Bauçan

Bauçan, poet of images, music and words was born in Montreal, in 1968. Self-taught, he left college to dedicate himself to his art. In his twenties, he founded with Luc Courchesne the art regroupement « Le Cénacle de l’Étendard », who publish poetry books. He wrote and published there two books as well as participated in many collective work with other poets that have been published as well. Between readings of poetry, he recorded an album under an independent label and produced a short-cut movie "Le chat a fait de moi un oiseau" with first actor Éric Francoeur and for cameraman Jean Cotonnec. Eager for adventure, he explore the Baffin Island and hitch hiked across Canada. At 24 years old, during his first trip to Europe, his paintings were exhibited at an art gallery in Pont-Aven, Britanny (the same town where Gauguin lived). His painting was exhibit at the Art Expo in New York, Paris, Brussels, Bordeaux, Nantes, Chicago, Texas, Toronto, Calgary, Dinard (France), Nice, Brest, Toulouse, Cologne (Germany), Kyoto (Japan), Montreal, Canada… We can see his paintings in many Tv show and also movies like in the movie ‘Behind borders’ with Angelina Jolie. At 26 years old he invented and constructed a 35mm antique looking photo camera, made out of paper. After having sold his invention to the Wrebbit company, he traveled during 3 years, from Czech Republic to North Africa. After living and paint during more then 10 years in Thailand, he move to live in China...

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