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 […]
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Harun Farocki, Rodney Graham
[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jeu de Paume, Paris Du 7 avril au 7 juin 2009
Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Manon De Pauw
[Fall 2009] Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal February 27 to March 28, 2009 Manon De Pauw practices a corporeal poetics as inventive and involute in its physical articulation as it is varied and inviting in its philosophical approach. Her manner of thinking the body – the “universal thing” – sheds light on the meaning of corporeality […]
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: Silvia Kolbowski
[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen, Montréal 30 janvier au 7 mars 2009
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Paul-Antoine Pichard
[Summer 2009] Galerie d’art du Centre Culturel Université de Sherbrooke January 12 to February 22, 2009 Previously exhibited at Cirque du Soleil’s TOHU Espace SSQ, Paul-Antoine Pichard’s photographs of people who live amid trash, in the scarred landscapes that they are a part of, reveal scarred, aged, disfigured victims of the conditions imposed on them […]
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Carlos & Jason Sanchez
[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maison des arts de Laval Du 27 septembre au 24 novembre 2008 Commissaire : Madeleine Therrien
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Roger Ballen
[Summer 2009] OCAD Professional Gallery, Toronto March 5 – May 31, 2009 Everything is decay in Roger Ballen’s photographs: floors, walls, toothless mouths, and lank, rancid hair. Their only “beauty” (as we warily call it) – purloined from painterly, graffiti-wired photographs of the past (Siskind, Brassai, etc.) – is inventively and mercilessly imposed, in the […]
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: René Viau | Artists: Bas Jan Ader
[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dazibao, centre de photographies actuelles, Montréal Du 8 janvier au 21 février 2009 Commissariat : France Choinière
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Thomas Corriveau
[Summer 2009] Galerie Graff November 13 to December 20, 2008 We are living in a telematically attuned present tense. We are bombarded, even besieged, by endless streaming images and data feeds coming in from all sides, all the time. How we fend off the barrage or negotiate détente with it shapes the condition of our […]
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Reno Salvail
[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU Du 10 octobre au 9 novembre 2008
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Arthur Renwick, Dana Claxton, Jeff Thomas, Shelley Niro
[Summer 2009] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa October 31, 2008 – March 22, 2009 What if sacred masks and the geopolitical pomp of costumes had preceded posed portraits and scenes for the camera? Then, in the photographic gaze, not only would there be different works, but there would […]
Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Tim Clark
[Spring 2009] Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery Concordia University, Montreal October 23–November 29, 2008 Curator: David Tomas, with the collaboration of Michèle Thériault and Eduardo Ralickas The commingling of academia and art in Tim Clark’s conceptual practice is announced at the outset of his recent retrospective exhibition with the installation of a small shelf […]
Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Olivier Asselin
[Spring 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erin Silver | Artists: Molly Landreth
IPS gallery, Montreal November 1 – December 20, 2008 From Barack Obama’s gay-inclusive acceptance speech to the controversial passing of the Prop. 8 ban on gay marriage, the lives of gay Americans are, for better or for worse, on the public radar in the United States. Molly Landreth moves beyond party platforms and ballot boxes, embarking on […]
Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jacob Korczynski | Artists: Rivane Neuenschwander, Sharon Lockhart, Wolfgang Tillmans
[Spring 2009] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 3, 2008–January 11, 2009 Despite fulfilling several different roles during its century-plus history, the Carnegie International exists today as a quadrennial exhibition of international contemporary art. This second-oldest exhibition of its kind opened just months after the first edition of the Venice Biennale, but today the Carnegie International is only […]
Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Elitza Dulguerova | Artists: Johan Grimonprez, Köken Ergun
[Spring 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen, Université Concordia 29 août au 11 octobre 2008 Commissaire : Séamus Kealy (Blackwood Gallery, Université de Toronto / Mississauga)
Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Richard Misrach
[Spring 2009] Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington 11 October 2008 – 18 January 2009 Over the past three decades, Richard Misrach has created a body of work that attempts to reconcile his two lifelong passions: a socio-political activism forged during his student days at Berkeley in the late 1960s and an affinity for images of […]
Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Mathieu Beauséjour, Patrick Altman
[Spring 2009] 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 19 juin au 10 août 2008
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Denis Villeneuve
[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Phi Group, Montréal
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: David McMillan, John Ganis, Robert ParkeHarrison, Shana ParkeHarrison
[Fall 2008] National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa June 27–October 13, 2008 A more timely exhibition of photography there never was. And with a shock-primed title such as Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, one is put on edge from the beginning. Although the bias in the photographs is toward documentary and […]
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Norman F. Cornett | Artists: Éliane Excoffier
[Fall 2008] Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal February 27 – March 29, 2008 Although we can still see the etymological relationship between the modern term “technology” and the ancient Greek word techne, nowadays we generally lose sight of its original meaning – art, craft, skill. Éliane Excoffier’s latest show at Galerie Simon Blais reminds us that […]
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre | Artists: Yann Pocreau
[Fall 2008] 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, Montréal 19 avril au 24 mai 2008
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Luc Delahaye, Martin Parr, Robert Burley
[Fall 2008] Contact Photography Festival Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto May 1 – 31, 2008 On a bright Saturday morning back in early May, I came upon a strange sight on Queen Street West. In front of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA), and spilling onto the sidewalk, a considerable crowd had gathered […]
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvie Lacerte | Artists: Rose-Marie E. Goulet
[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Voiture de métro de Montréal 24 septembre 2007 au 31 mars 2008
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard
[Fall 2008] Donald Browne Galery, Montreal April 19–May 24, 2008 In her new exhibition at Galerie Donald Browne, Emmanuel Léonard made her consummately subversive voice heard from the outset. Her singular art of juxtaposition, theatricality, gathered “evidence,” and narrative layering once again adumbrated an environmental volume that radically exceeded the sum of its parts. The […]
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Nelson Henricks
[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Articule, Montréal 29 février au 30 mars 2008
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Geoffrey James
[Fall 2008] National Gallery of Canada May 30 – October 19, 2008 Geoffrey James describes his photographs as the outcome of “walks with purpose.” His approach is both methodically and philosophically in opposition to the wanderings ascribed to other photographers interested in the landscape and in urban environments, who trust in happening upon inspiration in […]
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Baillargeon
[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Expression, St-Hyacinthe 15 mars au 27 avril 2008 Commissaire : Lisanne Nadeau
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Susan Meiselas
[Fall 2008] Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto March 29 – April 26, 2008 Intimate Strangers could be seen as a revisitation and continuation of a world of documentary exploration that began thirty-five years ago for Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, with her Carnival Strippers project. Carnival Strippers came about when Meiselas attached herself to a “girl show” […]
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Cheryl Pagurek
[Summer 2008] Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, January 9 – February 3, 2008 Over the years, Cheryl Pagurek’s art practice has gradually shifted from sculpture and installations to printed photographs and, finally, in the present exhibition, to the ultimate Ephemera of moving digital imagery. The more fleeting her work becomes, however, the more strongly it shows […]