Traces of Virgil as a Chalk Giant: Ewa Monika Zebrowski’s Meditations on Cy Twombly — James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 114 - MASSES | MONUMENTS | Book Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Cy Twombly, Ewa Monika Zebrowski

[Winter 2020] It was the word beyond speech. — Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ecstasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know […]

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Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Book Reviews

[Fall 2019] [Excerpt] David McMillan, Growth and Decay, Göttingen, Steidl Verlag, 2019, 260 p. Guillaume Simoneau, Murder, Londres, Mack, 2019, 96 p. Greg Girard, Tokyo Yokusaka, 1976-1983, Toronto, Magenta Foundation, 2019, 160 p. Louis Perreault, Les affluents, Montréal/Québec, Les Éditions du renard/VU, 2019, 96 p. Kim Waldron, Une autre femme_ Another Woman, New York, Galerie […]

Abendlied, Birthe Piontek — Guillaume Tomasi

Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Guillaume Tomasi | Artists: Birthe Piontek

[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. New York, Gnomic Book 2019, 112 pages Par Guillaume Tomasi (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue

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Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Book Reviews

[Summer 2019] [Excerpt]   Sophie Hackett, Andrea Kunard, Urs Stahel (dir.), Anthropocène. Burtynsky, Baichwal, De Pencier, Toronto/Fredericton, Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario/Goose Lane Edtions, 2018, 250 p. Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin (ed.), The Work of Wind: Land, Mississauga/Berlin, Blackwood Gallery/K. Verlag, 2018, 336 p. Myriam Jacob-Allard, T’envoler, Montréal, Dazibao, 2019, 38 p. Isabelle Hayeur, […]

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Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews

[Winter 2019] [Excerpt] Livres photographiques Marie-Jeanne Musiol, La forêt radieuse : un herbier énergétique, Les éditions Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal, 2018, 224 p., 385 photographies n/b deux tons, couverture rigide, fr. Serge Clément, Archipel, Occurrence et Éditions Loco, Montréal/Paris, 2018, 191 p., 102 photographies, couverture rigide, texte de Zoë Tousignant, fr. et angl.   […]

Clémence Cottard Hachem et Nour Salamé (dir.), Sur la photographie au Liban — Claudia Polledri

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Kaph Books – Presses du réel, 2018 Par Claudia Polledri (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here : Ciel variable […]

Martha Langford (dir.), Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World — Erika Wicky

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews
Authors: Erika Wicky

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017 Par Erika Wicky (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here : Ciel variable 111 – THE SPACE […]

Kristine Potter, Manifest – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Kristine Potter

[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. TBW Books, Oakland, 2018, 92 p., 48 duotones Par Louis Perreault (French only) [The printed and digital versions of the issue CV110 are on sale here : Ciel variable 110 – […]

Guillaume Simoneau, Experimental Lake – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Guillaume Simoneau

[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. MACK, Londres, 2018, 80 p., 48 photographies Par Mona Hakim (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale here : Ciel variable […]

Vincent Lavoie, L’affaire Capa – François Brunet

Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: François Brunet

[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. L’affaire Capa Le procès d’une icône Paris, Textuel, « L’écriture photographique », 2017, 192 p., 62 ill. By François Brunet (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine […]

Mathieu Asselin, Monsanto – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Mathieu Asselin

[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Monsanto, une enquête photographique Paris, Actes Sud, 2017, 147 pages By Louis Perreault (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale here […]

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Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Book Reviews

April 6, 2021 [originally published in CV108 in Winter 2018] — Photographic books, monographic catalogs and theoretical works, highlighted in Ciel variable 108 – Going Public.

Vincent Delbrouck, Catalogue – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Vincent Delbrouck

April 6, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Masahisa Fukase, Ravens – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Masahisa Fukase

September 29, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thierry Gervais dir., The « Public » Life of Photographs – Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande et Julie-Ann Latulippe

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews
Authors: Julie-Ann Latulippe, Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

October 6, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sarker Protick et Katrin Koenning, Astres noirs – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault

May 21, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Le livre photographique : un état des lieux – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Book Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim

[Spring-Summer 2017] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris Photo, Offprint et Polycopies par Mona Hakim (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

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Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Book Reviews

[Winter 2017] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Download this article (Free of charge)

Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Gregory Halpern

March 23, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nicolas Mavrikakis, La peur de l’image – Septembre Tiberghien

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Book Reviews
Authors: Septembre Tiberghien

January 20, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Geoffrey Batchen, Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph – Claude Baillargeon

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Book Reviews
Authors: Claude Baillargeon

January 22, 2020 [originally published in Fall 2016] — Published to coincide with and provide a broader context for a similarly titled exhibition, “Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph” surveys a vital form of image making traditionally relegated to the margins of the medium’s history…

Kate Hutchinson, The Park – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Kate Hutchinson

November 6, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Sometime in the early twenty-third century, a sealed copper box is found interred at the foot of the excavated cross on top of Montreal’s estimable Mount Royal. Once opened, archaeologists and sundry forensic experts find a fulsome sheaf of what seem to be vernacular images…

Bertrand Carrière, Le capteur – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

November 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Winter 2016] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. par Alexis Desgagnés Download this article (Free of Charge)