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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 59 - ARCHIVES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2002] by Jacques Doyon This issue features the works of contemporary artists whose work involves the photographic archive. Because of its documentary aspect, photography was put to use in archives early and became an important component. In fact, it was this aspect that long kept photography from being recognized by the art world. Paradoxically, […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2002] by Jacques Doyon Evergon, Marisa Portolese, and Olivier Christinat offer three very different ways of presenting the female body. Juxtaposed as they are here, they both encounter and confront beauty and age, attraction and maintaining distance, self-affirmation and abandonment in the other’s gaze. Nude or in intimate garb, all of these women are […]
Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2001-2002] by Jacques Doyon In spite of the diversity of their modalities and subjects, the works brought together here are notable for their common interest in the sutures and marks in the landscape, the zones where significant transformations and their underlying issues are revealed surreptitiously or, on the contrary, concealed. These fault lines, or […]
Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2001-2002] by Jacques Doyon The works in this issue will seem, at first glance, diametrically opposed to each other. They involve very different subjects, from monumental architecture (Carl Zimmerman) to the world of collectors (Veli Granõ) to the ruins and waste of consumer society (Ramona Ramlochand). And their visual means – their modes of […]
Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2001] by Jacques Doyon The terrorist attack of September 11 took the impact of the media image to new heights, with the inclusion in its scenario of the moment when various cameras enabled the entire world to witness the event live and left us for hours in fear of what might come next. For […]
Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2001] by Jacques Doyon The photographs of gardens and landscapes presented here are not about looking at plants, flowers, and trees for themselves, in the sense of botanical documentation. Rather, they attempt to highlight what rules over the arrangement of or investment in such places and what is at play in our reading of […]
Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2000-2001] by Jacques Doyon Identity is a precarious notion, constantly being redefined, at the intersection of many dimensions of belonging and identification. It is a self-definition, by and through the view of others. Identity is always a question of positionings and negotiations. The part of it that may seem to be inherent or original […]
Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2000] by Jacques Doyon The way we glance at objects in a familiar environment could be the connection between the photographic works assembled for this issue. Whether these objects are contained within the household, a workplace, or a small business, they inhabit and condition our spaces and ways of life. For Nicolas Baier, the […]
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
by Jacques Doyon Travel is an inherent aspect of contemporary civilization. Whatever the distance, we have to see other places. We are all tourists, in one way or another, always foreigners to someone or some society, which we observe with mixed feelings of curiosity, empathy, rejection, or fear. The image has become the heart of […]
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2000] by Jacques Doyon The city, a constant subject of photography, distills all of the issues of society. It is both centre and periphery, a nucleus made of contradictory and hierarchical strata shooting out roots to invade an ever-broader territory. In this issue, we find images that are concerned not so much with the […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1999-2000] by Franck Michel All objects are both bases for relations and communications, signposts for our dreams, admitted or secret, and tools that we use to assimilate the world.1 — Serge Tisseron We have not often dealt with objects in these pages. Following a suggestion by Jennifer Couëlle, we decided that it was high […]
Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1999] by Franck Michel To mark Mois de la Photo à Montréal and the end of the millennium, issue 48 of CVphoto takes stock of Quebec photography in the nineties.Texts by Martha Langford and Mona Hakim and an interview with Élène Tremblay by Jennifer Couëlle sketch a portrait of a decade that was particularly […]
Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Editorial
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle
[Summer 1999] by Jennifer Couëlle It serves sometimes friendship, sometimes love. It is synonymous with both tenderness and desire. It conveys kindness and can lead to passion, but also subsists in simple pleasure. For affection, above all, means interest: in a person, a place, a climate, a phenomenon, and – why not? – an object. […]
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Spring 1999] by Franck Michel In 1997, Jean Beaudry began to shoot a documentary on Quebec photography.1 Featuring an introduction that traces the history of photography in Quebec, interviews with people active in the photography milieu, and exhibition scenes, the film, L’objectif subjectif, follows three Montreal photographers – Raymonde April, Pierre Guimond, and Gilbert Duclos […]
Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1998-1999] by Franck Michel The second edition of the Salon Paris-Photo recently took place in France. Presented at the same time as the Mois de la Photo à Paris, this event involved more than eighty exhibitions from all over the world, especially Europe and North America. Most of them were oriented toward sales and […]
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1998] by Franck Michel As we all know, photography now plays a preponderant role on the contemporary-art scene. The autumn cultural season in Quebec provides ample proof of this with a particularly rich programme of photographic exhibitions. To begin with, there is the first Biennale de Montréal, organized by the Centre international d’art contemporain, […]
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Summer 1998] by Franck Michel During a recent trip abroad, I had an opportunity to meet with a number of photography specialists, including publishers from various countries. These meetings enabled me to take stock of the state of contemporary-photography magazines throughout the world. The situation is not wonderful. Over the last two years, many of […]
Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Spring 1998] by Franck Michel The Internet, that network of networks, is now a part of daily life for many of us; we surf the ’Net looking for things or just for entertainment. For artists, this communications tool comprises a new area of exploration with immense potential. Some use it as the main support for […]
Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1997-1998] by Franck Michel As I was writing this editorial, I learned that Claude Thibeault, curator of the photography collection at the Musée du Québec, has lost his job. Four years ago, the Musée du Québec set up a collection dedicated exclusively to photography and appointed Mr. Thibeault to run it, showing its desire […]
Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1997] by Franck Michel Since its inception, CVphoto has favoured new currents in its choice of both artists and writers. In fact, we feel that a magazine dedicated to contemporary photography should provide some recognition to young artists and writers. And so, this year, our participation in LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO À MONTRÉAL […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Summer 1997] by Franck Michel This issue of CVphoto is the first in a trilogy devoted to the overarching notion of authenticity. The growing use of digital technologies in the various fields of photography, and the upheavals this has caused, has made this debate particularly timely and essential. In this issue, we will explore more […]