being static images – only to eventually reveal subtle movements that betray their nature as works of video rather than of still photography. Recalling a history of negotiated relationships between the static and moving image, these revelations […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: Fiona Tan
[Spring 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 installation Countenance (2001), Fiona Tan uses film to quote the archiving and photographing methods behind August Sander’s photographic recension project Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Men of the twentieth […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Tetsuomi Anzai
[Spring 2005] Each the product of a very particular combination of media generated imagery, Tetsuomi Anzai’s mixed media installation works offer unique perspectives on a world increasingly apprehended through pictures. Whether stills enlivened through video animation techniques, video loops upturned to approximate the live streaming of camera obscura technology, or satellite renderings rolled, spun and […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Cheryl Sourkes | Artists: Stan Denniston
[Spring 2005] Using long, continuous video takes and the static camera position of the still photographer to capture what at first appears to be inert subject matter–geological formations, deserted highways and other abandoned sites—Stan Denniston’s ‘fixed focus’ movies invoke an uncanny temporal sensibility. Subject movement is minimal and unpredictable, defined as it is by the […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Valérie Lamontagne | Artists: David Claerbout
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The author considers David Claerbout’s work in relation to the overlapping histories of cinema and photography and suggests that the etymological and perceptive frictions that have developed between these media […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Essays
Authors: Randolf Jordan | Artists: David Claerbout, NomIg
[Spring 2005] by Randolph Jordan Frame-by-frame analysis confirms that beneath the apparent non-movement of the plant world, the most awful and violent things are brewing: heart-rending torsions, horrible intertwinings, endless growth . . . such is Man. No moment is ever as intense as when there is no more outward bodily agitation to hide the infinitesimal speed […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Raymonde April
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre culturel Yvonne L. Bombardier, Valcourt (Québec), du 19 octobre 2004 au 20 février 2005
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala
[Spring 2005] International Center for Photography, New York 17 September – 28 November 2004 From its earliest days, photography has been used to bear witness to acts of violence and inhumanity. Its strength lies in the power to capture events as they transpire, to cast these events in a mantle of truth, and to circulate […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Roberto Pellegrinuzzi
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Thérèse Dion Art contemporain, Montréal du 3 septembre au 2 octobre 2004
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Manon Labrecque
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi, du 9 septembre au 10 octobre 2004.
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Tetsuomi Anzai | Artists: Rodney Graham
[Spring 2005] March 30–June 27, 2004 Art Gallery of Ontario Earlier this year, the Art Gallery of Ontario played host to a major retrospective of Rodney Graham’s work, featuring over twenty-five works from an artistic practice dating back to the 1970s. While much of the focus was on his recent film and video installations, also […]
Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Mario Côté | Artists: Michael Snow
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michael Snow: Digital Snow Collection Anarchives Collection Anarchives (sous la direction d’Anne-Marie Duguet) Paris, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002
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 […]
