He designed Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà’s last album cover but who is he?
Born in 1971, “with a pencil in his hand,” Ca
rlito Dalceggio was introduced to art by his father, who was painting as a hobby. He started to paint more seriously at 18 and started to show his paintings in various industrial alternative spaces.
Though he holds a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from UQÀM, he spent half of his studies designing nightclubs in Europe and, at 19, founded the ORGANIC FRESH HEROES, his first art group with David Pelletier and made several happenings, parties, and exhibitions in Montreal and in Europe, completing the cycle by a giant happening at Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal. He then started extended travels all over the world to learn art in the tradition of all cultures, from Mauritania, to Morocco, to Bali, Mexico and Thailand, creating on location hundreds of paintings and murals.
In 1999, he founded CIRCO DE BAKUZA, with which he created giant events for the Just for Laughs Festival, world premiere Galas for Cirque du Soleil and many more special events. He also collaborated in several sculpture projects with his father and on many films with different directors. For 10 years, he created an independent distribution system for his paintings. Only in 2003 has he started to present his work in art galleries and art fairs, in order to reach a wider audience.
He has created large-scale pieces for international headquarters of companies such as Cirque du Soleil and L’Oréal Canada, as well as restaurants and clubs throughout the globe.
His artistic statement starts with the following few sentences:
“By the act of painting, I transcend my human state. I search for other ways. I seek for a universal pattern, the ultimate strokes of freedom. I reach a visionary state and totally leave reality to give shape to another world.
I breathe to paint, I paint to breathe.
Art does not try to reproduce nature, art is nature.”
To find out more about the artist and see projects, sketches, read excerpts from his diaries, click here…