New paintings & multi-media visions by Carlito Dalceggio, featuring Mercan Dede. 29 avril @ the Magic Theater, Montreal.

Michael Pukac’s unique blend of seductive, classical imagery is cross-pollinated with a witty, contemporary edge of subtle satire – all doused in reflective paint.

This Alabama born and Los Angeles based artist has quickly established himself as one of the more prolific live painters as well as made a name for himself by exhibiting constantly and relentlessly throughout the LA art community.

Michael has participated in over four dozen art shows, starting from the age of 19, with close to a dozen solo exhibitions, and holds a BFA from Ringling School of Art & Design. He has live painted at events by the MOCA Contemporaries, Thinkspace Gallery, Create Fixate, the Downtown LAArtwalk, Lucent Lamour, MoonTribe, The King King, Club Nokia, Area 33, Montalban Theater, and Cannibal Flower. He has exhibited with Thinkspace Gallery, The Hive Gallery, The CAVE Gallery, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Melt Gallery, 01 Gallery, BoxEight Studios, and more.

The Codega Group is pleased to present Michael at many of our live shows.

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“Painting with the modesty of a dervish and the excitement of a poet, Carlito Dalceggio, who paints the world of sound with color.”
– Mercan Dede

Artist Statement

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.

Every painting is a key, a window to the inner world:

To live a mystic life in the modern world

Eroticism, freedom, seeking for new ways

I paint an imaginary mythology, in a constant research of new forms, new techniques and new medias.

From the ancient calligraphy, seeking for a new iconography, an alchemic and modern wedding of sacred iconography with vernacular symbols of consumerism, giving new senses to archetypes. It is the deconstruction of the known world to rebuild a free world. Art = Science and intuition.

Art is a multi-media existence laboratory; the exchange and collaborations between artists of different medias push the limits and create a new language. Technology becomes a tool for the concretization of the vision. I always want to gather strong opposite creative souls from different cultures together (Secret Silk Society: a creative laboratory of research to bring back mysticism into modern life).

Tribal art, street art, guerilla art influenced, and propaganda, spreading the vision out of the gallery walls: posters, walls, films, happenings… My art is a bridge to the consciousness of humanity, where communication is vital, open. A channel. My art is an imaginary propaganda for an unknown kingdom, a parallel universe outside reality.

With my extensive painting travels and live performances, I provoke the encounter with the viewer at the moment of creation, transforming the ritual of creation. Painting is a liberating act for the artist and also for the viewer. Transforming the vision into reality should be a tactile and emotional experience for the viewer. A sensual relation with the medium, an emotion.

I paint Labyrinths of dreams and visions. I rewrite myths and legends. I capture their essence to transmit an invisible but tactile knowledge. I am a Descendant of the Avant-garde and cobra movements: art without limits, everywhere at every moment. Expression of the irrational. A fragile balance between excess and purity: art as a way of life, constant ritual. Only in chaos can really exist freedom.

I paint the images we should dream of at night: before we were contaminated by modern life. My Art is a pure intuitive and spontaneous way of expression.

The desire to paint all objects of the daily life is to bring art to a higher level, in a constant interaction with our daily life; to bring beauty at all moments, to uplift the human existence.

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