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Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED

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[Summer 2019]

Three recent exhibitions offer a rare look at the act of collecting. In Archipel, Serge Clément presents a collection of all the photobooks that he has made – books that can be seen as sequencings of collections of his own images. Bertrand Carrière immerses himself in the collection of the Cinémathèque québécoise, focusing on film noir, extracting paradigmatic images and exploring the plays on temporality inherent to the crossfade. Finally, the collection of Jack Lazare represents a rare example of a collection patiently assembled over the years to reflect a melancholic vision of a world in difficulty.

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Ciel variable 112 – COLLECTIONS REVISITED

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED

[Summer 2019]

Three recent exhibitions offer a rare look at the act of collecting. In Archipel, Serge Clément presents a collection of all the photobooks that he has made – books that can be seen as sequencings of collections of his own images. Bertrand Carrière immerses himself in the collection of the Cinémathèque québécoise, focusing on film noir, extracting paradigmatic images and exploring the plays on temporality inherent to the crossfade. Finally, the collection of Jack Lazare represents a rare example of a collection patiently assembled over the years to reflect a melancholic vision of a world in difficulty.

Assembling Images

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Summer 2019] By Jacques Doyon Three recent exhibitions, by two artists and one collector, offer a rare look at the act of collecting. The thematic section in this issue features different types of collections of images, all of which involve a rereading, a recontextualization: highlighting a way of working that traverses and structures an artist’s […]

Collections Revisited

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Portfolios

[Summer 2019] Three recent exhibitions offer a rare look at the act of collecting. In Archipel, Serge Clément presents a collection of all the photobooks that he has made – books that can be seen as sequencings of collections of his own images. Bertrand Carrière immerses himself in the collection of the Cinémathèque québécoise, focusing […]

Serge Clément, Archipel — Alexis Desgagnés, Geography of an Archipelago

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Portfolios
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Serge Clément

June 14, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — By Alexis Desgagnés. In 2014 in Quebec City, photographer Serge Clément and I presented the exhibition Constellations, composed of a corpus of photobooks drawn from Clément’s impressive collection…

Bertrand Carrière, Tout ceci est impossible — Sylvain Campeau, Time is Impossible

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

March 8, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — Bertrand Carrière has had a long relationship with the film world. Before establishing himself as an artist, he took many pictures as a soundstage photographer. But such images must not be seen solely as the result of a professional practice that imposed frameworks and constraints on the creation of images…

Collection Lazare : États d’âmes, esprit des lieux — Colette Tougas, Portraits of Families with Nature (Still Life or Other)

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Portfolios
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Nicolas Baier

[Summer 2019] By Colette Tougas One purpose of the exhibition devoted to the Lazare collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was to highlight thirtythree photographs that have been donated to the institution by Montreal collector Jack Lazare. To these donated photographs were added many others on loan from Lazare, adding up to an […]

Milo Rau, Truth and Justice: The Congo Tribunal — Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Milo Rau

June 14, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — By Pierre Dessureault. The International Institute of Political Murder was created in 2007 by Swiss director, artist, and filmmaker Milo Rau. Since then, Rau has produced more than fifty plays, films, performances, and video installations on social and political realities, most of them complex and controversial…

Paris Photo, A Game of Memory — Claudia Polledri

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Essays
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Daido Moriyama

March 28, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — Context. The 22nd edition of the Paris Photo international photography fair took place November 8–11, 2018, in Paris. During the four-day fair, crowds of artists, gallery owners, collectors, publishers, curators, journalists, and photography lovers bustled through the Grand Palais, which had become a labyrinth of images organized by Paris Photo director Florence Bourgeois and artistic director Christoph Wiesner…

Anthropocene Fatigue: Edward Burtynsky’s Strategy of Collapse — Bénédicte Ramade

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Essays
Authors: Bénédicte Ramade | Artists: Edward Burtynsky

[Summer 2019] By Bénédicte Ramade [Excerpt] From the start it seems taken for granted: Edward Burtynsky’s Anthropocene at the National Gallery of Canada will be technophilic.1 At every opportunity. Even as stratigraphers are still discussing the contours of this geological epoch attributed to human activity, still bitterly arguing over the relevance of the very word […]

