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CECIL TOUCHON
Fusion Series #3830, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
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Fusion Series #3827, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
Fusion Series #3829, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
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Fusion Series #3826, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
Fusion Series #3823, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
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Fusion Series #3825, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
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The Typographic Abstraction collages by Cecil Touchon are made by chopping letters and using the elements to create new abstract forms as a kind of “concrete poetry.” These sub-literal poems reduce the letters to geometric forms that are recombined into an archetypal composition that encourages a reading that is truly concrete, releasing the letters from their work of representing a complex linguistic network. This allows the viewer to enjoy the language without the “burden of speech.”
Fusion Series #3824, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
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Fusion Series #3821, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
Fusion Series #3820, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
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Fusion Series #3819, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
Fusion Series #3815, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
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Fusion Series #3818, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
Fusion Series #3816, 2016 Collage on Paper, 9x6
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Fusion Series #2923, 2010 Collage on Paper, 18x12
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The hunt for materials is a big part of a collage artist’s activity and these materials, to a great degree, determine the nature of the artist’s work. “I am a paper person. Some people love wood or fabric or metal or clay, etc. I love paper and the ink or paint or pencil on it and the patina of use and the feel of the surface and the notations, scribbles, stains and repairs found on it. I am fascinated by the evidence of use and the mysterious nature of its history as a unique voice, a witness to the lives of those people now lost to history who used to own it.” -Cecil Touchon
Cecil Touchon’s Post Dogmatist Paintings are all in the typographic abstraction style using collages from his Fusion Series as studies or as Touchon says, as scores, in the Fluxus sense of the term. As a score, Touchon sees the studies as the original visual instructions according to which the paintings are composed as performances. Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product.
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Post Dogmatist Painting #1087, 2019 Acrylic Over Paper on Canvas, 60x48
Post Dogmatist Painting #1104, 2020 Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 40x30
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Untitled, 2020 Collage and Acrylic on Paper, 14x12
Post Dogmatist Painting #632, 2017 Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 45x66
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Post Dogmatist Painting #1085, 2019 Acrylic Over Paper on Canvas, 48x60
Post Dogmatist Painting #646, 2017 Mixed Media Collage on Panel, 66x454
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Post Dogmatist Painting #635, 2017 Mixed Media Collage on Panel, 66x45
Post Dogmatist Painting #931, 2017 Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 60x40
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Post Dogmatist Painting #930, 2017 Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 60x40
Post Dogmatist Painting #815, 2016 Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 20x16
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Post Dogmatist Painting #814, 2016 Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 20x16
Post Dogmatist Painting #512, 2011 Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 20x20
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Post Dogmatist Painting #933, 2017 Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 60x48
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