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This exhibition of collages by Cecil Touchon
covers an early period of Touchon's collage making from 1984 to 1986.
Many of these works contain snippets
of canned good labels; maps; grids; solid, various colored geometric shapes
reminicent of buildings seen from above; drips of paint transformed into
island clusters; transparent mylar (geometric clouds maybe?), letters both
printed and written in various scales,
There is a play on the
notion of an airial view of archetectral structures, such as a malls
sitting on a parking lots, or drawings of streets being plotted out, or
bits of maps and other topographical signs and indicators. This reveals
a preoccupation with the notion of mapping - perhaps a mental or historical
mapping - and the abstract representation of space and objects contained
within it.
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