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| New Pagosa Museum Opening Tomorrow |
| Bill Hudson | 3/9/12 |
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Museum director Cecil Touchon has been looking for a space for his Ontological Museum collection for many years now. He recently found that space in Downtown Pagosa Springs, in the Towne Terrace, 262 Pagosa Street — just west of the Pagosa Baking Company.
The new museum will hold its grand opening tomorrow, Saturday, March 10, from 5-7pm.
I had a chance to sit with Cecil — an old friend of mine, who recently moved back to Pagosa after a lengthy exile in Fort Worth, TX — and we talked about the first exhibition at the Museum. Cecil officially refers to the new space as "The International Museum of Collage and Assembage" — a "wing" of the much larger and somewhat-less-physically-existent Ontological Museum.
The initial show is called "Assemblings" and is based on a thirty-year-old movement among artists internationally, wherein artists from various countries mail multiple editions of small artworks to a central "publisher" and those artworks are assembled into multiple (and basically identical) "boxes" or containers, and then distributed to the participating artists and to various international "archives."
Museum director Cecil Touchon, left, and artist Keith Buchholz review a "Flux Case" in New York in 2010. Photos courtesy Cecil Touchon. |
The movement is a reaction, says Cecil, to a museum and gallery establishment that "values" only the works of certain "big name" artists — as defined by the tastes of the very wealthiest (one percent?) of art collectors worldwide. This establishment essentially leaves 99 percent of the world's working artists "out of the system" in spite of the obvious talent of those same artists. The "Assemblings" show at the new Pagosa museum will celebrate many of those talented, but unrecognized, working artists that Cecil has been collecting through his Ontological Museum project.
 The public is welcome to view the show, starting tomorrow at 5pm. Admission to the opening event is free. |
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