December 2004, the tsunami hits the shores of India. The country is paralysed. While travelling India on a motorcycle, Chris Balzac finds himself stuck in a remote fishermen village in the north of Goa. Writer, musician and photographer, he wanted for quite some time to experiment new fields of creation : exotic vehicles.

After the shock of the tsunami, and still on stand by in this little village he starts to decorate his Royal Enfield Motorcycle with the help of a master craftsman using the ancestral technique of gold coating. To perfect this piece of art, Chris imagined a helmet decorated with Hindu Gods…

Back in Paris, while working on redesigning a De Lorean motorcar, he is constantly approached by people wanting to buy his helmet...

GOACHIC HAND PAINTING
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Exhibition "Riding the roads of india"
by Chris Balzac

 

In January 2008 Chris decides to start the production of a new helmet prototype in India for an art exhibition. The success is instantaneous: the helmets are showed to few boutiques in the Marais in Paris, where they are eagerly awaited to be displayed in the showcases...

After one and a half year of intense development to unite the best of technology & handicraft, GOACHIC UNIQUE HELMETS received homologation for Europe & America and GOACHIC range of products are ready to be launched.

Influenced by the vision of Andy Warhol, this serial art production is the logical result of Chris Balzac perception of art, artists and handicraft.

For the last 10 years, with passion and patience, Chris has learned how to work with Indian craftsmen. Project after project he created a solid network of more than a hundred of the finest craftsmen, inheritors of the oldest technics used in Eternal India masterpieces...

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