The Paris Papers

Touchon, Cecil

Arts & Photography

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The writings presented here were composed specifically for existing in a book environment as unified text. These works might be called automatic writing or visual writing or asemic writing. There is no intention to tell a story or to use any recognizable language or symbols. Rather the works function in free flow with intuition rather than thought, allowing the hand to just do what the hand does; make marks. Touchon uses improvisational approach to mark making as if playing an instrument that records in marks what might otherwise be heard as notes of music and this might be a way to approach the work - to look as if listening; spending time studying the nature of the work; its flow, its progression, its repetitions, etc. just as we might have an aesthetic experience from looking at pages of text in a foreign language that we are not conversant in. In such a case we get to enjoy the work on a purely visual level without the conversion of the characters into linguistic meanings.

Listening with the Eye - An Asemic Notebook

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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This nearly 200 page book is lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred and fifty full color collages by Cecil Touchon created between 2004-2009. Touchon is widely recognized as a master of the art of collage. Touchon's work is found in prestigious museum and corporate collections around the world. Touchon is also the founding director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction a wing of the Ontological Museum - his over-arching 'Total Art' project.

The Art of Collage - Selected Works on Paper by Cecil Touchon

All art works created by Cecil Touchon during the year of 2013. Includes installation photos of exhibitions, poetry, photographs, articles, etc. about Cecil Touchon.

Cecil Touchon - 2013 Catalog of Works

Cecil Touchon - 2015 Catalog of Works

Exhibition catalog for the Dada Centennial show with an international survey of contemporary collage and assemblage art with over 300 works shown.

Dada Centennial: Day of the Dead

This is a catalog of works by Cecil Touchon created in the year 2016. This publication is something of a catalogue raisonne for the year. Very few photographic works are included other than images that document my artistic activity. Publishable photos may be found in a separate catalog. Otherwise, this book has almost every hand-made art work created during the year of 2014 including paintings, collages, drawings, sketches, and correspondence works. There may be a doodle here and there or a few unfinished works that have not be included, but this document accurately records the chronological order of at least 98% of the artwork for the year. Also included is documentation of exhibitions that Touchon was in or curated as well as collage poetry that was created over the course of the year. This document is intend to be a raw recording of work without any editing and represents a diary-like document of the artistic thought process.

Cecil Touchon - 2016 Catalog of Works

The current permutation of The Reader, originally envisioned as a black and white book, expanded in size and breadth to its current full color version to take into account the range of expression in Touchon's asemic explorations spanning forty years of works on paper including images from Touchon's unpublished sketchbooks.

The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader

Post-Asemic Press

These works might be called automatic writing or visual writing or asemic writing. There is no intention to tell a story or to use any recognizable language or symbols. Rather the works function freely with intuition rather than thought, allowing the hand to just do what the hand does; make marks. There is a kind of visual vocabulary however, such as letter-like marks, punctuation-like marks such as chevrons, commas, accents, dashes and dots, the organization for the most part is in lines of markings to suggest a reading of progression. Some are lyrical and look almost like what a visual music score might look like. I experimented with different rhythmic motions, different ways of holding the tool, sometimes in silence and at other times while listening to music. Sometimes I would watch closely as the work unfolded and at other times allowing my hand to move along the page unobserved in order to see what would happen.

Listening with the Eye - An Asemic Notebook - Volume 2

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