Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Emanuel Licha
July 5, 2016 [originally published in French only in Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Elizabeth Matheson | Artists: Esther Shalev-Gerz
July 7, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — Within participatory arts there is often an implicit, yet compelling, assumption that media and public attention to issues that figure into public art attest to their social significance, while lack of interest evidences their irrelevance. That which is not spoken of, it seems, is assumed to have little or no consequence. However, as Esther Shalev-Gerz knows, it is often silent moments, ones that not only shape private lives…
Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: Pascal Dufaux
July 11, 2016 [originally published in French only in Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Raymonde April
April 6, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Why is it that Raymonde April’s art always occupies the foreground of my consciousness when I think about photography – about what it is and what it can be ? Even as flashier and more graphically cinematographic photography rules the proverbial roost in the art world right now, April, a maverick artist, has long since staked out her territory and made it her wholly and uniquely her own.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur
April 14, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde
April 18, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Matthieu Brouillard | Artists: BrassaÏ, Claude Cahun
April 21, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: José Carlos Martinat
April 25, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: David Hoffos
April 28, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Despite the impending calamities hidden in many of the works in Scenes from the House Dream, David Hoffos’s gathering of twenty installations into one, dark, enveloping space feels warm and fuzzy. True, a monster lurks under a boat, vapours rise in a noisy forest, and snow drifts through the open windows of a deserted house, but the exhibition curated by Shirley Madill remains appealing and enchanting.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Nelson Henricks
May 2, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila
May 5, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Chuck Samuels
May 9, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: René Viau | Artists: Gregory Sholette, John Jordan
May 12, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Matthieu Brouillard
[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Sagamie, Alma Du 3 septembre au 9 octobre 2009
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Chris McCaw, Michael Flomen
[Spring 2010] The Rise of Abstraction in Photography Galerie Pangée, Montreal September 15 to October 12, 2009 Culled from a much larger exhibition at Aperture Gallery in New York, curated by Lyle Rexer, author of, among others, How to Look at Outsider Art,1 The Edge of Vision is a very special show that touches on […]
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger
[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Casser l’image Expression, centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe Du 7 novembre au 20 décembre 2009
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Jason Dodge, Rob Kovitz
[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jason Dodge et Rob Kovitz Dazibao centre de photographies actuelles, Montréal Du 24 octobre au 28 novembre 2009
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Michael Schreier
[Spring 2010] The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa September 10 to November 15, 2009. Disquieting, painterly, poetic – these words come to mind on viewing Michael Schreier’s series of large-scale grey/blue/purple semi-abstract photographs, Disappearing Numbers (2007-20-09), and Or-Sarua (2009), which portray empty bunker-like interiors quietly resonating with a sense of tragedy. Despite their softened forms and […]
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Nathalie Guimond | Artists: Nicholas Pye, Sheila Pye
[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal Du 15 août au 12 septembre 2009
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Guido Guidi
[Spring 2010] CCA, Montreal September 11, 2009, to January 10, 2010 Nestled within the CCA’s Octagonal Gallery in conceptually elegant fashion, this thematic body of photographic work by the Italian photographer Guido Guidi paid tribute to an architectural masterwork while highlighting his own various strengths and idiosyncrasies as a creative artist preoccupied, for the last […]
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yan Giguère
[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Optica, Montréal Du 12 septembre au 17 octobre 2009
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Corina Ilea | Artists: Chantal Gervais, Cindy Stelmackowich, Sarah Sudhoff
[Fall 2009] In Plain Sight Gallery, Montreal April 18 to May 23, 2009 The Rx exhibition, curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine and Zoe Casino at the In Plain Sight Gallery in Montreal, explores the inherent conflicts aroused by the intrusions of medical devices and representations into the construction of identity. The presupposed neutrality and innocence of […]
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Serge Clément
[Fall 2009] 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, Montréal Du 10 juin au 1er août 2009
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Philippe Guillaume | Artists: Sylvie Readman
[Fall 2009] Occurrence, Espace d’Art, and d’Essai Contemporain, Montreal May 14 to June 13, 2009 Sylvie Readman traveled to Argentina to create the core elements for her latest project, S’absenter (2009), exhibited recently at Espace Occurrence in Montreal. The refined and masterful seven photographs and three videos that form this project invite the viewer into […]
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: René Viau | Artists: John Massey, Roman Signer
[Automne 2009] 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, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal Du 6 mars au 30 mai 2009
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Scott McFarland
[Fall 2009] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa April 11 to September 13, 2009 Given his avid interest in gardening, west coast photographer Scott McFarland addresses the landscape with his photographs. Is he acutely aware of the history of landscape in art? The thirty-six works on view in this […]
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Jamshed Kholikov, Paolo William Tamburella, Taysir Batniji
[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Les petites nations Du 7 juin au 22 novembre 2009
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Atta Kim, Fiona Tan, Mark Lewis
[Fall 2009] June 7 to November 22, 2009 The constellation of temporary exhibitions, national representations, and thematic exhibitions that take over Venice for the first week of June every other year is usually a grand affair that defies any type of human scale. Surprisingly, that was largely untrue this year. Perhaps as a side effect […]
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler
[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montréal Du 30 avril au 20 juin 2009
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Emily Falvey | Artists: Tony Fouhse
[Fall 2009] iPs Gallery Montreal June 6 to 27, 2009 Crack cocaine is the classic drug of addiction nightmares: it gets you high for five or ten minutes, and then haunts you for the rest of your life. The most addictive form of any drug, crack turns most of its users into dependents, the majority […]