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Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR

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[Winter 2019]

From the manipulation of light (through filtering, combination, or diffraction) to work on the supporting medium (film, photographic paper, walls) to searching out pictorial compositions on city streets, a space of exploration opens up for photography around the various manifestations of colour. The result is images that challenge our perceptions. Often, the referent for these works is abstract painting, with its long tradition of experimentation, but the real also bears its share of perceptual ambiguity with regard to the impact of colours.

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Ciel variable 111 – THE SPACE OF COLOUR

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR

[Winter 2019]

From the manipulation of light (through filtering, combination, or diffraction) to work on the supporting medium (film, photographic paper, walls) to searching out pictorial compositions on city streets, a space of exploration opens up for photography around the various manifestations of colour. The result is images that challenge our perceptions. Often, the referent for these works is abstract painting, with its long tradition of experimentation, but the real also bears its share of perceptual ambiguity with regard to the impact of colours.

The Materiality of Colour

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Winter 2019] By Jacques Doyon From the manipulation of light (through decomposition, combination of layers, or diffraction effects) to work on the supporting medium (film, photographic paper, walls) to searching out pictorial compositions on city streets, a space of exploration opens up for photography around the various manifestations of colour. The result is images that […]

The Space of Couleur

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Portfolios

[Winter 2019] From the manipulation of light (through filtering, combination, or diffraction) to work on the supporting medium (film, photographic paper, walls) to searching out pictorial compositions on city streets, a space of exploration opens up for photography around the various manifestations of colour. The result is images that challenge our perceptions. Often, the referent […]

Yann Pocreau, Les surfaces de lumière — Bénédicte Ramade, The Life of Colours

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Portfolios
Authors: Bénédicte Ramade | Artists: Yann Pocreau

[Winter 2019] By Bénédicte Ramade [Excerpt] In one of his most recent series, Réponses à la peinture, Yann Pocreau establishes an interplay of brightly coloured superimpositions, transparencies, and opacities. Hot pink, mauve, navy blue, grey, burgundy, and black clash to offer the fourth “solution” in the series (Réponse à la peinture 04, 2017–18), like a […]

Jessica Eaton, Iterations (I) — Stephen Horne, System or Poem?

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Portfolios
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Jessica Eaton

[Winter 2019] By Stephen Horne [Excerpt] A number of Montreal artists are proposing ambitious responses to the dissolution of traditional artistic genres in what is clearly a “post-medium world.” Jessica Eaton is one of these, as evidenced by her recent exhibition titled Iterations (I) at Galerie Ertaskiran. In this exhibition, we face a long wall […]

Bert Danckaert, True Nature — James D. Campbell, Strange Oases of the Seen: Images of the Built World

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Bert Danckaert

[Hiver 2019] Par James D. Campbell [Extrait] The photographs of Belgian artist Bert Danckaert have been likened to abstract paintings, but the family resemblance resides more in the facture than in the finished work of art. Given his uncanny eye for the compositional “Eureka!” behind the lens, it’s as though he is using masking tape […]

Marisa Portolese, Kinship as a Practice: In the Studio with Notman — Laurie Milner

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Essays
Authors: Laurie Milner | Artists: Marisa Portolese

[Winter 2019] By Laurie Milner [Excerpt] Kinship, broadly defined, is a core concept in Montreal artist Marisa Portolese’s photographic practice. We see kinship, in the context of family relations, enacted in Antonia’s Garden (2007–11), a series of portraits, still lifes, and landscapes that traces the psychic effects of trauma and the will to heal in […]

Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie. Traces of the Chaos — Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Debi Cornwall

[Winter 2019] By Érika Nimis [Excerpt] Every summer since 2010, Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie has literally pushed art photography into parks and forests and onto beaches, inviting visitors to a true treasure hunt along the legendary Route 132. During each edition, this photographic and human adventure is punctuated by a number […]

Camerart. Art from the Point of View of Photography — Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Charles Gagnon

[Winter 2019] By Pierre Dessureault [Excerpt] The exhibition Camerart, produced by Galerie Optica and presented in Montreal from December 16, 1974, to January 14, 1975, was a pivotal event in the photography/art debate in Quebec. Although a place in the art market had been carved out for photography in the late 1960s, museums were proceeding […]

L’imaginaire radical : le contrat social — Daniel Fiset

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset | Artists: Milo Rau

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. VOX, Centre de l’image contemporaine Du 13 septembre au 15 décembre 2018 Par Daniel Fiset (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available […]

Regards critiques et nouvelle photographie — James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

[Winter 2019] Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Montreal May 30–August 26, 2018 Par James D. Campbell [Excerpt] “The world has become self-referring. You know this. This thing has seeped into the texture of the world. The world for thousands of years was our escape, was our refuge. Men hid from themselves in the world. We […]

PHOS 2018 — Claire Moeder

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Maryse Goudreau

[Winter 2019] Matane Du 1er au 16 septembre 2018 Par Claire Moeder (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here : Ciel variable 111 – THE SPACE OF COLOUR ] Purchase this article

Raqs Media Collective, Everything Else Is Ordinary — Ariane Noël De Tilly

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Raqs Media Collective

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Everything Else Is Ordinary K21 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Allemagne Du 21 avril au 12 août 2018 Par Ariane Noël De Tilly (French only) [See the printed or digital version of […]

Taysir Batniji, Home Away From Home — Michèle Hadria

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Taysir Batniji

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hambourg, 2019 Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, 2018 Aperture Foundation, NY, 2018 Par Michèle Hadria (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete […]

Jocelyn Robert, Coïncidences — Cynthia Fecteau

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Cynthia Fecteau | Artists: Jocelyn Robert

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Michel Guimont, Québec Du 29 avril au 27 mai 2018 Par Cynthia Fecteau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here […]

Pierre Blache, Les lieux suspendus — Franck Michel

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Pierre Blache

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. La Castiglione, Montréal Du 16 mai au 16 juin 2018 Par Franck Michel (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here : […]

Martha Langford (dir.), Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World — Erika Wicky

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews
Authors: Erika Wicky

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017 Par Erika Wicky (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here : Ciel variable 111 – THE SPACE […]

Clémence Cottard Hachem et Nour Salamé (dir.), Sur la photographie au Liban — Claudia Polledri

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Kaph Books – Presses du réel, 2018 Par Claudia Polledri (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here : Ciel variable […]

New & Worthy

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews

[Winter 2019] [Excerpt] Livres photographiques Marie-Jeanne Musiol, La forêt radieuse : un herbier énergétique, Les éditions Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal, 2018, 224 p., 385 photographies n/b deux tons, couverture rigide, fr. Serge Clément, Archipel, Occurrence et Éditions Loco, Montréal/Paris, 2018, 191 p., 102 photographies, couverture rigide, texte de Zoë Tousignant, fr. et angl.   […]

Les Rencontres d’Arles. Warm and Sunny with Possibility of Showers! — Bruno Chalifour

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Interviews
Authors: Bruno Chalifour

[Winter 2019] [The Geopolitics of French Institutional Photographic Culture as of Summer 2018] Par Bruno Chalifour [Excerpt] A year from its fiftieth anniversary, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie (the festival’s original name), now simply Rencontres de la Photographie, hosted its usual huge program, composed of more than fifty exhibitions in thirty-six sites, from July […]

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