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Cecil Touchon September 2013
Cecil Touchon, born in Austin, Texas, is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Colorado. He is the co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, founder of the Internationl Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage. Left: Cecil Touchon in his studio
Painting with Fluxus: From Kubota to Touchon Fluxus has been closely associated with nearly all media forms over the years. In many ways Fluxus formed the foundation of multi-media art in the 20th century. Fluxus is after all synonymous with the term “intermedia”. Interestingly, Fluxus has never been closely associated with the most traditional of all artistic media, painting. I suppose that part of the reason for so little Fluxus work to be constructed using traditional painting is that Fluxus arose as an anti-art movement (by some definitions) and thus painting on canvas was rejected by many Fluxus artists. Fluxus has also been concerned with the theory and technology of intermedia (the intersections of different media) which would tend to preclude the use of any single dominant medium such as painting. When painting has been part of Fluxus, it has usually been as a constituent medium in a mixed-media work. Shigeko Kubota created her “vagina paintings” in the 1960s for example but these works were primarily performances in which the resulting painting was of secondary evidentiary importance. But there is really no compelling reason that painting can not be Fluxus. One artist that has been making paintings which are both Fluxus and “traditional” paint-on-canvas is Cecil Touchon. Cecil’s “post-dogmatist” paintings often use collages as their models. He will assemble a collage and then “paint a picture” of his collage using painstaking trompe l’oeil techniques. The resulting paintings are simultaneously beautiful, visually fascinating, and conceptually rigorous and interesting.
“Cecil Touchon’s collagebased paintings transcend time and geography to address the artist’s involvement in worldwide intellectual trends that are measured in centuries rather than months.” Suzanne Deats
CT616 - Paper and Acrylic on Panel $7,000
Paintings Top Left: CT625 - Paper and Acrylic on Panel $7,000 Top Right: CT633 - Paper and Acrylic on Panel $7,000
Paintings CT628- Paper and Acrylic on Panel $6,250
Works on Paper Top Left moving Clockwise: CT2690- 5x4.25- $1,100 CT2694 - 5x4.25 $1,100 CT2873 - 5x4 $1,100
Works on Paper Top left moving down: CT2741- 12x9 $2,500 CT2819 - 12x9 $2,500 CT2818 - 12x9 $2,500
Works on Paper Top Left: CT3316- 6x6 $1,450 Bottom Left: CT 3315 6x6 $1,450
Works on Paper Top Left moving Clockwise: CT2874 - 5x4 $1,100 CT2958 - 7x5 $1,450 CT3211 - 9x6 $1,800
Works on Paper Top Left Moving Clockwise: CT2959 - 7x5 $1,450 CT3344 - 7.5x5 $1,500 CT3343 - 7.5x5 $1,500