Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Viviane Paradis | Artists: Doyon-Rivest
[Summer 2003] 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 du 2 mai au 1er juin 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Geneviève Cadieux
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie René Blouin du 26 mars au 3 mai 2003
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Edward Burtynsky
[Summer 2003] National Gallery of Canada 31 January–4 May 2003 The photograph – the colour photograph in particular – seems to have taken on gigantic proportions. Monumental images are a consequence of technological advances, but, more importantly, the shifting proportions are born from the work’s relationship to its place of reception: the gallery. Scale provokes […]
Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Bruce Mau Design, Francis Summers
[Summer 2003] March 13–April 21, 2003 Anyone looking for photographs at the fifth international Foto Biënnale Rotterdam (FBR), titled Experience, would have left the two main exhibition sites in a hurry. Photo aficionados would have had better luck at the many participating galleries and museums throughout the city that opted for more traditional exhibitions. Few […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet
[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Art Gallery of York University, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art et The Koffler Gallery, Toronto 12 mai au 30 juin 2002 Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal 12 septembre au […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière
[Spring 2003] 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 du 4 septembre au 5 octobre 2002
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Ken Lum
[Spring 2003] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography 21 September 2002 – 12 January 2003 Ken Lum Works With Photography. The title of a retrospective exhibition of Lum’s photographic works at the CMCP in Ottawa this fall mimics the way Lum uses text and aptly describes his practice. Lum works with photography. Rather than exploring the […]
Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Danielle Schwartz | Artists: Melvin Charney
[Spring 2003] Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal February 22 to April 28, 2002 Even in his earliest photographs, which he shot as a teen – portraits of alleyways, façades, and streets – Melvin Charney, the Montreal-based architect-painter-photographer-intellectual, was examining the relationship between local and international vernacular architecture and daily life. As this show reveals, the […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Patrick Coutu
[Fall 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec du 6 juin au 13 octobre 2002
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: David Goldblatt
[Fall 2002] Kassel June 8 to September 15, 2002 A colour photo by South African photographer David Goldblatt, from a series titled Jo’Burg Intersections (1999–2002), shows high-rises of Johannesburg towering over an enormous garbage dump. Almost imperceptibly, two human shelters merge with the trash. Light fixtures and billboards in the middle ground indicate a sunken […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Robert Frank
[Fall 2002] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography June 22–September 12, 2002 Organized by the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, in cooperation with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. One of the greatest pleasures of this exhibition was to see Robert Frank’s photoworks in the context of his moving images and to experience […]
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anite de Carvalho | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard
[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dans le cadre de l’exposition La vie en temps réel. Mode ralenti. Espace Vox, du 22 mars au 26 mai 2002.
Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Lynne Cohen
[Summer 2002] National Gallery of Canada February 1 to May 12, 2002 No Man’s Land: The Photographs of Lynne Cohen, was organized by the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne. It was shown at the National Gallery of Canada, from February 1 to May 12, 2002, and is now […]
Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Marc Audette
[Spring 2002] Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal 12 Jan.–16 Feb. 2002 Marc Audette’s video and photography installation Écran is a unique juncture of various incompossibilities: the electronic media sphere of the video, digitally generated compositions, mechanically produced photographs, and the artist’s hands that were involved in the print development process. All vie for the viewer’s […]
Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Adriana Kolar | Artists: Herbert List
[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal 23 janvier au 28 avril 2002 Abstract The retrospective exhibition Herbert List – Flâneur romantique raises questions that come less from the photographs than from the […]
Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Bill Vazan
[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec Du 2 septembre 2001 au 6 janvier 2002
Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Guy Bellavance | Artists: Alain Declercq, Alfredo Jaar, Annika Larsson, Jane Wilson, Ken Lum, Louise Wilson, Natacha Lesueur
[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Vid Ingelevics
[Fall 2001] The Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto June 14–July 28, 2001 This small but deftly selected sampling of Vid Ingelevics’s work of the past decade left the viewer feeling that the veteran Toronto-based photographer and curator could now be well served by a full-scale retrospective exhibition. Yet, given the way the photographs shown here seemed […]
Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement
[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Clark Du 10 mai au 17 juin 2001
Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anne Bénichou | Artists: Vera Greenwood
[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa 5 février – 15 avril 2001
Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur
[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Verticale Du 18 avril au 27 mai 2001
[Winter 2000-2001] par Susan Close Open Studio: William Eakin St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg, June 4 – September 24, 2000 William Eakin Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg September 28, 2000 – January 7, 2001 Winnipeg artist William Eakin works on a vast scale, as both a collector of objects and a maker of photographs. It comes as […]
Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Alexa Wright
[Winter 2000-2001] par Dayna McLeod Articule, Montreal September 9 – October 8, 2000 Projecting the agency of the ego and the power of the image in an age obsessed with identity politics, performative fiction, and digital truth, Alexa Wright reveals disabled versions of herself in her solo exhibition at Articule, I. This series of eight […]
Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Marian Penner Bancroft
[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) Galerie de l’UQAM du 8 septembre au 7 octobre 2000
Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Greg Staats, Ramona Ramlochand
[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, Ottawa du 19 mai au 17 septembre 2000
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: André Martin
[Summer 2000] 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 du 11 mai au 13 août 2000
Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Clément
[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence du 16 mai au 18 juin 2000
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Sylvie Readman
[Spring 2000] 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 29 octobre au 4 décembre 1999
Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2000] by Gary Michael Dault Power Plant, Toronto from December 11, 1999, to February 20, 2000. Given the scope and ambition of the two photo-works that Angela Grauerholz presented recently at Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (which extend the inventiveness of her photo-installations for Documenta IX and the 1995 Carnegie International), it is […]
Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertien Van Manen, Pelle Kronestedt
[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.