Arbre de la Paix (2010) Installation by Patrice Bucher

Patrice Domenico BUCHER Born in Alsace in April 1954 He is 56 years old but does not have much any more of teeth to have too much bitten the life by the two ends. It is married in Brigitte, hir partner with the scene as at the city: large collector of its fabrics. Actor, poet, illusionnist, musician, singer, and anarchist it passes his adolescence between the FAC of right, the painting of gouaches, the new writing of poèmes/de and songs, and the bohemian life artistic. He sings in the subway in London, the coffees, the street, the discotheques…. frequent of the literary living rooms, painted on the walls in Alsace (and finds in cell the tags not being yet a form of art) then launches out in the abstract on tended silk. After having created an agency of pub and having bourlingué 25 years in the show business, it goes back to paint on fabric, toilet paper, rubber, not trimmed boards and square of earthenware and all that falls to him under the hand. RETURN ON IMAGE In March 1972 left its first book poems “A heart and to fist” published on account editor at POESIA and illustrated 4 gouaches the author. This book will be worth to him the praises of the “New Arts persons”. It will regularly publish texts in various Parisian reviews, of the news in the Lame Messenger of Strasbourg,… Author and type-setter of more than 150 French songs with text, Patrice BUCHER records in June 1973 in Karlsruhe in Germany one 45 turns which will be classified 3rd with the Hit-parade of SüdWestFunk (important German radio equivalent to Radio Nostalgia) with 2 titles: Billy the Kid and Blue Fleur. It then connects the rounds in discotheques and rooms of spectacles with its manager Jacques d' Allos in particular in the west of France. Since 1980 Patrice Bucher conceives and puts in scene under the pseudonym of Alan ALTAI several numbers of magic which it will present without interruption during 25 years on all the scenes of France and Europe. The escape from the strait jacket or its famous number or it reveals and to disappear from fire on scene made it famous in the professional environments of the magic to France. It publishes a book of popularization of the magic as well as a cassette of its conference “the dynamics of success in magic of scene” At the same time leaves to the Magix editions an audio cassette entitled “To overcome the trac” where it recorded for the artists a meeting of car hypnosis intended to help them in this problem which it knows well. In 1996 and following an order it composes in its home studio, AZERTY FOR ATLANTIS: 8 titles intended to be offered to the customers of I.T.L. : a large agency of marketing. In 1997 it signs the B.O of the greatest image of the world (Guiness) realized with balloons of color (2500 000 balloons) and diffused throughout the 3 days and at the time of the take-off of the image. The same year it composes “Reincarnations”: a title which appears in an electronic anthology of music published by an association of Parisian p...

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1954
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists