Louis Vuitton, Ray Johnson, Keith Sonnier, John Himmelfarb, Hope Kroll, Ari Rosser & Courbet & More : Letter From Paris 2013 Wayback Machine

A little year in review: Louis Vuitton, Ray Johnson, Keith Sonnier, John Himmelfarb, Hope Kroll, Cecil Touchon and Ari Rossner's take on Courbet... Read it, see it all : Letter From Paris.

Collage/Assemblage Centennial To Launch

Michel Della Vedova (France) - collage, photo montage - 7x5 inches.

Collage, you've come a long way baby.  100 years of cutting and putting it all together has come together in this massive exhibition curated by artist and fluxman, Cecil Touchon.  See exhibition photos here.

The enormous Centennial of Collage and Assemblage Art is set to launch in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Right about now:  See the exhibition here.

Read more about the museum here.

FluxFest Chicago

Cecil Touchon, Director, The Ontological Museum, directed this photograph of participants of FluxFest Chicago, held recently in Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

Many participants of this festival also participated in and hosted ABAD exhibitions. The Fluxfest was spearheaded by artist Keith Buchholz. Click the photo to enlarge full screen. (It's a fisheye!). PHOTO © 2011 CECIL TOUCHON.

FLUXFEST CHICAGO FEB 15 - FEB 20, 2011

FLUXFEST CHICAGO is here.  Included in this six-day gala of terribly interesting art works and performances are: Picasso Gaglione, Keith A. Bucholz, Simon Anderson, Darlene Domel, Reed Altemus, Andy Oleksiuk, Patric Lichty, Tulio Restrepo, Jessica Rutherford, James Calfani, Allan Revich, Kyle White, Mark Block, Neosho, Reid Wood, Jennifer Kosharek, Joshua Rutherford, Jeff Abell, Melissa McCarthy, Vivian Vassar, Don Boyd, Julie Jeffries, Adamandia Kapsalis, Joel Lipman, mIEKAL aND, Cecil Touchon, Sally Alatelo among many others. 

VENUE: MCA CHICAGO, 220 East Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL

Song 06 By Cecil Touchon

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Fluxmass Carol No. 1 - "Thy -Thou -Thee -Thine"

Fluxmass Carol No.1 - "Thy -Thou -Thee -Thine" is a 2010 Fluxus-inspired Christmas Carol by Cecil Touchon. The piece was created for the Fluxus Jubilee Jamboree (50 Years of Fluxus). 

If you can play this piece and capture it on an audiophile, please send us the link and we'll post all the variations.

More stuff at http://ceciltouchon.blogspot.com/

Fluxmuseum ABAD Opens in Texas

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH THE EXHIBITION ARCHIVE: Fluxmuseum ABAD Opens in Texas.

Collage By Cecil Touchon

Dallas artist, Cecil Touchon, takes his work on the road to Santa Fe's Nuart Gallery, in an expansive exhibition from his "Post Dogmatist" series – collage-inspired paintings and collages in all varieties of post dogmatist incarnations.

Touchon's painted works on canvas are based upon his own collage compositions and provide a kind of hyper mirror of the found bits and pieces in carefully produced designs that echo the broken record of visual data found on street walls throughout the world.  Using fragments of torn poster texts and type, the artist has re-imagined visual consciousness as still photos with beguiling, moving parts. Strict color schemes – and sometimes Bauhaus-inspired designs – offer a visual fluency of not only modernist tendencies, but contemporary ones.  The results are rich and well-wrought visual poems stripped down to their barest of bones.

(Pictured above: Post Dogmatist Painting 287, acrylic on birch panel, 40 x 30 inches).

Touchon's The Art of Collage runs through July 4, 2010.  Click to see installation shots.

Details: The Art of Collage/Cecil Touchon. The Nuart Gallery 670 Canyon Road  Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone: 505.988.3888

A Book About Death Posters : Free

Download, free, the 8 Posters for A BOOK ABOUT DEATH. Poster designs by Julia Hoffmann, Cecil Touchon, Robert Mars, Caterina Verde, David Rager, Osiris Hertz & Matthew Rose.

Exhibition opens September 10, 2009 at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, 537 Broadway, NYC, NY 10012.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE POSTERS.

Fluxibition & Natural Born Fluxus

 Natural Born Fluxus is that tendency among artists to engage in Fluxus-like behaviors even if they never heard of Fluxus. Or possibly we could say that Fluxus ideas come out of a naturally occurring tendency in all artists that we now think of as Fluxus. It could be that the free wheeling nature of Fluxus allows artists to enjoy their creative, or at least peculiar, tendencies in an unfettered way that other forms of organized artistic activities do not. The sorts of things that delight a Fluxus artist tend to be of an ephemeral nature, contain a humorous element and refer to that mysterious some-thing that makes one laugh at a joke; call it irony or the unexpected twist, Fluxus artists enjoy a good surprise and a cleaver turn of phrase. They are willing to remain innocent enough to be easily amused and fall for a good trick. It is this adherence to a child-like sense of wonder that this book hopes to illustrate.  



