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A torrent of creative dynamism, The
Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader comes at you in three waves: asemic
overwriting of print, usually on antique pages; the elegant typographic
collages for which Touchon is best known; and layered linear screens that seem
to exist in a receding space. Through these variations, the book challenges us
to rethink in depth our conceptions of surface, a thinking accompanied by
wordless pleasure.
—Peter Schwenger, author of Asemic: The Art Of Writing
Touchon’s
Asemic Reader is an important and inspiring book, and it calls to all schools
of thought. The invitation here is to experience new
dimensions of the present
moment. Touchon’s captivating letter play and use of asemic writing makes him a
true explorer of the invisible script.
—Sam
Roxas-Chua 姚,
author of Echolalia in Script (Orison
Books), and Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater (Lithic
Press)
The three
layers/styles which build this book are as different as the reader or viewer’s
reactions and observations which the layers imply & help create.
The first series of works deals with an intriguing enigmatic silhouette, a shape
and idea of time past. The calligraphic lines or typographic erasures
or
deleted music notes tell us intricate stories and talk to our perception
according to the antiquity of the paper they’re written on.
The second series shows broken letters, cut ones, like in a labyrinthine
re-/de-organization of a stray alphabet of imagination.
These well known and
highly appreciated works by Cecil Touchon proudly belong to a tradition one can
maybe connect to the names of Adriano Spatola
and Edwin Schlossberg.
A third little series introduces the viewer
to an even wider range of codes, involving abstract movements of curls, curved
signs, naturally evolving
from the previous pages, as to mark a fascinating
link between the fragmented alphabet letters and numbers, and a liquid set of
traces impossible to grasp,
yet still grasping our eyes.
—Marco Giovenale,
author of GLITCHASEMICS (forthcoming from Post-Asemic Press)
