MEXICO CITY.- For the exhibition IDo Not Scream For An Audience, I Shout At The Holy, Canadian artist, Carlito Dalceggio, presents a series of rebel, multidisciplinary, profoundly spiritual and symbolic artworks. Butterfly wings, kites, peacock feathers, masks, organic motifs that remind us of Mexican popular art with a peculiar reminiscence of Picasso’s cubism, Rauschenberg’s abstract expressionism and Matisse’s primitivism. The explosion of color, the energetic compositions and the liberating gesture of the strokes awaken the senses, the instincts and the imagination. The pieces made by Carlito Dalceggio invite us to explore the hidden folds of our existence, to undertake a journey to the center of our own selves.
Through pictures, sounds and smells, the viewer is immersed in a mystical and liberating atmosphere where rivalries between light and darkness, noise and silence, order and chaos, are reconciled. IDo Not Scream For An Audience, I Shout At The Holy opens a poetic and sensual door through which primal energies, the forces of nature and the irrational flow; a channel through which we can access other forms of knowledge. This constitutes a world where the boundaries between artistic disciplines are diluted, ancestral cultures are celebrated and metaphors of transformation are created, both through technique and iconography. Dalceggio reminds us of the bohemians that Balzac and Baudelaire spoke of; those characters with a wandering, nostalgic and cheerful existence, in search of social regeneration; romantic revolutionaries against the system. It is all about escaping from conformity, which is why this exhibition is not conceived as a mise-en-scène to merely entertain an audience, but as a ritual, a cry - of one and all - to liberate our spirits.
Carlito Dalceggio was born in Quebec, Canada in 1971. He was introduced to the art world by his father, who painted as a hobby. Carlito began to paint professionally at the age of 18, after a night of love with a special muse. Later, he got a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design from the University of Quebec in Montreal. At 19, he founded Organic Fresh Heroes,with David Pelletier, and together they organized happenings, parties and art exhibitions in Montreal and Europe, including a happening at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal.
After closing that cycle, Carlito began to travel around the world to learn the art of other cultures, from Mauritania to Morocco, Bali, Mexico and Thailand. He created paintings and murals in those places, living a gypsy existence. In 1999, he founded Circo de Bakuza,a collective and “laboratory of existence” of artists based on the alchemic fusion of contemporary art and other forms of art and culture. With this circus, he created major events for Just for Laughs Festival,the world premiere Galas for Cirque du Soleil and many other special events.
Simultaneously, he started to collaborate in several sculpture projects with his father, and on many films with different directors, always focused on spreading his vision through various mediums. In between travels, he installed his studio in different cities: Montreal, Mexico City, Bali, New York and Paris, creating a bohemian spirit with local artists, accumulating collaborations in art, fashion, circus arts, photography, literature and film. Every city has provided him with an intense period of painting.
In 2003 he started to exhibit his work in art galleries and fairs, in order to reach a larger audience. He has been commissioned to create large-scale pieces for international companies such as Cirque du Soleil and L’Oréal Canada, as well as restaurants and clubs throughout the globe.
He recently founded a new art group, Secret Silk Society,with several artists from all over the world, looking for a new iconography with a revolutionary consciousness. He is also an active member of MU,a non-profit organization which supports and promotes public art in the greater Montreal region, whose mission is both artistic and social, as the project involves creating murals within and for local communities.
