Suprematist
Non-Objective Collage Poetry
New Collages by Cecil Touchon
Cecil
Touchon explores the boundaries between art and poetry in these elegant
and intimate papiers colles 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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