{"id":5627,"date":"2017-02-24T01:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T06:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2017-05-28T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:12:21","slug":"musicality-of-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/musicality-of-the-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicality of the Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5628\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-2.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil-Touchon-Video-2\" width=\"700\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-2.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-2-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-2-600x321.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-2-560x299.jpg 560w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-2-260x139.jpg 260w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-2-160x85.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>COLLAGE ON VIDEO<\/p>\n<h2>Video Explores the Process of Cecil Touchon<\/h2>\n<p><em>Musicality of the Eye<\/em> focuses on the principles of musicality behind Cecil Touchon&#8217;s artwork. The founder and director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Touchon is known internationally for his collage. The video shows images of Touchon at work and pans of his studio, with a voice over by\u00a0the artist describing his process. &#8220;He collects the papers he uses in his works from second-hand shops, flea markets and antique stores, as well as street posters and road side billboard paper. Touchon has also been working on an art project using the concept of the museum as art genre, and has archived over twenty thousand works of art from artists all over the world over the last twenty years,&#8221; the video&#8217;s description explains. &#8220;Cecil Touchon&#8217;s art and ideas have been influential on countless other artists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/188420077\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/188420077\">Musicality of the Eye &#8211; Cecil Touchon<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user42335243\">Noor-un-Nisa Visual Media<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/kolaj-13\/\"><em>Kolaj<\/em> #13<\/a>, Cecil Touchon recalls how a discussion in 1987 between three art students became an internet-driven, democratic, art museum focused on collage in the article \u201cPost-Dogmatic Collecting: The naissance of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/international-museum-of-collage\/\">MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5629\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil-Touchon-Video-1\" width=\"700\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-1-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-1-600x332.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-1-560x310.jpg 560w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-1-260x144.jpg 260w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-1-160x88.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLLAGE ON VIDEO Video Explores the Process of Cecil Touchon Musicality of the Eye focuses on the principles of musicality behind Cecil Touchon&#8217;s artwork. The founder and director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, in Santa Fe,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/musicality-of-the-eye\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-content","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cecil-Touchon-Video-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-1sL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7306,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/paper-cecil-touchon\/","url_meta":{"origin":5627,"position":0},"title":"Paper: Cecil Touchon","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"24 July 2018","format":"gallery","excerpt":"COLLAGE ON VIDEO Paper: Cecil Touchon video by Nisa Touchon \"I am a paper person. 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