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EDITORIAL - Contemporary Art Is and Must Be
By Marcel Blouin
Art is looking for itself. Does not art look for itself and question itself? Would it be more accurate to say, rather, that art helps to throw light on the human being who is looking for himself? In a time when no one, anywhere, wishes to question things — indeed, even to get involved or to get his feet wet — art remains forever and always an indispensable — and perhaps, henceforth, the only — guiding light for the critical development of society.
Jean-François Bérubé : Le jeu du portrait:* a guessing game
Portrait: n. m. (Portret, pourtrait, 1175; p.p. of portraire "to draw or represent")... Jeu du portrait, where a player must guess the name of a person (or a thing) by asking questions to which one responds with only Yes or No.
Le Petit Robert, p. 1489
Ken Straiton: Tokyo Stories
I have always been interested in cities. I love the country, but the city is food for thought and for my eyes. The real subject of cities is what interests all of us the most: human beings.
Michel Hébert: The River-image
For a quarter of a century Michel Hébert has been relentlessly photographing the same set of landscapes, all of whose horizons include the St. Lawrence River. At first glance, it seems that these untamed locales — in contrast to the mere simulacrum that is every work of art — reaffirm the permanence of the world.
