CIEL VARIABLE 56 - Making Worlds
EDITORIAL - On a Global Scale
By Jacques Doyon
The works in this issue will seem, at first glance, diametrically opposed to each other. They involve very different subjects, from monumental architecture (Carl Zimmerman) to the world of collectors (Veli Granõ) to the ruins and waste of consumer society (Ramona Ramlochand).
PORTFOLIO - Carl Zimmerman, Landmarks
Zimmerman attributes to his photographs “an essentially utopian aesthetic with ambivalent understandings.” Humour, nostalgia, and critical deconstruction coexist in his work, as they often do in our responses to totalitarian aesthetics. “Fascinating fascism” shares its allure with the less radically discredited, but equally utopian, architectures of socialism and New Deal social democracy.
The Aesthetics of Power
For those familiar with Carl Zimmerman’s work, there was a moment of déja vu when the first photographs of England’s new Tate Modern appeared.
PORTFOLIO - Veli Granö, Cosmologies tangibles
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
Les collectionneurs dotent les objets quotidiens de sens et d’une perspective historique qu’ils transmettent aux millions de consommateurs qui utilisent ces objets. Ils peuvent donner une valeur et un contenu nouveaux à des objets qu’on avait déclarés vains et condamnés à la destruction.
Le collectionneur de collectionneurs « Des vies transformées en collection de photos »
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Summary
Par Veli Granö
Les collectionneurs sont des gens faciles à aborder puisqu’ils semblent toujours avoir beaucoup de choses à raconter sur ce qu’ils collectionnent.
PORTFOLIO - Ramona Ramlochand, Once Upon a Time . . . Ever After, a digital photographic panorama, 2001
Under the digital disney sky, the debris of contemporary life consolidates, piled together into a postcard from the edge. It is all sweetness and anxiety. The natural and unnatural, the real and the imagined, becoming one watery vista.
