Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Julie-Ann Latulippe | Artists: Clara Gutsche, David Miller
[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Charles Gagnon
[Summer 2008] Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montreal October 6 – October 27, 2007 The stark elegance of Charles Gagnon’s photographic oeuvre is one of its defining characteristics. It is always, however, underscored by powerfully enigmatic markers. Those indexical markers are like fingers pointing to unseen presences – or a transcendent reality. Gagnon was always a champion […]
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Laframboise
[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Mehraneh Atashi, Shadi Ghadirian
[Summer 2008] Cicero Galerie for Political Photography, Berlin, Germany November 20, 2007 – January 18, 2008 The interest in the exhibition Made in Tehran: Six Women’s Views was immense. This is not surprising with photography by artists who call themselves “the children of the [Islamic] Revolution.” They are the next generation, after Shirin Neshat, and […]
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Kerry Tribe, Nancy Davenport
[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. DHC – Art, Montréal, 22 février – 25 mai 2008
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Pascal Grandmaison
[Summer 2008] Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa January 14 – April 13, 2008 A rupture occurs when an action is played out in its conventional sequence and then witnessed in reverse. The action’s asynchronous interconnection serves as a narrative and visual conceit; time runs forwards and backwards in a rearward déjà vu. In static form, […]
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: Gilles Mahé
[SUmmer 2008] 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, Montréal 26 janvier – 15 mars, 2007
Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Antonella Pelizzari | Artists: Fazal Sheikh, Tacita Dean
[Summer 2008] International Center of Photography, New York, January 18 – May 4, 2008 An overall sense of clutter and discomfort pervades the installation of Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, the current exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) curated by Okui Enwenzor and modlelled on Jacques Derrida’s seminal essay […]
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Susan Bozic
[Spring 2008] Galerie Art Mur, Montreal August 18 – September 22, 2007 Susan Bozic’s latest series, The Dating Portfolio, elicits easy, involuntary smiles but poses a serious question or two that leave the viewer in an interrogatory frame of mind. Bozic appears in each of these medium-to-large-scale photographs in the company of a plastic (clothed) […]
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Jocelyn Philibert
[Fall 2008] 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 23 août – 21 septembre
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Andrea Carson | Artists: Greg Girard
[Fall 2008] Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto September 20 – November 18, 2007 Like those of many of his Vancouver contemporaries, Greg Girard’s photographs – melancholy, colour-drenched images of Shanghai – are very large, which has the effect of enticing the viewer into a direct relationship with the city’s grand architecture and intimate interiors. The images in the […]
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Patrice Duhamel | Artists: Jeanne Dunning
[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. VOX, image contemporaine, Montréal 3 novembre – 15 décembre 2007
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jessica Wyman | Artists: Gellman & Leslie Peters, Susan Collins
[Fall 2008] Oakville Galleries, Oakville June 29 – August 26, 2007 In a world in which “Outlook” is perhaps recognized more immediately as the name of a software program than as a word meaning “approach to life”, it seems fitting that this pair of exhibitions takes as its starting point the premise of using technology […]
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin | Artists: Naoya Hatakeyama
[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre canadien d’architecture, Montréal 27 septembre 2007 – 3 février 2008
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Roy Arden
[Spring 2008] Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver October 20, 2007 – January 20, 2008 A landmark showing of the work of Vancouver School photographer Roy Arden should not go unnoticed! In his long career investigating the interrupted zones of society, Arden has chronicled not only a landscape in transition but a social and visual field. Against […]
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Emmanuel Bakari Daou, Fouad Maazouz, Nabil Boutros, Serge Emmanuel Jongué
[Spring 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Bamako 2007 7es Rencontres Africaines de la photographie, Bamako 22 novembre – 10 décembre 2007
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Harun Farocki
[Spring 2008] Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal October 19 – December 1, 2007 Harun Farocki: One Image Doesn’t Take the Place of the Previous One, at Concordia University’s Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery last fall, brought the German artist to Montreal for the first time. Although he has made over ninety film […]
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau
[Spring 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Explorations narratives, Montréal 6 septembre – 21 octobre 2007
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Allan Sekula, CK Rajan, George Osodi, Luis Jacob, Zoe Leonard, Zofia Kulik
[Fall 2007] Kassel, Germany, June 16 – September 23, 2007 “The big exhibition has no form.” This statement, the first sentence of a preface to the catalogue by curators Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack, set the tone for this year’s Documenta. This exhibition was indeed formless, sprawling from the heights of the Cascades at […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay
[Fall 2007] Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal, April 7 – May 12, 2007 The photographic speculative fictions that Eve K. Tremblay exhibited at Galerie Donald Browne bore the same enigmatic hallmark as has all her earlier work. Set in some day-after-tomorrow but finally in an indeterminate tense, these works challenge the viewer, who must interpret what […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yan Giguère
[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, espace d’art et d’essai contemporains, du 17 mars au 21 avril 2007
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: David Garneau | Artists: Jin-Me Yoon, Mitch Robertson, Roger Minick
[Fall 2007] online exhibition by Gallery TPW, Toronto, ongoing The emerging phenomenon of the virtual exhibition is creating both tremendous possibilities and challenges, particularly for photographers. Virtual venues offer new ways to disseminate and consider pictures, but current formats tend to privilege the curatorial imaginary. Dubious Views houses two online exhibitions produced by Gallery TPW. […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Gyorgy Kepes, Roger Ballen, Stan Denniston
[Fall 2007] Toronto, May 1 – 31, 2007 Every May, Toronto is almost entirely given over to photography, in the guise of the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival. This past May was the festival’s eleventh annual incarnation. The theme this year was “The Constructed Image” – which, in my estimation, is more or less code for […]
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Patrice Duhamel | Artists: Guy Ben-Ner
[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 10 février – 22 avril 2007
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: David Goldblatt
[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 4 mai – 16 juin 2007
Ciel variable 76 - MAPPING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Stephanie Gibson | Artists: Jeff Wall
[Summer 2007] Museum of Modern Art, New York February 25 – May 14, 2007 It is fitting that the Jeff Wall retrospective should be displayed on the sixth and top floor of the MoMA. For decades, photography collections had been relegated to the basement of museums. Photography, it was supposed, did not fit within the seamless narrative […]
Ciel variable 76 - MAPPING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Michel Lamothe
[Summer 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence, Montréal du 20 janvier au 3 mars 2007
Ciel variable 76 - MAPPING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Denis Farley, Lynne Cohen
[Summer 2007] Parisian Laundry, Montréal January 12 – February 24, 2007 This welcome, timely, and provocative exhibition of photographic works by Lynne Cohen and Denis Farley shed considerable light on their respective oeuvres in a truly dialogical fashion. Lynne Cohen’s photographs have never looked more seductive and unsettling than they do in the present exhibition. […]
Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Yam Lau | Artists: Alain Paiement
[Fall 2007] Biological Sciences Building, UQÀM, Montréal, inaugurated on December 6, 2006. A new public work by Alain Paiement was recently installed at the Université du Québec à Montréal. I met Paiement a few years ago. Since then, I have came to appreciate his photographic practice as being somewhat apart from the norm, from that […]
Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Fischli & Weiss
[Fall 2007] Tate Modern, London October 11, 2006 – January 14, 2007 Replicating the real, the Swiss duo of Fischli and Weiss play around with it all like so much spice cake. Since the 1970s, they have collaborated on numerous projects, and they have received their due recognition with this retrospective. Most often they fabricate meanings, or […]