Nathan Lyons, An Exploration of Photography as Visual Language — Bruno Chalifour

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Essays
Authors: Bruno Chalifour | Artists: Nathan Lyons

[Summer 2019] By Bruno Chalifour [Excerpt] Some two years after Nathan Lyons’s death, on August 30, 2016, the George Eastman Museum (GEM) is presenting an overview of the life’s work of one of the central influencers of American photography in the second half of the twentieth century:1 a photographer exhibited in the most prestigious museums […]

Julian Rosefeldt — James Campbell

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Julian Rosefeldt

[Summer 2019] Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Oct. 20, 2018–January 20, 2019 By James Campbell [Excerpt] Whether playing a senior CIA agent (Hanna, 2011), Elf Queen Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings, 2001 2002, 2003), or a formerly rich New York socialite on the move (Blue Jasmine, 2013), Cate Blanchett has demonstrated her acting chops […]

Elena Perlino — Claudia Polledri

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Elena Perlino

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal 2 novembre – 2 décembre 2018 By Claudia Polledri (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. […]

Vincent Meessen, Blues Klair — Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Vincent Meessen

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montréal Commissaire : Michèle Thériault Du 17 novembre 2018 au 23 février 2019 By Érika Nimis (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the […]

Denis Farley, Aux confins du visible — Fanny Bieth

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Fanny Bieth | Artists: Denis Farley

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.     Travaux récents/Recent Work La Castiglione, Montréal Du 14 novembre au 15 décembre 2018 By Fanny Bieth (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the […]

Thomas Kneubühler, Absence | Landing Sites — Patrick Brian Smith

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Patrick Brian Smith | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

[Summer 2019] Absence Patrick Mikhail Gallery November 10, 2018–January 19, 2019 Landing Sites Dazibao November 15, 2018–January 26, 2019 By Patrick Brian Smith [Excerpt] Thomas Kneubühler has always been concerned with developing new ways of visualizing – and critiquing – power formations and their related infrastructures in the late-capitalist, globalized world. From Private Property (2006), […]

Velibor Božović, In seeing, there is no right no wrong — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Velibor Božović

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Patrick Mikhail, Montréal Du 5 janvier au 16 février 2019 By Sylvain Campeau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here […]

Valérian Mazataud, Grand Nord — Sophie Bertrand

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sophie Bertrand

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Montréal Du 28 février au 6 avril 2019 By Sophie Bertrand (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. […]

Basma Alsharif — Jill Glessing

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Basma Alsharif

[Summer 2019] Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto February 14–April 14, 2019 By Jill Glessing [Excerpt] Basma Alsharif asks a question for our time. Increasing human migration prompted by wars and climate change means, for many, an experience of cultural displacement. Born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents who had fled Israeli occupation, Alsharif migrated first […]

Martha Rosler, Irrespective — Ariane Noël de Tilly

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Martha Rosler

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jewish Museum, New York 2 novembre 2018 – 3 mars 2019 By Ariane Noël de Tilly (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. […]

New & Worthy

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Book Reviews

[Summer 2019] [Excerpt]   Sophie Hackett, Andrea Kunard, Urs Stahel (dir.), Anthropocène. Burtynsky, Baichwal, De Pencier, Toronto/Fredericton, Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario/Goose Lane Edtions, 2018, 250 p. Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin (ed.), The Work of Wind: Land, Mississauga/Berlin, Blackwood Gallery/K. Verlag, 2018, 336 p. Myriam Jacob-Allard, T’envoler, Montréal, Dazibao, 2019, 38 p. Isabelle Hayeur, […]

María Wills Londoño, MOMENTA 2019: The Life of Things — Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Interviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon, María Wills Londoño

October 9, 2019 [originally published in CV113 in Summer 2019] — María Wills Londoño (Colombia) is a researcher and exhibition curator whose principal areas of expertise are the unstable nature of the contemporary image and innovative points of view of the urban face of Latin America…

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