Canvas magazine's Issue 120, The Traces Left, carried a profile of Franco-Tunisian artist Béchir Boussandel, born in 1984 in Dunkirk, tracing his practice back to childhood summers in Bizerte, his parents' hometown on the Tunisian coast. The piece follows him from his training at Dunkirk's École des Beaux-Arts between 2004 and 2009, where he cites Yves Klein and Mark Rothko as early touchstones, to his current rooftop studio in Bizerte.
Rawaa Talass details his method of immersing canvas in water before applying acrylic pigment and letting wind and light finish the composition, which he calls a combination of chance and skill; works discussed include Terre Brulée and Premiere à eclairé la nuit, both from 2024, alongside the earlier Le Balayeur (2022). The profile also covers his move into sculpture, describing the glass vessels of Tenté par d'autres soleils (Tempted by Other Suns), cast from plastic bottles collected in Tunisia and shown at Tabari Artspace in Dubai in 2025, some topped with cast aluminium or copper birds.
Positioned as a specialist survey rather than a news item, the Canvas feature gives collectors a single account of how Boussandel's painting and glass strands connect, running from his Tunis roots through to his Tabari Artspace representation in Dubai.
