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Ontological Museum
ONTOLOGICAL MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS - Publishers of materials related to or in the collection of the Ontological Museum including materials related to the International Post-Dogmatist Group, The FluxNexus, The Neoist Society, The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists, The Archives of the Eternal Network, The Collage Museum, The FluxMuseum, etc.
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Happy Shopping - Massurrealist Spam Poetry
In this book of poetry Cecil Touchon extracts material from the very fabric of the massurreality; texts from spam email. In these poems Touchon gives us a contemplative glimpse into contemporary artistic practice where the artist becomes, much more a connector of things than a creator. Every day trillions of bits of data are transmitted over the Internet. As artists peer into this world of information overload a vast body of incoherent data is brought into view. Much like the subconscious explored by the early Surrealists, Touchon uses this raw material to explore unlikely configurations through the use of found text, the abutment of random, unrelated words and phrases such as the classic example from Lautréamonts Chants de Maldoror: "the unexpected meeting, on a dissection table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella". This embrace of randomness is central to Touchon’s poetic output.
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Hardcover Print: $34.95
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Sell People Things They Don't Need.
This is the first book of Massurrealist Poetry. The following poetry has been constructed rather than invented. This is a distinction similar to the difference between a drawing and a collage. A drawing is completely fabricated by the artist while a collage is constructed from preexisting parts which have been carefully arranged or even haphazardly arranged! These arrangements are often disjointed, surprising and serendipitous.
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Cecil Touchon at the New Gallery
Explore the postminimalist paintings and collages of Cecil Touchon spanning a twenty year period. This is a catalog for the exhibition at Thom Andriola's New Gallery in Houston, Texas June/July 2007. This catalog contains 28 full color images including installation shots of the show.
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Massurrealist Collage Poetry
Two Hundred Poems of Cecil Touchon's Massurrealist collage poetry combined into one hardback, collectible edition. This contains "Sell People Things They Don't Need" and "Is It Necessary to Say Something?"
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The Fusion Series
Cecil Touchon explores the boundaries between art and poetry in these elegant and intimate papiers collages composed of bits of lettering and the empty spaces between them. Stripped of literary meaning, these works rely on composition, rhythm and visual movement to convey their meaning which is ambiguous and intuitive.
These works are constructed from distressed street posters that have been carefully edited into inlayed bits of printed matter creating passages that move from figure to ground and then reverse back to figure through gentle curves, irregular grids and subtle shading techniques. Snippets of lettering almost become recognizable letters or perhap proposals for a new poetic alphabet but always slip back into forms and spaces creating enigmatic and open, simultaneously plausible interpretations.
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