Avant-Garde Chats with Cecil Touchon

Cecil Touchon
Repository Magazine
2 min readMay 17, 2021
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Watch this ZOOM conversation I have with Michelle Moloney King; Editor of Beir Bua Press

Cecil Touchon chats with Michelle Moloney King
Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico . Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group’s Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists. Cecil Touchon is best known for his Typographic Abstraction works that ‘Free the letters from their burden of being bearers of meaning”.

Links —
Cecil Touchon

http://asemics.com/
https://ceciltouchon.com/
https://opensea.io/accounts/touchon https://www.instagram.com/ceciltouchon
https://twitter.com/touchon
https://www.facebook.com/touchonstudio/

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Michelle Moloney King Editor:

https://beirbuapress.com
https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/...
Pamphlet out with Alien Buddha Press — Shapes of Motherhood https://michellemoloneyking.com/buy/

Video reference — work on movies — Pop Culture — Movies, Fashion and Television

Everybody’s Fine (2009) Director: Kirk Jones — Actors: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell — artworks by Cecil Touchon shown in the movie (Drew Barrymore’s apartment)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 (2011) Director: Bill Condon — Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner — Artworks by Cecil Touchon shown in the movie.

Man on a Ledge (2012) Director: Asger Leth — Actors: Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell and Sam Worthington — Artworks by Cecil Touchon shown in the movie.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 Two painting by Cecil Touchon were used on the set.

Season 9 (2017–18) Will & Grace, an American television sitcom on NBC — Two artworks by Cecil Touchon are a part of the permanent set.Rei Kawakubo Fall 2018 Men’’s Collection: Cecil Touchon’s work was selected for a fabric print.

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