News from the Fluxmuseum:  

Call for Works

FLUXHIBITION #3
JULY, 2009
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Fluxhibition #3 - Boxes, Cases, Kits and Containers

Greetings! Fluxhibition #2 was a great success thanks to all of the great contributions see the catalog at: http://fluxmuseum.org/ I had planned on Fluxhibition #3 being in 2010 HOWEVER a venue become available for this summer at The University of Texas at Arlington. I, in fact will actually be graduating with a BFA from UTA in about a week (after 35 years!). There is a current Collage Museum call out for an exhibition entitled Thinking Inside of the Box - A Survey of Box Assemblage Art see: (http://collagemuseum.com/thinking-box-call-for-works.html) Deadline May 15th ( PARTICIPATE IN THIS ONE TOO!). I thought that, since I was able to secure the university venue, it would be great to invite my fluxfriends to contribute a fluxbox for Fluxhibition #3 and later I will combine the two bodies of box works for an additional exhibit later in 2009 or in 2010. So your Fluxbox contribution will get at least double exposure. SPREAD THE WORD This is rather short notice so I would appreciate it a great deal if you would post the following call on your blogs and/or mail out to your email lists. If you happen to know addresses for some of the old timers, please inform them of this call - maybe we could get some first generation participation. My best to all, Cecil Touchon

http://fluxmuseum.org http://collagemuseum.com http://fluxuslaboratories.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION INTERNATIONAL FLUXHIBITION #3 - Fluxus Boxes, Cases, Kits and Containers by Contemporary Fluxus Artists Call for Works - Deadline: June 30th, 2009 (sooner if possible) No Jury, all works accepted. Fluxhibition #3 will consist of Fluxus Boxes, Kits, Cases and Containers and/or Fluxus Objects (to be placed in containers or boxes by the museum staff for the exhibit). An exhibition will be held in July at The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas. Works contributed will become part of the permanent collection of the FluxMuseum (fluxmuseum.org) and will be used for additional future exhibitions. A catalog will be produced for the show and available for purchase after the exhibit. Additionally, images of all works will become a permanent exhibit on the FluxMuseum web site. What to do: 1) Create a Fluxus box, case, kit or container - use classic themes or come up with something new. 2) Send Fluxboxes, Fluxcases, Fluxcontainers and/or Fluxobjects by June 30th, 2009 3) Come to the show if you can 4) if so inclined, write or contribute a related essay for the catalog 5) When available, buy a catalog of the show. FluxMuseum 6955 Pinon Street Fort Worth, Texas 76116  USA 817-944-4000

     

Happy Shopping: Spam Poetry By Cecil Touchon

Cecil Touchon's poetry in his most recent book, Happy Shopping, is delicious, in the oddest, well, "massurrealist," way. Touchon, a poet-artist, based in Dallas-Texas, extracts material from the very fabric of the massurreality : texts from spam email.

In these poems Touchon offers 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," he explains. "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. And this will make one of the most unusual gifts in 2008 for anyone who owns a credit card, has shopped in LA, has visted the Red Light District in Amsterdam, is named Lindsay Lohan and has an e-mail account.

Touchon offers no easy answer to the issues raised by this deluge of raw data but rather seems to revel in it suggesting that even the most inane material holds the possibility of artistic expression. Order Happy Shopping NOW!

“WHAT IS THIS MASSUREALITY?”

Cecil says:

"We all live in a great Massurreality. It is the world that we, as humans have self created through our use of media. When we watch TV, listen to the radio, read a book or news paper, go to a church, a school or an art museum, when we dabble on the internet or read any sign along the highway as we sit in our vehicles we are absorbing our minds in a humo-centric reality that stand apart from the natural world. In this mental construct we have an identity. It is a borrowed identity, an identity given to us by way of name, by way of race, by way of socio-economic standing, by way of our education, our religion, our occupation, our buying habits. Each of us proudly occupies a place in a variety of demographic parameters. This is our massurrealist identity, our place in the great Massurreality."

Happy Shopping - Massurrealist Spam Poetry by Cecil Touchon; ISBN: 978-0-6151-8244-5 Publisher: Ontological Museum Publications; Rights Owner: Cecil Touchon; Copyright: © 2007 Ontological Museum Publications Standard Copyright License; Language: English; Country: United States; Edition: First Edition